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Re: Index corr., Octant as dipmeter
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Nov 24, 09:05 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Nov 24, 09:05 -0500
My history book (The winning edge. Naval technology in action 1939-1945, by K. Poolman) says that "at 5:35 on May 24 Holland (the British admiral on the Hood) sighted the Bismark at 17 miles range, much farther away than his radars could have reported." In another place, the book describes Hood's radar, saying its surface range was about 11 miles, though it could pick an aircraft at 20,000 feet from 100 miles. On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Fred Hebard wrote: > I was thinking of the Bismark destroying the Hood. > That may have been > at night, however. >
