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- From: Jeffrey K Ooi <ooi@latcs1.lat.oz.au>
- Subject: Re: Jutland
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- Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:43:49 GMT
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- From Jeffrey K Ooi <ooi@latcs1.lat.oz.au>
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- In article <BxID0D.LAD@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> Charles Meo <cm@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> writes:
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- >From Charles Meo <cm@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
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- >mmzn@rice.edu (Mark Mazina) writes:
- >
- >The whole battle was an accident anyway, because the Germans thought they
- >were taking on just the battlecruiser squadrons and got a very nasty surprise
- >when the rest of the grand Fleet turned up behind them. Similarly, the
- >battlecruisers were never intended to slug it out with the entire German
- >fleet, though they were so pretty everyone thought they could...
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- Not quite an accident, the British knew what was going on...they intercepted
- Hipper's Plans to lure a sizeable British squadron, preferably Beatty's
- and lead it back into a trap set by 16 dreadnoughts and 6 others...quite
- an inconvience. It was the result of this message that prompted the British
- to set an near identical trap by the Grand Fleet - although they didn't tell
- Beatty that!
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- >If an engine of war can be said to be beautiful then those battlecruisers
- >(on both sides) will get my nomination.
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- Beatutiful ...yes! but as far as surviveability goes....well,
- I don't know ... those battlecrusiers took quite a pounding in Jutland
- even the famous 'Lion' almost bought it, give me a dreadnought any day!
- (or if period holds no bounds - a 'Yamato')
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- --
- Jeffrey (George bush) Ooi | Ghostrider, you're instructed to land...
- La Trobe University | Land Immediately! What're you doin' Mav?
- Australia | We ain't got no fuel for this...
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