Danelov,

Thank you for that! An excellent overview.

Perhaps I should look up that Roma sinking, since the details interest me - I've never heard of a battleship being sunk by a Luftwaffe flying bomb.

One final note though. Despite being 25,000 tons and later being refitted to a GRT of 31,000, HMS Repulse was really a battlecruiser and not a battleship. Same goes for HMS Hood but I understand why you listed them here among the battleships: they functioned like battleships during the war and carried almost the same reputation.

Many thanks for this very nice summary!:rock:

Kind regards,

Eichenlaub

Found this in Wikipedia, already knew of the missle and it's history,

The Italian battleship Roma was blown apart after fires started by Fritz X bombs detonated her magazines. The British battleship HMS Warspite at the Salerno landings was hit by three bombs but survived to be repaired and bombard the Atlantic Wall defences in June 1944. Bombs hit the American cruisers USS Philadelphia and Savannah. It sank the British light cruiser HMS Spartan.

Pity we couldn't have guided torpedos!!

Very interesting thread. In the spirit of the Indianapolis correction above and in the interest of strict accuracy, the Graf Spee was not really a battleship. Although it was popularly referred to by the Allies as a "pocket battleship", it would actually be more correctly characterized as an armored cruiser/battle cruiser than a true battleship, which is in keeping with its German designation of "Panzerschiff" (essentially, "armored ship").