Kevin Posted November 21, 2014 Share #1 Posted November 21, 2014 i will remove if this offends anyone http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30128199 trippwj, hexnut, mtaylor and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vossy Posted November 21, 2014 Share #2 Posted November 21, 2014 G'day Kevin, as ex-RAN i love this post! Long live the Puss Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith_W Posted November 21, 2014 Share #3 Posted November 21, 2014 Thank you for the link! FWIW I don't see why it should offend anyone any more than the Spanish or French should be offended over Trafalgar, or the British should be offended for losing the War of Independence, etc. davyboy, ulrich, avsjerome2003 and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WackoWolf Posted November 21, 2014 Share #4 Posted November 21, 2014 Thanks for the link. If I say what I want to say this would get delete so I won't say, but believe me I am not offended by any means. mtaylor, Brian the extraordinaire, Kevin and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtaylor Posted November 25, 2014 Share #5 Posted November 25, 2014 Robin, That info is buried in a sidebar. Here's a cut and paste of it: BBC Your Paintings To see more war paintings like The German Fleet at Anchor off Inchkeith, Firth of Forth: After the Surrender, 22 November 1918, by Charles Pears at the top of the page, go to BBC Your Paintings hexnut 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBorgens Posted November 25, 2014 Share #6 Posted November 25, 2014 Kevin, Thank you for posting this great piece of history that is new to me (ignorant Yank!). Dave B Kevin and WackoWolf 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hexnut Posted November 25, 2014 Share #7 Posted November 25, 2014 A short time indeed. The Ostfriesland, for example was state of the art when commissioned in 1911, but obsolete just 10 years later in 1921 when destroyed by aerial bombs by the nascent US Army Air Corps. Of note also though, is that it could be argued that the surrender was made possible as much by the sailors mutinies at Wilhelmshaven and Kiel, by personnel that had certainly proved their worth at the battle of Jutland, but did not see any point in fighting anymore... CaptainSteve 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flying_dutchman2 Posted November 26, 2014 Share #8 Posted November 26, 2014 Great link thanks and it is called "History". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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