I definitely saw this but can't remember many details. Help me.

rubberduck · 19 Jul 2017 at 22:43

I'm 99.99% sure it must be HMS Bismarck

Efour · 19 Jul 2017 at 22:48

99% sure its BS

v0n · 20 Jul 2017 at 00:02

Here's three WWII factoids that should rise you eyebrow.

- Many ships, (including Titanic sister ship Britanic) used dazzle razzle camouflage. Look it up, war movies won't show you that.
- In the final year of the WWII, Nazi Germany's fleet of only jet fighter planes (you read it right, JET fighter planes) was bigger than the entire number of aircrafts Britain managed to mobilise during Battle of Britain. Yet somehow they barely managed to use any of them.
- Despite common misconception, Adolf had blue eyes.

Enjoy

rubberduck · 20 Jul 2017 at 00:07

v0n said:
Here's three WWII factoids that should rise you eyebrow.
- In the final year of the WWII, Nazi Germany's fleet of only jet fighter planes (you read it right, JET fighter planes) was bigger than the entire number of aircrafts Britain managed to mobilise during Battle of Britain. Yet somehow they barely managed to use any of them.
Enjoy

I am no war guru but I would expect this was due to lack of trained pilots,

Mr Badger · 20 Jul 2017 at 00:11

rubberduck said:
I am no war guru but I would expect this was due to lack of trained pilots,

Plus the Germans were short of fuel, the jets required a lot of maintenance (such as regular engine changes) and the allies were able to destroy a lot of them on the ground.

Bluecube · 20 Jul 2017 at 06:54

With regards to the OP, I'm not aware of any such ships existing in the WW2 period. Sound more like a WW1 era experiment.

Malevolence · 20 Jul 2017 at 07:04

You're not thinking of the Erebus or Marshall Ney class monitors are you?

Erebus class

Marshall Ney class

bainbridge · 20 Jul 2017 at 08:14

v0n said:
Here's three WWII factoids that should rise you eyebrow.

- Many ships, (including Titanic sister ship Britanic) used dazzle razzle camouflage. Look it up, war movies won't show you that.
- In the final year of the WWII, Nazi Germany's fleet of only jet fighter planes (you read it right, JET fighter planes) was bigger than the entire number of aircrafts Britain managed to mobilise during Battle of Britain. Yet somehow they barely managed to use any of them.
- Despite common misconception, Adolf had blue eyes.

Enjoy

Wasn't the sister ship of the Titanic called the Olympic?

Boycey0211 · 20 Jul 2017 at 08:25

Mr Badger said:
Plus the Germans were short of fuel, the jets required a lot of maintenance (such as regular engine changes) and the allies were able to destroy a lot of them on the ground.

Correct. Allied non-stop bombing of production facilities and oil refineries meant they were virtually useless. The amount of crazy yet tangible projects that were stopped due to the bombing was unreal, it could have been so much different had they managed to get some of their more feasible projects up and running

Dis86 · 20 Jul 2017 at 08:31

bainbridge said:
Wasn't the sister ship of the Titanic called the Olympic?

She had two.

wolfie138 · 20 Jul 2017 at 08:36

robfosters said:
The Mary Rose sank because of too many heavy guns.

not really though.

ubersonic · 20 Jul 2017 at 08:37

bainbridge said:
Wasn't the sister ship of the Titanic called the Olympic?

There were three Olympic class liners. Olympic, Titanic and Britannic.

v0n · 20 Jul 2017 at 09:14

Nelson class had three 16-inch turrets forward of the bridge and nothing behind, according to some books it couldn't fire the front two guns (simultaneously) within 30 degrees of the bow or it would put the stern under and sink.

Jean-F · 20 Jul 2017 at 11:11

ubersonic said:
There were three Olympic class liners. Olympic, Titanic and Britannic.

According to Wiki, the Olympic was built in 1911, Titanic, 1912, and Britannic 1914, so at the time of the sinking, 1912, Titanic would have had just one "sister" ship.
If this wasn't in question, I apologise.

Dis86 · 20 Jul 2017 at 11:18

Jean-F said:
According to Wiki, the Olympic was built in 1911, Titanic, 1912, and Britannic 1914, so at the time of the sinking, 1912, Titanic would have had just one "sister" ship.
If this wasn't in question, I apologise.

Without hitting the old wiki my recollection is that all three had started construction.

ubersonic · 20 Jul 2017 at 11:35

Jean-F said:
According to Wiki, the Olympic was built in 1911, Titanic, 1912, and Britannic 1914, so at the time of the sinking, 1912, Titanic would have had just one "sister" ship.

That's when the ships were launched into service, at the time the Titanic sunk Britannic was already well into construction, it would have launched into service in 1913 had it not been for the Titanic disaster.

robfosters · 20 Jul 2017 at 12:06

Jean-F said:
According to Wiki, the Olympic was built in 1911, Titanic, 1912, and Britannic 1914, so at the time of the sinking, 1912, Titanic would have had just one "sister" ship.
If this wasn't in question, I apologise.

It was a brave person who went on the Britannics maiden voyage!

Dis86 · 20 Jul 2017 at 12:19

robfosters said:
It was a brave person who went on the Britannics maiden voyage!

I believe it was quite heavily modified!

wesley · 20 Jul 2017 at 12:29

Can I have some whatever you are smoking

adolf hamster · 20 Jul 2017 at 13:19

Dis86 said:
I believe it was quite heavily modified!

didn't stop it from striking disaster in ww1 when serving as a hospital ship a mine struck her and in the ensuing panic (after the titanic? wonder why) people prematurely launched the lifeboats, only to be minced by the prop as it raised out of the water.

it was modified, but the disaster highlighted the need for better procedure for evacuations of that nature (ie don't abandon ship until the captain says so)