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    2. Here is a more detailed account of that battle (same source) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n69kV4gVoDw&t=8s

      P.S. Hood was world’s greatest battleship (yes battleship not battlecruiser :P) when entering service but had been long overdue for refit when sunk.

      P.P.S. Bismark was extremely overrated.

      Let the flame war begin. /ducks for cover/

      1. Battle of the Denmark Strait starts at approximately 20:00. The most fascinating part of the video is reference to hydrophones picking up torpedoes at presumably from HMS Hood at 41:58.

      2. Curious. What is your definition of battleship vs battlecruiser?

        BS has 14” guns?

        BC has less than 14” but greater than 8”?

        1. By the time of the Hood’s completion, Royal Navy nomenclature for “battlecruiser” was based on speed. Previous Royal Navy battlecruisers, (Renown class and earlier) did have significantly thinner armor belts than their dreadnought equivalents. On various groups on Facebook, the Hood is generally regarded as having a superior armor scheme to the Queen Elizabeth Class battleships. Hood’s main armor belt was between 6″ and 12″. The Japanese Kongo class battlecruisers had a main belt thickness of between 3″ & 8″ even after being rebuilt and were reclassified as Fast Battleships by the Imperial Japanese Navy.

        2. It is not single line answer. Invincible was the first battlecruiser except that she was not originally called a battlecruiser. She and her sisters were originally called “Dreadnought armed cruiser”. They were meant to be cruiser killers. That was the mission statement. This would be a first definition. They were meant to replace armoured cruisers and they made all armoured cruisers obsolete the same way Dreadnought made all pre Dreadnoughts obsolete. This idea worked perfectly once at Falklands and sort of worked at Dogger Bank. Then Germans run out of armoured cruisers that could be used with the fleet and so much for the first definition.

          The second definition relies on design characteristics. A British battlecruiser had guns in the same caliber as contemporary battleships. Invincibles had guns of Dreadnought, Splendid Cats had guns of Iron Duke, Renowns had guns of QE and R class. But they typically had one turret less. They also has much weaker armor and much greater speed. Of course that changed from design to design but just like battleships were gradually getting faster so were the battlecruisers (armour improved from Invincibles to Cats but then got weaker on Renowns). Until Hood. Hood essentially combined the firepower and armor of QE battleship with the speed of Renown. Hence she was world’s first fast battleship about two decades before the competition.

          German battlecruisers were somewhat different (Blucher was the first dreadnought armed cruiser – first definition) but after that from VdT to Hindenburg they followed the same relative formula as British, so same caliber guns one less turret, cruiser speed, less protection. Except that protection on German battlecruisers was stronger than on British while guns were weaker. Who else had battlecruisers? For Japanese the same distinction in terms of firepower, armour and speed is present when comparing Kongo battlecruisers (based on HMS Lion) and Ise and Fuso battleship applies. Again the same distinction applies to proposed US Lexingtons and planned contemporary battleships of South Dakota class.

    3. The Hood was 47 feet longer and 5,000 tonnes heavier than the Bismark. The Bismark had 8 15 inch guns to the Hoods 4. It was an even match.

      1. The Hood was accompanied by HMS PRince of Wales, two heavy cruisers, and several destroyers. The only escort Bismarck had was the heavy cruiser Prinz eugen.

        1. Hood was only accompanied by PoW, no destroyers were present and cruisers got in range only after Hood was sunk. Both British ships sailed into the wind and tried to close the distance to protect Hood’s thin deck armour from plunging fire. That meant that Brits would use only forward batteries on both ships while Germans fired full broadsides. So you had four 15 inch guns on Hood and six (then five then four) 14 inch guns on PoW vs eight 15 inch guns on Bismarck and eight 8 inch guns on PE. And since British were sailing into the waves their primary fire directors and rangefinders were sprayed with water and they had to rely on secondary smaller and less accurate back ups.

          PoW (that drew first blood in that engagement also critically crippled Bismarck) still had dockyard crew on board and was not battle ready. Three of her guns (two forward and one aft) jammed as a result of her own fire. Despite that and despite sailing into the waves her gunnery was excellent, Hood’s gunnery was abysmal. Admiralty made an error and not committed KGV and Victorious with Hood and PoW.

