Yamato at Jutland
Placed in the NavFic Board since it concerns time travel, but what would the commanders of the Final Sortie Task Force (Yamato, Yahagi, 8 DDs) do if their force was sent back in time to a location...
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Since this is the Final Sortie Yamato from April 1945 the Admiral may seize the opportunity to tell his younger self of the coming destruction of Japan in 1945. Then the choice for Japan is either to...
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One aspect of this, even if Yamato were to fade back into the mists after meeting up with the RN Grand Fleet, is the effect on the British. Imagine, this little third-rate power that most of them look...
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How about the first sighting being that between Beatty's BCS and the Yamato. Working on the premise that because the Yamato is not one of ours and therefore must be one of theirs, presumably the...
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jim 1 wrote:One aspect of this, even if Yamato were to fade back into the mists after meeting up with the RN Grand Fleet, is the effect on the British. Imagine, this little third-rate power that most...
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Steve - I have several sources, or had. IIRC, one was Richard Hough's _Dreadnought_ in which he describes briefly the controversy Kongo's construction caused. The RN and HMG types took reporters down...
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Tiger/Kongo Theres been a spirited debate on which design pre-dated the other though the last I read was it was concurrent. The Kongo had increased elevation on its main guns as well - 25deg....
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Ian - What convinced me was that the Cats were supposed to be a 4-ship class all of one design, like what happened for all other RN classes (Indy's, QEs, RS, KGV, Orions, etc). So, why didn't they?...
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jim1 Tiger also had 6in secondaries which probably added some considerable weight. I imagine some cribbing in the drawing office(s) went on. I think there were significant armor differences as well...
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jim1 I have looked at all my reference material. Neither my Roberts 'Battlecruisers' or Burts WW1 mention much in the way of Kongo in any 'Tiger' description. 'Kongo' was laid down 17-18 months BEFORE...
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Ian - Indeed, yes! Hough recounts the anecdote of RN/HMG types trying to show off a Cat under construction, only for the reporters to look aghast at bigger Kongo in the very next spot and ask, WTF is...
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Back to the original topic from 8 months ago. :P I'm assuming it would depend on whether. a) The Japanese realise *when* they are before running into a combatant from either side b) The Japanese run...
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Don't forget about submarines. With the number of submarines in the North Sea, I would not be surprised if some U-boat captain spots the Yamato, and immediately tries to sink it to prevent it from...
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Zeppelin. I can imagine some Zeppelin radioing base that a ship somewhat bigger than he was has just been spotted, and then trying to get out of the way. Maybe try a bombing run. Ian
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To StevoJH A real puzzler. Britain will almost certainly try to assist the Japanese because of being allies and would be ignorant of the future. I don't think the Yamato's crew would want to give...
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Who would seem like a Neutral to a late WW2 Japanese commander? Sweden, Spain or Portugal? Sweden is out, no way anyone would want to be bottled up in the Baltic, esp with that big of ship....
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Neutral Port I do agree very unlikely. My view is that once the situation is evaluated, (which will take time - there are no newspapers or radio news broadcasts to listen to, none in morse code either...
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rematog wrote:Who would seem like a Neutral to a late WW2 Japanese commander? Sweden, Spain or Portugal? Sweden is out, no way anyone would want to be bottled up in the Baltic, esp with that big of...
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Porugal did not join until 1917. And Sweden has seaboard on the North Sea coast too ... Borys
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