05-31-08, 10:36 AM
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Chief of the Boat
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Originally Posted by darius359au
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Originally Posted by August
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Originally Posted by CCIP
It's still a mystery why the lifeboats weren't launched, but they certainly never were - and were found on the bottom next to the ship.
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Wouldn't launching lifeboats require orders from the Captain? With all that damage to the bridge maybe there wasn't anyone able to give the order or they were'nt given until it was too late. |
The hypothosis from the Finding Sydney Foundation from the evidence they found in the dives on wrecks ,and from the German survivor staements , is when they unmasked the first shots took out the bridge and firecontrol, so the guns ended up being fought by the individual gun crews so there was no real effective return fire, (Still enough to severly damage Kormoran and cause her captain to abbandon ship and have her scuttled though), At the sametime Kormorans main guns were trying to kill sydney her light guns (20mm and 30mm) were sweeping the decks and structure to stop Sydney's crew from reaching their lighter guns.
The big killer though was the Torpedoe that hit just foreward of A turret , from what they can work out it seems the damage was more catastrophic than the crew though , after the ships disengaged and started sailing away ,Sydneys crew would have still have been trying to save the ship But it appears the Bow snapped off , flooding and sinking her within seconds and catching the crew at their damage control stations. |
Well I can and will certainly subscribe to that 
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