          Holland IMO made a mistake and should have lead with much better protected PoW. Still it wasn’t the famously thin by modern WWII standards deck that vaporized Hood. It seems to be a freak shell that hit just at the right angle, just in the right spot when Hood was making her last turn.

        2. Here is an interesting bit: throughout most of the engagement Hood kept firing on PE while PoW was firing at Bismarck. This happened because Hood misidentified the German ships and assumed that the lead ship would be Bismarck. So why was PE leading Bismarck? Because in an earlier management when Bismarck fired on British cruisers she has knocked out her own forward radar with her own first salvo. Just one of many examples of bad design present on Bismarck.

      1. That is seriously cool. The other fascinating bit of Hood trivia is that Jon Pertwee of Dr. Who fame served on HMS Hood.

        1. No Colonista, he got transferred off HMS Hood just before her last mission to go for officer training. (No Tardis required to get him off beforehand.)

    2. If Trudeau see these “beat whitey” Videos he’ll send the Youth a map to Roxham Road with a million dollar suitcase of money waiting for him.

    3. After 30 years of Liberal Prime Ministers et al calling white Canadians racist at the drop of a hat for political advantage, it’s not too big of a stretch to think that:

      1. Sadly, lots of visible minorities will actually believe the decades long lying Liberal political doublespeak
      2. They will act on that repressed anger and resentment eventually, most likely when you are elderly and most vulnerable
      3. that video is the future your Liberal Party wants for you.

      Latest poll?

      Native born Canadians – Liberals – 35
      -Cons -32

      Non-native born – Libs – 54
      – Cons – 27

      It’s working.

      People are voting for the same shit they had in the shitholes they left and the Kardashians are one of the top shows on TV.
      It’s all over but the crying.
      Hard to decide whether to learn Mandarin or Murrican.

  3. Well, hey. Venus by shocking blue was nostalgic and ok, but one tin soldier goes in my trash heap of purged bad transistor radio past…hokay!? Really….gawd!

    1. It was used over the closing credits of that dreadful movie Billy Jack. And, yes, I agree–the song’s horrid.

    2. What’s really odd is that so many tunes of the 70’s were marketed as … “disco” … yet I have no idea why? Because rockers were wearing skin tight pants, or black leather jackets with gigantic lapels ? Any band with sequined shirts were “disco”?

      Here is a fairly rocking “disco”? tune? By a band with a disco-Sounding name … mandatory cut STILL in anyone’s “traveling mix”

      https://youtu.be/Sm1q1XoN_Qo

      Why, yes … I do have this on original state pristine 1970’s vinyl … and spin it regularly.

      1. mandatory cut STILL in anyone’s “traveling mix”

        I’m sure it was among the songs that were played at some of the undergrad keg parties I attended.

    3. One Tin Soldier … and Terry Jack’s; “Seasons in the Sun” … make me want to thrust knitting needles in my ears … uggh. I think the two songs share a similar musical structure – schmaltz.

      1. Terry Jack’s; “Seasons in the Sun”

        Cringe-inducing, to say the least. If you think that’s horrid, try and listen to Nana Mouskouri’s rendition of it. That pretty much destroyed her credibility with me.

      2. Kenjio…
        “…make me want to thrust knitting needles in my ears..”
        That would have been “Bridge over Troubled waters”..
        To this day, cannot stand that song…cant tell ya why, I don’t really know, but I cant stand it..LOL.

        1. Feelings, which was a sudsy, though inexplicable, hit in the mid-1970s similarly drives me up the wall. Similarly, It Never Rains (In Southern California) and anything by Barry Manilow.

          1. How about the vomit inducing ‘Sometimes when we Touch’ by Dan Hill. Did he have another hit?

          2. ABT:

            Actually, he did: Growing Up, though it wasn’t as popular as the song he’s best known for. I recall it was on the charts in late 1975.

    1. Well, I would think one would not have to look far to find the left’s favourite bad boys.
      I’m putting my money on ANTIFA.

  6. Re: Venus by Shocking Blues.

    That’s the song that Gillette features for ”Venus” ads. Imagine the cash that song has generated.

    1. This what happens when mass hysteria and insanity are driven by government policy. Millions of fools think this is OK. Too bad they can’t be among the first to starve or go hungry.

