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Andy_Ross said:
They were already hiding them. After Bismarck they hid them even more. The capital ships were doomed if they came out.
Even if they got in to the Atlantic undetected, after hitting a convoy or two their presence would be known and fate sealed.

Scharnhorst and Gneisenau broke out twice. The first time they attacked a convoy but the armed merchant Cruiser Rawalpindi sacrificed herself to cover the convoy scattering, then they away when HMS Manchester appeared then they were chased away by the battleship HMS Renown that hit Gneisenau destroying A turret and the bridge superstructure.

Second time they sorties together they found a convoy of empties and sank three before running when the battleship HMS Ramillies showed up. Then they got in to a scattering convoy and sank a few ships before running from HMS Rodney.

After that Gneisenau never came out again and was bombed to pieces.

Scharnhorst was sunk by HMS Duke of York when it tried to sortie against a convoy in the Arctic.

Neither of them got their planned 1940 upgrade from the 11 inch guns they were completed with to 15 inch.

Tirpitz never sortied at all and was sunk in a Fjord.

The aircraft carrier was never completed.

The full fleet plan (Plan Z), to be completed by 1948 was cut short by Hitler starting the war early. It proposed a fleet centered on ten battleships and four aircraft carriers which were intended to battle the Royal Navy and French Marine nationale.
15 Panzerschiffe raiders (Graff Spee was one of the three they completed) were supposed to range across the globe sinking shipping projected by the Battleships and Carriers as they came and went from German ports.

Altogether over 700 ships were planned.

It was completely delusional.
At the start of the war the RN had 15 battleships in service with another 5 commissioned by the end of 1942. There were three Lion class laid down but construction of them suspended and plans for others scrapped in favour of carriers and escorts.
France had 8 in service with teo almost completed at the outbreak.

Even if delayed until 1948 the German Capital fleet would still only be half the size of the RN as built on its own.

When German plans and construction switched to U- Boats they couldn't build enough anyway. Dönitz's fleet did not reach the 300 boats he thought necessary to win a commerce war against Britain until 1943. By then the U-boats had been defeated.
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More importantly, Britain had seven aircraft carriers at the start of the war with more being commissioned. It was a carrier based aircraft that doomed the Bismarck.

In fact I would say this

Andy_Ross said:
1941
Admiral Tovey's Battleships HMS Rodney and King George The Fifth intercepted and sank the Bismarck.
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is misleading. Rodney and KGV would never have caught up with Bismarck if a torpedo hadn't jammed her rudder. The interception was the result of the work of a lot more ships and crews than just Rodney and Bismarck.
 
jeremyp said:
More importantly, Britain had seven aircraft carriers at the start of the war with more being commissioned. It was a carrier based aircraft that doomed the Bismarck.

In fact I would say this


is misleading. Rodney and KGV would never have caught up with Bismarck if a torpedo hadn't jammed her rudder. The interception was the result of the work of a lot more ships and crews than just Rodney and Bismarck.
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But it needed Rodney and KGV to do the job.

Carrier aircraft didn't have the striking power that they gained later in the war.
Don't forget the damage done to Bismarck already by the three hits from Prince Of Wales.

An underwater hit passed through the ship's bow and contaminated the Bismarck's forward fuel tanks with seawater. This forced the ship to list and slow down. Another penetrated the boiler rooms, causing a loss of speed.

As it happens Drachinifel has just posted a video on the damage to Bismarck

 
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1943: Norman Rockwell’s iconic ‘Rosie the Riveter’ first appeared on the cover of ‘The Saturday Evening Post.’


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1855 RoyalNavy Lt’s Cecil Buckley & Hugh Burgoyne from HM Ships MIRANDA & SWALLOW, with Gunner John Robarts from HMS ARDENT landed ashore and destroyed 73 Russian Vessels, stores and provisions during Crimean War under heavy fire.
All three survived their mission and all received the Victoria Cross.
 
