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The sloops' official sub-20-knot speed kept them within the London treaty definition, while comparisons with later classes raise questions about how much performance their machinery could actually yield.
From Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 10 ·
HMS Stork entered service as an unarmed survey vessel, but the availability of her planned weapons allowed the Royal Navy to convert the specialized peacetime hull quickly when war began.
From Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 10 ·
The Bitterns prioritized merchant and fleet-auxiliary escort, anti-aircraft defence, and anti-submarine warfare while omitting the torpedoes that would have made them look like disguised destroyers.
From Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 10 ·
The Navy divided minesweeping and anti-submarine roles among different sloop groups, then used exercises and command appointments to prepare officers for another submarine campaign.
From Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 10 ·
HMS Shikari gave the Royal Navy a general-purpose command in which to assess Frederic John 'Johnny' Walker before directing him through Falmouth and Stork to the modified Black Swan HMS Starling.
From Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 10 ·
Bomb damage off Namsos did not immediately sink HMS Bittern; her crew abandoned a badly damaged but still floating ship before HMS Janus torpedoed her to prevent capture.
From Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 10 ·
A reported oil leak and uncertainty over ammunition remaining aboard HMS Bittern show why diving and managing a sunken warship demands more caution than exploring an ordinary wreck.
From Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 10 ·
Bittern's six four-inch guns were usually counted as anti-aircraft armament, but their mountings could depress enough to make them useful against small surface targets as well.
From Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 10 ·
Enchantress's destruction of the Italian submarine Corallo and Stork's part in four confirmed U-boat sinkings show what the Bittern design could achieve in Atlantic and Mediterranean escort service.
From Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 10 ·
The closing counterfactual asks how other powers might have reacted if Britain had used the London treaty to build about nine inexpensive, sub-20-knot, 1,200-ton sloops each year from 1930.
From Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 10 ·
The First World War Flower-class sloops were true war emergency ships, while the better-known Second World War Flower-class corvettes were planned before the war as quick-build escorts.
From Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 10 ·
Why Mussolini's early entry into the war denied the Regia Marina three years intended for a more coherent buildup.
From What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940? ·
The Red Sea base possessed floating dry docks and promising infrastructure, but lacked the spare parts, fuel, and stores needed for sustained combat.
From What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940? ·
British planners could often wait for isolated Italian forces to exhaust their supplies instead of paying to defeat them immediately.
From What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940? ·
Eight submarines, nine destroyers, motor torpedo boats, and auxiliaries appeared capable of making the Red Sea a major operational problem.
From What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940? ·
A look at senior command relationships and the decision to prolong resistance after Massawa had lost supply and relief prospects.
From What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940? ·
The Sauro- and Leone-class ships offered speed, maneuverability, and heavy torpedo attacks despite their age and limited suitability against strong cruisers.
From What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940? ·
The Red Sea submarines included genuine ocean-going capability, but four boats were lost while four survivors escaped around Africa.
From What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940? ·
Forced to surface against a sloop and destroyers, Torricelli fought on while a crewman's sacrifice helped 31 sailors escape the sinking boat.
From What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940? ·
Battery damage forced Galileo Galilei to the surface, where the converted trawler Moonstone proved the steadier gun platform.
From What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940? ·
One submarine and most of the local MAS boats were lost through mechanical failure, exposing the human cost of an unsupported deployment.
From What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940? ·
MAS 213 badly damaged the C-class cruiser HMS Cape Town, then was scuttled two days later as the Italian position collapsed.
From What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940? ·
Italian plans and support ships faced a Royal Navy already organized to defend worldwide trade against dispersed raiders.
From What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940? ·
Submarines, destroyers, aircraft, and torpedo boats were meant to disrupt the Red Sea route and strain British forces around Alexandria and Suez.
From What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940? ·
The Italian disruption plan gained a plausible sustainment route only if North Africa and East Africa could be connected across difficult desert terrain.
From What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940? ·
Galileo Galilei's slow, inaccurate surface fire shows how conserving machinery and components can erode a crew's combat proficiency.