    2. On CTV Montreal News, which I get on cable, I saw an article about a farmer near Montreal who recently held a sale of potatoes and cabbage (50 lbs for $15 each) at his farm due to local restaurants being shut down. The stuff went like hot cakes.

      On local radio I heard of a restaurant/casino selling eggs (30 for $5) because they were told the date of resuming business was postponed here in Calgary.

      In the meantime the California lettuce here in Calgary is around $1.99, to $2.49 or $ 2.99 a head on a regular basis, depending on which type.

      On May 20th I paid $10.07 for about .765 kg of deliciously sweet (at least) plump California cherries. Price was $13.16/kg. (I must be crazy)  (that’s only 1.687 lbs)

      I guess we consumers can’t get a break in prices. Too much trouble with issues of the packaging. Uh-huh.

      And some large farmers are plowing over cabbage and lettuce? Very sad, indeed. Cabbage is not perishable. We are still eating last year’s crops, at least for cabbage, potatoes, rutabagas, turnip, parsnips and carrots. Beans were destroyed. They can be sent away to be frozen. Gas is cheap. I don’t get it.

      These farm subsidies don’t make sense, either.

    1. During the mid-1980s, that song and Venus were back on the charts as cover versions, but neither recording had the same raw energy as the original releases.

      Well, as we used to say in industry, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

  9. One hit is impressive, a lot more than most bands. Hats off to them.

    1. Do people remember the parody of the “K-tel man” on the SCTV comedy show? I think Dave Thomas did it, but I am not sure. The gag was that the K-tel announcer, in the commercials, spoke in rapid fire diction. In the parody, the K-tel man talked the way he did iin the commercials, n his everyday life.

          2. Kenji:

            In my opinion, any song by BSM is dreadful. Greatly over-rated as a singer.

  14. CNN is outraged that after evil Trump refused to wear a mask, he went golfing. Is there no stopping his atrocities? Its a good thing they had a former feminist prime minister from feminist Sweden explain how evil Trump is.

    1. I wonder if Trump sent CNN a head’s up. Bet he did. The man is my kind of evil. The grinnin’ kind.

  15. The CBC and Blackie are celebrating the end of Ramadan. The most important holiday in Canada. Heartwarming speech by Great Leader on how wonderful muslims are in Canada. Celebrate today, and kill a filthy infidel.

    1. The most important holiday in Canada.

      Really? I would have thought that it was December 25 in which we joyously celebrate the birth of our lord and saviour Dear Leader Prinz Dummkopf the Supremely Magnificent (Long May His Wisdom Shine Throughout The Ages).

  16. My father had a story about his taking part in the hunt for the Bismark – while based in Rivers Manitoba! Apparently he was working in the control tower at the air base there, and they picked up several radio transmissions from the Bismark, and got a bearing on it.

  17. Now that Gerald Butts has been brought back to run Canada again, he is on a twitter rampage. He denounces Hitler Harper, then rants that Harper caused the Arctic to be on fire, and Christianity is evil.

  19. The much-celebrated Gerald Butts, former advisor to the Rt. Hon. Justin Trudeau, is on the steering committee for a new lobby group, something called “the Task Force on a Resilient Recovery”:
    https://www.recoverytaskforce.ca/

    The new task force has gotten off on the right foot, garnering a favourable article in the left-wing CBC News web page (authored by Trudeau shoe-shineboy Aaron Wherry). It’s funded by four well-endowed foundations, one of which (the Echo Foundation) is headquartered in the United States. The main thrust of this task force — whose final report is due some time in early summer — is to plan for a green recovery. No non-renewable energy needed nor wanted.

    1. You may remember Buttshead’s comment on camera how an “alternate route” for a pipeline wasn’t needed but an “alternate economy” in which pipelines themselves wouldn’t be.

      His destruction of Ontario was merely practice.

  21. Blackie’s bought and paid for media is excited that the first university in Northern Canada will focus on global warming.

      1. My thought exactly. What are they going to do if the Maunder Minimum causes the climate to go in the opposite direction?

