Uh no, German engineering plants were just awful, constantly unreliable and plagued by issues. She wasn't actually damaged at all, she was sitting in port while they tried to get her fucking engines to work properly cause after her last major operation her boilers were already fucked.
Uh no, German engineering plants were just awful, constantly unreliable and plagued by issues. She wasn't actually damaged at all, she was sitting in port while they tried to get her fucking engines to work properly cause after her last major operation her boilers were already fucked.
Yes, German engineering was indeed superior. At breaking down. :P
Yes, German engineering was indeed superior. At breaking down. :P
German engineering was quite good actually, when someone was around to reign in the mad scientists.
Unfortunately no such person was around when they were designing their first sets of steam plants for warships in decades. This lead to the brilliant decision that lacking practical experience with even 'normal' modern naval steam plants it would be a brilliant idea to design their new systems with operating pressures twice what the USN was using (which had spent most of a decade and much money in the 30s getting even that to be reliable)and nearly three times what everyone else was! Surely this combined with a lack of practical experience and a mad rush to get hulls in the water as quickly as possible wasn't going be a boondoggle at all.
Even worse is that even though higher steam pressures should have resulted in improved thermal efficiency and thus fuel economy the entire thing was so temperamental and badly designed that the plants were actually less efficient then even the ones operating at like a third the pressure in the IJN and RN. So basically they were completely abysmal failures in all aspects.
German engineering was quite good actually, when someone was around to reign in the mad scientists.
Unfortunately no such person was around when they were designing their first sets of steam plants for warships in decades. This lead to the brilliant decision that lacking practical experience with even 'normal' modern naval steam plants it would be a brilliant idea to design their new systems with operating pressures twice what the USN was using (which had spent most of a decade and much money in the 30s getting even that to be reliable)and nearly three times what everyone else was! Surely this combined with a lack of practical experience and a mad rush to get hulls in the water as quickly as possible wasn't going be a boondoggle at all.
Even worse is that even though higher steam pressures should have resulted in improved thermal efficiency and thus fuel economy the entire thing was so temperamental and badly designed that the plants were actually less efficient then even the ones operating at like a third the pressure in the IJN and RN. So basically they were completely abysmal failures in all aspects.
Unfortunately no such person was around when they were designing their first sets of steam plants for warships in decades. This lead to the brilliant decision that lacking practical experience with even 'normal' modern naval steam plants it would be a brilliant idea to design their new systems with operating pressures twice what the USN was using (which had spent most of a decade and much money in the 30s getting even that to be reliable)and nearly three times what everyone else was!
Uh no, German engineering plants were just awful, constantly unreliable and plagued by issues. She wasn't actually damaged at all, she was sitting in port while they tried to get her fucking engines to work properly cause after her last major operation her boilers were already fucked.
It was a combination of both. Renown DID inflict battle damage against Scharnhorst, enough that both her AND Gneisenau decided that discretion was the better part of valour and fucked off for the day, but there were mechanical issues as well.
It was a combination of both. Renown DID inflict battle damage against Scharnhorst, enough that both her AND Gneisenau decided that discretion was the better part of valour and fucked off for the day, but there were mechanical issues as well.
Scharnhorst wasn't touched by so much as a splinter. Gneisenau was hit and took some damage, but she was the focus of the fire and only a few sporadic salvos landed near Scharnhorst at the very end of the battle. Scharnhorst was unavailable 100% and only because of mechanical problems. Also them deciding to leave had allot less to do with the rather minor damage Renown did then the swarm of DD with her while they lacked ANY screen themselves.
Kriegsmarine planned to launch 4 battleships together on 1941!BismarckTirpitzGneisenauPrinz EugenDon't wanna go out! Too bothersome! RepairingDrydockingThe RAF is bombing the hell outta me! I can't sortie!WHAT!It seems a combined sortie of 4 battleships can't be realized.....So these two went for HMS Hood laterMachinery and propeller busted, need several months to repairUnder constructionBismarck, do you need my help?Scharnhorst
