Marek Tucan
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Joined: 6/1/2000 From: Kladno, Czech Republic Status: offline
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Who won more battles? Hard to tell, since only a few battles took place... And... For example the Jutland was a german tactical victory (they have sunk few battlecruisers - hence the British continued to build them, look how ended the Hood, generally British lost much more ships and men), but British strategical victory (the blockade wasn`t broken)... I think that the victory`s clear at Coronel (British lost - two obsolete versus two modern cruisers, the germans had more guns with longer range), Falklands (Germans lost - the force from Coronel stood against two battlecruisers and i think four cruisers - only one German ship managed to escape), Dogger Bank (British won, Germans lost one cruiser - British bad cooperation caused they have concentrated fire on this one German ship and let the rest flee), Gallipoli (British and French lost, tried to get to the Istanbul, but suffered heavy loses from mines and they had not enough initiative to send minesweepers under fire support of the battleships)... And few other smaller incidents - the German fleet acted mostly as the Fleet-in-being. Btw when it seemed that there will occur a battle in the Mediterranean (The French and British prepared a trap for the Austrian navy), but the admirals forgot to tell the MTB commanders - one led by Cpt. Rizzo had attacked and sunk the dreadnought Szent Istvan and the Austrian navy retreated too soon. How did they defeated the U-boots? With the convoys - if you compare the size of a lone ship and a convoy to the ocean, there is very little difference - that is, if ships from convoy sail all alone on their own, it is more probable the U-boat will find at least one ship - see what happened to PQ17 during WWII.
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