  24. For those who are starting to venture out into the garden this weekend, found this on my travels around the internet:
    “Beginning a Prepper’s SHTF Garden? Avoid the hidden hazards”.
    https://stopshouting.blogspot.com/2016/01/beginning-preppers-shtf-garden-avoid.html
    Interesting stuff and includes a good bit on proper management of manure and compost for those who are new to rural life.
    Also why it’s important to wear gloves when gardening ….. yikes!
    Also they posted new today
    “I know I need a TEOTWAWKI pantry, but where do I start?”
    Interesting discussion on the concept that most people rely on too few calories when deciding how much they need to store.
    https://stopshouting.blogspot.com/2020/05/i-know-i-need-teotwawki-pantry-but.html

  25. “Wanna Stay healthy – Smoke some Sativa…!!”
    Soon to be endorsed by the Reich Minister G. Butts of the “Liberal” (Communist- NAZI take yer pick), party, readying the electorate for another BS election.

    https://calgaryherald.com/cannabis/cannabis-shows-promise-blocking-coronavirus-infection-alberta-researcher/wcm/f9d21bd7-6aae-4193-a81c-83634fa140fe/

    WEXIT pls…

    And amazingly (not), Gasoline went from 79.9 to 92.9 .overnight…. no correlation to Alberta “opening up” right…??

    1. WRT “And amazingly (not), Gasoline went from 79.9 to 92.9 .overnight…. no correlation to Alberta “opening up” right…??”
      Saw that on Friday AM from the back seat of my cab. I have records of oil prices and relevant local gasoline prices going way back. At $50 a bbl (2018 Dec) gas used to be 85 cents. In 2016 at $45 gas was 77 cents, no COVID, economy cranking along.
      As for that “sativa crapola” smoke away dudes, cancer get’s you in the end. That gunk hanging around, coating your ashtray where the butt sits, is in (koff) your lungs. Hork, spit. A Chinah tradition. P’tui. That’s the brown stuff speckling the concrete outside the local high school. Makes an interesting ground pattern, too. Trails off into the parking lot, I wonder……. nah, they’re “good kids”.

  26. And here is one that gives me the absolute chills.

    Remember the “ausweis”…??
    A German Nazi Contrived bit of ID..?? The one without which you could not travel anywhere..?? (still used as a std ID card for German Citizens)

    Here’s the new Version; Cell phone based. without which you will likely could be TOTALLY restricted from doing pretty much anything.
    Work – Driving – Shopping: Think about it….

    https://www.covipass.com/

    1. I’ll just get it tatooed on my arm, thanks. I met some parents who had those in Montreal. Survivors. Polish.

      1. yep….just another version of the Yellow Star of David.
        Kampfs, Train tracks heading N of 60 to follow..

    2. Apparently IBM had a major hand in developing the German system for coding and identifying its citizens in the ’30s. Have a cousin who used to be superior about my spouse’s employment with “big oil” (geologist). The last time we met, got the usual rant and proceeded somewhat to the effect of “your spouse’s company was complicit with the Nazis” (spouse had worked for IBM). Wasn’t received kindly.

  27. Toronto Star explains today that Canadians are racist bastards during this virus outbreak.

  28. Philip J Fournier of 338 Canada on the case for a snap election.
    https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/338canada-the-case-for-a-snap-election/
    When I look at his polling data which indicates the Liberals winning with 200 seats at present, I need to see data on other countries that avoided Covid 19 and their debt/gdp ratio. I think its time to google the state of Tasmania in Australia. I’ve always wanted raise thylacines (the possibly not so extinct Tasmanian Tiger) as a hobby.

  30. This is coming to Canada after the gun ban:

    https://www.rebelnews.com/woman_allegedly_raped_abused_by_grooming_gang_arrested_by_uk_police_after_she_posted_ordeal_online

    I wonder how do the UK cops justify to their wives and children that they cover up muslim rape industry.
    “Darling, I have actually just arrested a girl who had been raped. The beotch subverted the course of justice by saying that”
    “Hey, Daughter, there was a girl your age out there. She claimed to have been raped by a bunch of pakistani men. I have arrested her because no one can be raped by Asians. If you would ever tell me that Asian men abused you, I am going to slap the living crap out of you f_n face!”
    How do they sleep every night? If I had been told by my superiors to cover that up, I would have had no choice but hang myself or go postal at the depot.

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