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Re: Paul-Hugo Kettner - "Anneberg" sinking
Posted by: Rainer ()
Date: January 28, 2009 08:48PM

Hi Gerard

To scuttle a ship it was not necessary to drop depth charges under a ship, a detonation close to the side would cause enough pressure to cause cracks in the hull or even remove some plates. The corvettes were not only equipped with rails to roll depth charges over the stern, but also with depth charge projectors (so called K-guns) to fire a single depth charge out to the side. It is possible that HMCS BATTLEFORD passed close to ANNEBERG and used its K-guns to fire depth charges as close as possible to her hull.

Best regards
Rainer

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Paul-Hugo Kettner - "Anneberg" sinking gerard heimann 01/28/2009 08:08PM
Re: Paul-Hugo Kettner - "Anneberg" sinking Rainer 01/28/2009 08:48PM
Re: Paul-Hugo Kettner - "Anneberg" sinking gerard heimann 01/28/2009 09:20PM
Re: Paul-Hugo Kettner - "Anneberg" sinking Rainer 01/29/2009 06:13PM


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