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05-23-08, 11:17 PM | #1 |
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A question about The Enemy Below
I love this movie and have seen it several times,when the captain of the Haines says he could be pulled into a fight with a German raider,is he reffering to a Hansa Class ship?
He says that it could out gun and out run his Buckley Class DD,I know it is just a movie,but was just curious if this is true and is he reffering to a Hansa or something else...thanks
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05-24-08, 04:03 AM | #2 |
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I guess he refers to a german raider like "Graf Spee" or "Admiral Sheer" - so called pocketbattleships of the German Kriegsmarine. No match for a DD.
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05-24-08, 04:28 AM | #3 |
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commerce raiders
Even the commerce raiders e.g. ATLANTIS had a very strong armament of 6-8 6'' guns and several torpedo tubes. These could also tie down a BUCKLEY class DE (or CANNON which is the correct in ENEMY BELOW). Remember that KORMORAN sunk the Australian light cruiser HMAS PERTH (if I remember well the name!).
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05-24-08, 06:53 AM | #6 |
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Sunk just out of Perth, so not too bad a guess.
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05-24-08, 10:59 AM | #7 |
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Robert Mitchem says about the U-Boat from the intel message "RVing with German Raider "S", "Q" or "M"." which makes me think its a merchant converson and not a normal warship. IE they only know it exists not its name or specifics.
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05-25-08, 01:02 AM | #9 |
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It looks like the Armed Forces State Flag used by the German military in 1933.
http://flagspot.net/flags/de1933.html Admiral Scheer was launched in April 1933, which would fit the time frame for the flag. On the other hand she wasn't commissioned until November 1934, so in '33 I wouldn't think she would have been that 'finished'.
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05-26-08, 04:21 PM | #10 |
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Thanks all for the info,ive wondered about that for quite a while
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