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Subj: RE:KB2VXA's Historically Corect
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From: VE3WBZ@VE3LSR.#SCON.ON.CAN.NOAM
To : MOVIES@WW
TO: MOVIES @WW
FR: VE3WBZ
DT: Friday, January 25th.,2013 @ 1007hrs EST <JPST>
Hello Warren and all, reading;
<< Quoting KB2VXA to MOVIES @WW >>
> From : KB2VXA To : MOVIES@WW
> Type/Status : B$ Date/Time : 22-Jan 19:51
> Bid : 33066_VK6ZRT Message # : 83355
> Title : Re: VE3WBZ > Historically correct
> Thanks for the explanation, now I have a point of reference.
> I didn't know about Admiral Nelson skipping cannon balls and
> of course he didn't, frankly I have no idea it would even be
> possible. Balls were fired at the hull and chain shot at the
> rigging... SOP.
I forget where I first head that one, on the Dam Buster idea,
but I suspect it lingered over from WW2, just in case a spy
was listening, and the information would throw, to say a
spanner into the works.
Where this idea may have come from is naval gunnery school which
is an old ship moored near the naval college, and the great
thing is when tide is out, there are mudflats, and spent balls
maybe recovered, and if a gun was fired, I guess the shot
would bounce along. But there is NO written account of this
cannon ball bouncing during the battle with Napoleon's fleet.
Great naval myth.
> Considering the shape of the depth charge a back spin had to be
> used to increase the relative velocity so it wouldn't sink
> prematurely. The interesting bit was the motorized assembly that
> spun it prior to release, that was another thing that had to be
> worked out, the RPM had to be just right, too fast and it would
> have smashed against the dam.
I had somewhere the dam buster bomb, found by Germany, and when
they tried, they flew the tail off the test plane, thus dropped
the program. Now, if they had salvaged the Lancaster, they
would have seen the motorized assembly that put the spin on
prior to release, and had it. Can not figure out , why
they didn't?
> Right, coastal Yorkshire was another hotbed of black market
> activity and they used the same false lights to lure ships to
> their doom. That reminds me of a modern shipweck in the same
> area where containers washed ashore and were promptly looted.
> Oh boy, look at all the goodies! Hey fella hands off, that
> motor scooter is MINE! Yeah, I saw the video.
>
> 73 de Warren
>
>Message timed by NIST: 19:22 on 2013-Jan-22 GMT
>
> [End of Message #83355 from KB2VXA]
Still think the Yorkshiremen did it better, as there was more
traffic there, and more rocks, and well some of the coastal
areas have their hidden places too.
The other news video was that motorbike that floated all the way
from Japan.
Time to prepare the dinner for tonight. Hmmm maybe fish tonight?
73 Pete VE3WBZ
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