Since I'm certain I'm right, here is the next question. What was the first clean sweep in submarine history?
Well, technically a "clean sweep" meant you used up all your torpedoes & sank stuff. So I'd say the CSS Hunley
Hunley did return to port. Granted, it was about 120 years late, but she did come home. I did love the "torp a Brit cruiser. Oh, wait, two more are stopping alongside. Torpedo's...Lose!"
U9 sinking the Live Bait Squadron is correct! Got to love Castles of Steel! Can't help but feel sorry for the poor Brits on those armored crusiers though.
Damn...that was off the top of my head. Ok....who officially is credited with coining the term "Destroyer" to describe small fast seagoing ships with quick-firing guns and torpedoes?
Correct! That guy pretty much single-handedly invented the modern navy. Read up on him sometime, it's fascinating. Especially when you consider he joined the RN before the American Civil War.
Have you ever read Castles of Steel? I highly recommend it. Great book on the naval part of WW1. I knew the answer for this one from reading that book. Sometimes I wonder what would have happened at sea if Churchill hadn't ticked Fisher off and made him leave the Admiralty.
There would have been a bunch more British ships running around at 30+ knots, carrying 18+ inch guns, and wearing not a stitch of armor.
More Great War Trivia!!! SMS Nassua, Germany's first dreadnought, had her turrets in an unusual hexagonal pattern. It is said that the builders had to put them in that fashion to make room for the triple expansion steam engines. What advantage was this layout thought to have?
The hexagonal pattern made it easier to keep the onboard bee colony, so the crew had a constant supply of honey for their toast.
Most likely there wouldn't have been a Soviet Union, either. He was a strong proponent of getting involved (on the White side) of the Russian revolution