From What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940? ·
The Red Sea deployment projected Italian power into the Indian Ocean, yet even minor damage could mission-kill ships that had no replacement stores.
From What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940? ·
Cruisers, destroyers, and sloops committed against the Italian position could otherwise have strengthened British operations elsewhere.
From What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940? ·
The Red Sea commitment may have withheld specialist sloops and K-class destroyers from early-war carrier hunting groups such as HMS Courageous's patrol.
From What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940? ·
Destroyers, torpedo boats, auxiliaries, fuel, and trained crews lost in East Africa might have contributed more to Mediterranean convoy operations.
From What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940? ·
The video closes by asking what Italian naval command should have done after learning in January 1940 that entry into the war was imminent.
From What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940? ·
HMS Nelson and HMS Northampton enlarged the Royal Navy's armoured-cruiser concept to provide capable flagships for overseas squadrons.
From HMS Nelson(1876): bad sound ·
Northampton's advanced adjustable steam cylinders disappointed, while Nelson achieved the better trial speed with a more dependable twin-engine, twin-shaft arrangement.
From HMS Nelson(1876): bad sound ·
Nelson's central battery offered broadside and end-on fire, while the hull emphasized stability and the resilience needed for years of overseas service.
From HMS Nelson(1876): bad sound ·
Separating peacetime duties from combat power risks funding many restricted utility vessels while allowing true warships to disappear from the fleet.
From HMS Nelson(1876): bad sound ·
Nelson had to support an admiral's command and correspondence as well as fight, at a time when Royal Navy staffs were still becoming formal institutions.
From HMS Nelson(1876): bad sound ·
Tryon and Fairfax used Nelson's capabilities to argue for a stronger Australia Squadron, helping establish a line of development toward the Royal Australian Navy.
From HMS Nelson(1876): bad sound ·
The ship combined 10-inch and 9-inch rifled muzzle-loaders with lighter 20-pounders, twin shafts, and a substantial armor belt.
From HMS Nelson(1876): bad sound ·
Limited telegraph communication made Nelson a contingency vessel whose admiral and squadron needed the capacity to handle complex overseas problems locally.
From HMS Nelson(1876): bad sound ·
Nelson marks the cruiser replacing the ship-of-the-line or battleship as the more affordable and sustainable flagship for complex global missions.
From HMS Nelson(1876): bad sound ·
The closing design problem asks how much hull volume should serve weapons, command and support systems, crew welfare, and peacetime contingencies.
From HMS Nelson(1876): bad sound ·
The introduction presents Henning von Holtzendorff as the reluctant architect of a submarine campaign meant to besiege Britain when Germany had few other routes to victory.
From Henning Von Holtzendorff & Unrestricted Submarine Warfare ·
Holtzendorff's career explains why he was an unusual advocate of submarine warfare: he had opposed Tirpitz's naval competition with Britain.
From Henning Von Holtzendorff & Unrestricted Submarine Warfare ·
Holtzendorff returned in 1915 to lead an Imperial Navy divided among competing offices, after earlier submarine advocates had failed to settle the strategic debate.
From Henning Von Holtzendorff & Unrestricted Submarine Warfare ·
Holtzendorff's alternative to the Risk Fleet was a strong German navy and army built to complement Britain while avoiding direct naval competition.
From Henning Von Holtzendorff & Unrestricted Submarine Warfare ·
Britain might have supported a reliable German partner because both states had reasons to contain Russian expansion and preserve a trading order in which Germany could prosper.
From Henning Von Holtzendorff & Unrestricted Submarine Warfare ·
The strategic object of unrestricted submarine warfare was to reverse Britain's pressure on Germany by cutting an island economy off from seaborne trade.
From Henning Von Holtzendorff & Unrestricted Submarine Warfare ·
Holtzendorff's December 1916 case rested on merchant tonnage, grain routes, and the claim that only an unrestricted campaign could force a decision.
From Henning Von Holtzendorff & Unrestricted Submarine Warfare ·