British expeditionary force

I’m going to go with a guy not on the list, Col. Aaron Bank. This type of mission sounds right up his alley…

@wittmann:

I think(not a WW1 historian) the Imperial Navy mutinied in 1918

Yes, in the last days or weeks of the war, the German Navy’s high command contemplated sending out the fleet against the Royal Navy (whose size advantage was very large at that point) so that it could go down in battle honourably after having spent much of the war sitting safely at anchor.  German sailors got wind of this plan and mutinited, since they did not take kindly to the idea of their lives being thrown away in a lost cause for the sole purpose of saving face.

Would had loved to use the Prinz Eugen and eight destroyers combined with a Luftflotte ,but it would have been hard to arrange it with the Prinz timewise…

Pocket Battleships were a term to describe larger warships that were listed as light enough to qualify for the requirements under Versailles treaty. Of course, they exceeded the requirements. Bismarck was created after Germany officially tore up the treaty.

Thanks Marc.  I often visit the BBC site but dont often go to the england section.  Missed this one!

We would have cut off all ties with them. The next one would have been a declaration of war.

May they rest in peace. But it is a little strange that the article describes this as “one of the worst naval disasters of the second world war”. Numerous other ships went down with far more casualties.

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