Lets have a historical Naval Warfare thread...

Lets have a historical Naval Warfare thread. Who do you guys think were some of the best Naval Officers and Admirals in history and why? This guy gets my vote. Chester Nimitz

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_John_Walker
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Nile
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_St_Vincent_(1797)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Copenhagen_(1801)
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bumping with pics. Discuss Naval strategy, operations and tactics as well

Ground effect vehicle known as an Ekranoplan. A very curious weapon devised by the Soviet Union during Kruschchevs period in power

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Italian pro japanese propaganda congratulating the attack on pearl harbor

fucking Halsey....worst US Admiral ever.

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What did he do? What made him so bad?

seriously fuck this guy....

halsey did nothing wrong

>losses the battle of the Santa Cruz Islands
>gets smacked in the first battle of Guadalcanal
>takes the Japanese bait at Leyte
>losses 800 men to a fucking Typhoo

Your conclusions were all wrong Ryan.

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hehehe he looks incompetant

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I've been wondering this for a while

During WW2, many battleships had a cannon range of over 20 miles, but the horizon is only visible for a few miles. How did battleships shoot at each other at such a range if they couldn't see each other?

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Ahem

"Johnnie" Walker.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_John_Walker

"In 1941, Great Britain and Canada maintained 400 assorted escort ships along the Atlantic convoy routes, but the rate of U-boat sinkings remained dismally low, approximately two per month. Then Johnnie Walker took command of an escort group of nine ships–two sloops and seven corvettes. While defending his first convoy from England to Gibraltar, he sank three U-boats in 10 days, and on the 22-day return trip with another convoy he sank four more.

These were major victories won without loss and by unorthodox methods. Since the outset of the war, it had been accepted that escorts should stay close to their charges to ward off U-boat attacks. Walker, then holding the rank of commander, had achieved his successes by ignoring this principle and hunting his victims well away from their quarry. Two U-boats had been destroyed 40 miles from the convoy he was protecting."

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overrated

would follow this man to a watery grave...

Spotting planes and later radar.

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literally who?

Stay butthurt, frog.

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easy there roast beef
>win one naval battle after getting btfo for the past ever
>we masters of the sea nao

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interior of a russian sub

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Seriously? 800 men to a typhoon?

The IJN lost even more than that to a Typhoon. Damaged ships and shit, too.

And yet, Togo said he was inferior to

>le Yi Soon Shin

*cough en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Nile

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_St_Vincent_(1797)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Copenhagen_(1801)

>Santa Cruz
USN was simply outmatched. Japs not only had 3 CV and 1 CVL vs Americans' 2 CV, Shokaku and Zuikaku were post-treaty builds that were far better than the CV-6 and CV-8.

>first battle of Guadalcanal
Halsey wasn't in command.

>Leyte
He made a judgment call that was completely justified. Carriers were a threat as long as they were floating. Meanwhile a task force based around a battleship, even one centered around a Yamato, was pretty much useless it turned out.

>Typhoon
Only thing Halsey did wrong. He couldn't control the weather.