Translate

Wednesday, 7 February 2018

British Air Commodore Fellowes claimed to sink every existing battleship with 4 bombs according to the Dutch newspaper Marineblad dated 1936 no. 2

An item referred to the magazine N.M.R. dated 16 January 1936 reported that the British Air Commodore Fellowes stated that every existing battleships could be sunk with 4 hits by bombs.(1) He however did not mentioned how many bombs were to be thrown to hit battleship four times while she was at full speed the complete anti aircraft armament in action.

Note
1. Peregrine Forbes Morant Fellowes (21 December 1883 St. Kilda, Victoria, Australia-12 June 1955 Pietermauritzberg, South Africa).