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1/350 Admiral Graf Spee

JohnA

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Ik dacht dat dit een model was die onvolledig de verhuizingen doorgekomen was, maar misschien ook niet . Spue's lijken volledig, voor zover ze moeten zijn. Het dek is zo te zien met de airbrush gespoten, dus uit betere tijden. Zal morgen controleren of er iets ontbreekt, maar denk het niet.
 
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Dat wordt boeiend, er komt activiteit in de scheepsbranche!
 
Mooi schip en hoop dat hij nog volledig is en je eraan begint.
Succes alvast.
 
The Admiral Graf
Spee
*
Robert Grey Reynolds
Jr.
*
Smashwords Edition
2015
*
The British Naval ships
H.M.S. Exeter, H.M.S. Achilles and H.M.S. Ajax discredited a
pre-World War II basic naval law when they collectively crippled
the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee on December 17,
1939. Specifically, the theory states that gun power, and not the
number of ships, determines the winner.
Had the theory been
correct the Graf Spee’s 11-inch guns, which enabled it to fire
shells a distance of seventeen miles, would have defeated the three
British cruisers. Their guns had ranges of fourteen miles and eight
and a half miles.
The naval textbooks
explains that the Graf Spee would disable its adversaries at long
range. The cruisers would simply not be capable of getting near
enough to the German ship to shell it.
However
in this battle the British cruisers toppled the theory through
conducting a hit and run fight. The superior speed of the British
ships enabled them to dart in and out of smoke screens like dogs striking at a
bear. Together they
drove the Nazi battleship to seek cover.
The Admiral Graf Spee was
a 10,000 ton ship with six 11-inch guns that fired 670 pound
shells. The German ship’s range was 17 miles. The H.M.S. Exeter was
an 8,390 ton ship with six 8-inch guns. Its guns fired 256 pound
shells, with a 14 mile range. The H.M.S. Achilles weighed 7,030
tons. Its eight 6-inch guns fired 100 pound shells, with a range of
8 and half miles. The H.M.S. Ajax also weighed 7,030 tons. Like the
Achilles it had 6 inch guns that fired 100 pound shells with an
identical range of 8.5 miles. The shells of the Graf Spee and its
hunters were made of armor plate.
The Admiral Graf Spee was
named after one of Germany’s greatest naval heroes, Maximilian
Johannes Maria Hubertus, Reichsgraf von Spee (Admiral Graf Count
Von Spee, 1861-1914). Graf von Spee was born in Copenhagen,
Denmark. He joined the Imperial German Navy in 1878. He earned the
rank of Konteradmiral by 1910. In 1913 von Spee ascended to the
rank of Vizeadmiral. At the outbreak of the First World War Graf
von Spee became commander of the East Asia Cruiser Squadron. It was
based in Tsingtau, China.
When war
erupted his squadron was ordered to return to Germany. Figure 1 Admiral von Spee
The warships under Spee’s
command were the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Nurnberg, Dresden and
Leipzig. All of them made for home.
Admiral
Spee lost his life near Montevideo, the sight of the destruction of
the pocket battleship that was named after him. He had engaged
a vastly
superior British
squadron.This engagement had occurred near the Falkland Islands off
the coast of Argentina.
Admiral Spee went down
with his flagship, the Scharnhorst, after the Germans were defeated
in a noteworthy naval battle. The Gneisenau, Leipzig and Nurnberg
were all sunk after they had incurred heavy losses. Admiral Spee’s
two sons died on the Gneisenau and Nurnberg.
Von Spee commanded eight
ships and they were regularly involved in hit and run assaults. The
eight ships were involved in two noteworthy sea battles. The
cruiser Dreaden was the sole German ship to escape the
conflict.
Only a
month earlier Spee had defeated the British in the naval battle of
Coronel off the Chilean coast. He defeated Rear-Admiral Sir
Christopher Kit
George Francis Maurice Cradock
(July 2, 1862-November 1, 1914), destroying the HMS Good Hope and
HMS Monmouth. Cradock lost his life along with 1,570 of his
sailors.
The end for Spee came
after the German squadron left Valpariso, Chile where it had
stopped to refuel. Spee’s ships had survived for some time during
World War I largely due to the antiquated communication and means
of detection that were being used in 1914.
The Admiral Graf Spee was
the newest of Nazi Germany’s three famed pocket battleships. It was
completed at Wilhelmshaven on June 1, 1936 at a cost of
$18,750,000. This building cost was reported by Jane’s Fighting
Ships.
The
warship class was the most powerful for its tonnage that was ever
built. Germany resorted to building pocket battleships after its
government was restricted by the Versailles Treaty from
constructing battleships of full size. Germany hoped to
build super cruisers
that were capable of outrunning battleships. These warships would carry guns that were
of sufficient weight to outshoot any adversary ship that they could
not outrun.
 
Als ik me goed herinner is hier ook een film van gemaakt.
 

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