Post by warspite1 on Jan 21, 2024 23:29:57 GMT
I have been following Mike Brady for about a year on his Oceanliner Designs YouTube pages. Informative and with superb CGI and graphics he looks at merchant shipping of all ages including highly detailed Titanic material. All good general maritime stuff.
However, he is branching out into naval rather than merchant now with one and a quarter hours (just published) on the Battle of North Cape otherwise known as the sinking of the KM Scharnhorst:
YouTube link
The 'lucky' Scharnhorst had already sunk HMS Rawalpindi and HMS Glorious in earlier actions but the ship's luck ran out with a northern twilight attempt at attacking a convoy to the Soviet Union. In a running battle with cruisers she was found and damaged twice while all the time the 14-inch gunned HMS Duke of York was bearing down on her.
Scharnorst nearly got away from DoY when DoY suffered radar damage but RN blindfire, as the range opened, sent one or more 14-inch projectiles slicing into her engine rooms and her speed fell rapidly.
Some of the best graphics I have seen and well worth a watch. Not mentioned is the fact that the Norwegian navy has now located the wreck and found it upside down in relatively shallow waters with some 60 metres blown off around the two forward turrets. It would appear the two forward magazines exploded at some point.
A Warspite recommended watch!
Barry
However, he is branching out into naval rather than merchant now with one and a quarter hours (just published) on the Battle of North Cape otherwise known as the sinking of the KM Scharnhorst:
YouTube link
The 'lucky' Scharnhorst had already sunk HMS Rawalpindi and HMS Glorious in earlier actions but the ship's luck ran out with a northern twilight attempt at attacking a convoy to the Soviet Union. In a running battle with cruisers she was found and damaged twice while all the time the 14-inch gunned HMS Duke of York was bearing down on her.
Scharnorst nearly got away from DoY when DoY suffered radar damage but RN blindfire, as the range opened, sent one or more 14-inch projectiles slicing into her engine rooms and her speed fell rapidly.
Some of the best graphics I have seen and well worth a watch. Not mentioned is the fact that the Norwegian navy has now located the wreck and found it upside down in relatively shallow waters with some 60 metres blown off around the two forward turrets. It would appear the two forward magazines exploded at some point.
A Warspite recommended watch!
Barry
