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Thread #110123 Message #2309046
Posted By: Les from Hull
07-Apr-08 - 10:08 AM
Thread Name: BS: HMAS Sydney - sunk 1941, located 2008
Subject: RE: BS: HMAS Sydney - sunk 1941, located 2008
LH - gun calibre. The German Navy did have a couple more ships with 11in guns - the pre-dreadnought battleships Schlesien and Schleswig-Holstein. Germany was allowed to retain these obsolete pre-dreadnought battleships of 1908 after the First World War, and they served as training ships. But they did fire possibly the first shots of the Second World War providing naval gunfire support to German forces invading Poland on 1 September 1939.