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- From: parkhill <parkhill@email.sp.paramax.com>
- Subject: Re: Jutland
- Message-ID: <Bzo8D2.BFE@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: Paramax - Eagan, MN
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:24:38 GMT
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- From parkhill <parkhill@email.sp.paramax.com>
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- > >Speaking of Dreadnoughts - where was the Mother of all Dreadnoughts
- > >(sorry - couldn't resist 9-) ) - HMS Dreadnought - when all this was
- > >taking place? She wasn't that old - 9 years or so if I remember right.
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- > In May of '16, the 3rd BS under Admiral Bradford; including all the pre-
- > _Dreadnoughts_, plus the _Dreadnought_ herself; was in the Thames Approaches.
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- >From page 17 text from _Jutland an Analysis of the Fighting_ by John
- Campbell describing why certain ships were not available for the
- battle:
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- "..The Austrailia of the 2nd BCS, was also absent as a result of a
- colision with the New Zealand in thick fog on 22 April, while the
- Dreadnought was refitting and on completion would join the 3rd
- BS, ceasing to belong to the Grand Fleet."
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- Jutland: An analysis of the fighting, N J M Campbell,
- Naval Institute Press, 1987, ISBN 0-87021-324-5
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