"WWI Naval Battle – Bay of Algiers, 1914" Topic
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| NCC1717 | 12 Feb 2015 12:33 p.m. PST |
This fleet action is based on the Triple Alliance naval convention of 1913, as described in "The Great War at Sea" by Sondhaus. The plan was for the Italian and Austro-Hungarian fleets and any German ships in the Mediterranean to engage the French Fleet and block the Algerian troop transports. link
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 McKinstry  | 12 Feb 2015 1:00 p.m. PST |
I don't understand a range disparity between the Entente and Central powers? Given the relative fire control (or lack of) at the outbreak of the war, neither side could hit much of anything until they were at 16,000 or under. The effective range of both sides dreadnoughts were essentially identical. |
| NCC1717 | 12 Feb 2015 2:25 p.m. PST |
McKinstry, I suspect that you are correct, and that the penalties for long range fire using early war fire control need to be more severe. I don't actually have any evidence of what Italians or Austrians could have hit if there had been a battle in 1914, so tuning the algorithm is subjective. In this case, at 16K yards there was a big difference between not hitting much and not reaching the target at all. Based on Friedman,"Naval Weapons of World War One", the French 305mm guns on the Courbet and Danton classes could only elevate to 12 degrees, giving a range of about 14580 yards. Thanks for your comments.
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