On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:13:07 +0100, "Dennis Pogson"
wrote:


You've forgotten Scharnhorst and Graf Spee, also the Gneisenau.

Not exactly battleships. S&G have been called battle cruisers, but
with 11 inch guns they are hardly battleships. Graf Spey was a
cruiser. Only the turrets had enough armor to stop a six inch. The
Spee was the size of the eight inch gunned Prinz Eugen. Somewhat
larger than a treaty cruiser. Germany didn't sign that particular
treaty. The 11 inch shells were almost exactly one third as heavy as a
16 inch shell.

Casady