TDIH for May 30th

1431
Joan of Arc is burned at the stake for heresy

1593
Playwright Christopher Marlowe killed in tavern brawl

1806
Future president Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel

1868
Civil War dead honored on Decoration Day

1883
A rumour starts a stampede on the Brooklyn Bridge (New York City, New York USA)

1899
Bandit Pearl Hart holds up an Arizona stagecoach

1911
First Indianapolis 500 held

1913
The First Balkan War ends

1922
Former President Taft dedicates Lincoln Memorial

1934
Nissan Motor Company founded

1942
Japanese American Fred Korematsu is arrested for resisting internment

1943
Auschwitz gets a new doctor: the Angel of Death

1967
Republic of Biafra proclaimed

1967
One Hundred Years of Solitude is published

1971
Mariner 9 departs for Mars

1990
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Washington for a summit

1997
Jonathan Levin is tortured and killed by his former student
 
TDIH for May 31st

1819
Poet Walt Whitman, author of Leaves of Grass, is born

1859
Big Ben rings out over London for the first time

1889
Over 2,000 die in the Johnstown Flood

1902
The Boer War ends in South Africa

1916
Battle of Jutland, greatest naval battle of WWI, begins

1920
The Sacco-Vanzetti case draws national attention

1921
Tulsa Race Massacre begins

1925
The last dispatch from a doomed Mato Grasso expedition received (Mato Grasso, Brazil)

1929
Ford Motor Company signs agreement with Soviet Union

1930
Actor and director Clint Eastwood is born

1962
Architect of the Holocaust hanged in Israel

1964
Convicted murderer Charles Schmid brags about his crimes

1977
The BBC bans the Sex Pistols' God Save the Queen

1982
Alleged Chessie sighting (Chesapeake Bay, Maryland USA)

1996
Benjamin Netanyahu elected prime minister of Israel

2005
Identity of Deep Throat, source who helped unravel the Watergate scandal, is revealed
 
Here's a recap of events for the month of MAY that are strange, mysterious, and/or related to the unexplained:


MAY 01 1897
Louisa, the wife of Adolph Louis Luetgert, was last seen alive (Chicago, Illinois USA)


MAY 02 1933
Loch Ness Monster sighted for the first time, igniting the modern legend


MAY 03 1943
Roy Hall witnesses the inside of a tornado (McKinney, Texas USA)


MAY 05 1786
A great quantity of black eggs fell (Port-au-Prince, Haiti)


MAY 06 1897
Alleged UFO sighting (Hot Springs, Arkansas USA)


MAY 08 1373
Visions Of The Devil (Lady Julian, Norwich, England, First Of Two Nights)


MAY 09 1373
Visions Of The Devil (Lady Julian, Norwich, England, Second Of Two Nights)


MAY 11 1894
A gopher turtle, encased in ice, fell (Bovina, Mississippi USA)


MAY 11 1950
The first well-attested UFO photo was taken (McMinnville, Oregon USA)


MAY 12 1951
Frieda Langer's body was discovered today (Long Trail, Vermont USA)


MAY 13 1917
Miracle of Fátima, (Fátima, Portugal)


MAY 14 1976
Strange, tailless creature with reddish fur spotted (Chunshuya, Hubei Province, China)


MAY 15 1970
Edward and Stephania Andrews mysteriously disappear (Chicago, Illinois USA)


MAY 17 1552
Strange stuff from the sky (Dordrecht, Holland)


MAY 19 1969
George Kaiser reported seeing a strange figure (Rising Sun, Indiana USA)


MAY 20 1937
Amelia Earhart begins her ill-fated around the world flight (Oakland, California USA)


MAY 21 1969
Donald Crowhurst disappears during a round-the-world race (Pacific Ocean)


MAY 22 1979
David Booth dreams of a fiery plane crash. Three days later... (Cincinnati, Ohio USA)


MAY 23 1966
The alleged haunting of Haw Branch Plantation (Amelia, Virginia USA)


