[Freiwillige]

Yea I kind of whondered if I should not have posted all of the names of those lost but my excitment of sinking the Royal Oak was tempered by the research that followed that mission. After all there are 3 Martins on that ship and I am a Martin. Kinda strikes close to home if you know what I mean. A very sombre feeling.

Here's to those who were lost.

[quote]"He told me that the old World War I "battlewagon" was nothing more than a floating barracks, too antiquated to put to sea and that the majority of those that died on board were new, green ratings."

I beleive she was sea worthy and was out with the fleet right before the incedent.
Also Had Prein been to Scapa a few days earlier he would have caught the majority of the northern fleet at anchor. A great what if scenario.

I found out that she had just been out to sea looking for the Scharnhorst early oktober but her sea speed of less than 20 kts was holding up the fleet and also she was battered by the winter storms and was in bad shape when she returned to scapa.