Reply to post: Re: Battle of the Falklands is not that little known

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Re: Battle of the Falklands is not that little known

Sturdee had been driving a desk for a while, so checking he could still operate a pair of ships makes sense to me.

From my remembering, the Battlecruisers couldn't make full speed to get to the Falklands due to needing to conserve coal. As to coaling, it's like driving on a motorway and you're below a quarter tank - do you stop at next services or go for the one after. Safer to top up at the next one.

(that coaling is such a long process was an impetus for RN to go to oil even though coal was readily available and oil had to come from foreign parts)

And as to what caused Germans to flee, it was as much the sight of the tripod masts which meant they were facing something bigger and badder than them, as a lucky shell from Canopus.

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