MAY 25 1979
David Booth's dream comes true (Chicago, Illinois USA)


MAY 26 1828
Mysterious teenage boy, Caspar Hauser, appears (Nuremburg, Germany)


MAY 28 1881
Snails and other small shellfish fall from the sky (Worcester, England)


MAY 28 1982
Money falling from the sky (Redding, England)


MAY 30 1883
A rumour starts a stampede on the Brooklyn Bridge (New York City, New York USA)


MAY 31 1925
The last dispatch from a doomed Mato Grasso expedition received (Mato Grasso, Brazil)


MAY 31 1982
Alleged Chessie sighting (Chesapeake Bay, Maryland USA)
 
 
 
The following is about the Black Panther sighting I mentioned above and is also from my website:


JUN-02-1963 (SUN)​


LOCATION:
near Champaign County, Illinois USA

WHAT HAPPENED:
A black panther is spotted today in 1963 by Bill Chambers while driving near his farm in Champaign County, Illinois.

Why is this such a big deal? The following explanation is from my source:

...The animal known popularly as the panther, mountain lion, cougar, and Puma and scientifically as Felis concolor, was driven into extinction everywhere (except for a small population in Forida's Everglades) east of the Rocky Mountains in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
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Moreover, such animals are not prone to melanism, a condition caused by an overabundance of melanin pigment resulting in black hair in mammals...
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Thus, the above incident is more extraordinary than it seems.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Pages 28-37 from Strange and Unexplained Physical Phenomena

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arthwollipot said:
Demonstrate otherwise.
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I have links on my website, and there have been other sightings.

This is not an isolated incident.

Here's a good place to start:

fantasticwildlife.com

Black Panther (Wild Animal Sightings & Facts) - Fantastic Wildlife

Black Panther is a name given to very dark, big cats, especially leopards and jaguars; black panthers are a melanistic colour variant of the leopard (Panthera pardus) and the jaguar (Panthera onca). There have been confirmed sightings of the black panther in Sub-Sahara Africa, India, Nepal, Sri...
fantasticwildlife.com fantasticwildlife.com

This is the book I got the info from (argue with them):

Pages 28-37 from Strange and Unexplained Physical Phenomena
 
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AmyStrange said:
I have links on my website, and there have been other sightings.

This is not an isolated incident.

Here's a good place to start:

fantasticwildlife.com

Black Panther (Wild Animal Sightings & Facts) - Fantastic Wildlife

Black Panther is a name given to very dark, big cats, especially leopards and jaguars; black panthers are a melanistic colour variant of the leopard (Panthera pardus) and the jaguar (Panthera onca). There have been confirmed sightings of the black panther in Sub-Sahara Africa, India, Nepal, Sri...
fantasticwildlife.com fantasticwildlife.com
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People have seen Jesus on toast. Do you find that equally reliable?
 
Steve said:
People have seen Jesus on toast. Do you find that equally reliable?
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I think they see an image, and to them, it's a miracle.

I don't think JC is running around putting images of himself on toast.

I wasn't there, so who knows for sure.

JC might just turn out to be the ultimate prankster.
 
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TDIH for June 3rd

1754
Lieutenant Colonel George Washington builds Fort Necessity

1800
President John Adams moves into a tavern in Washington D.C.

1864
Union disaster at Cold Harbor

1915
Austro-German forces attack Russians at Przemysl

1916
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs National Defense Act

1936
Western author Larry McMurtry is born

1937
Duke of Windsor weds American socialite

1940
Germans bomb Paris, killing hundreds of civilians

1943
Zoot Suit Riots begin in Los Angeles

1956
Rock 'n' roll is banned in Santa Cruz, California

1965
First American astronaut walks in space

1968
Dr. and Mrs. Gerardo Vidal get lost in a fog (Argentina and Mexico City, Mexico)

1989
Crackdown at Tiananmen begins

2010
Joran van der Sloot arrested for murder in South America

2017
Terrorists attack London Bridge
 
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