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Blast from the Past

#1 Post by llondel » Tue Oct 13, 2020 8:17 pm

Sorry, couldn't resist the title. Turns out that one of 617 Squadron's earthquake bombs didn't go off as it was supposed to.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54522203
The largest unexploded World War Two bomb ever found in Poland has detonated during the defusing process, a Polish Navy spokesman said.

The chance the bomb - at the bottom of a Baltic Sea shipping canal - would detonate had been put at 50-50 and all the divers were unharmed.

About 750 residents had been evacuated near the port city of Swinoujscie.

The RAF dropped the Tallboy or "earthquake" bomb in a raid in 1945 which sank the German cruiser Lützow.

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Re: Blast from the Past

#2 Post by G-CPTN » Tue Oct 13, 2020 8:29 pm

llondel wrote:
Tue Oct 13, 2020 8:17 pm
The RAF dropped the Tallboy or "earthquake" bomb in a raid in 1945 which sank the German cruiser Lützow.

That doesn't agree with:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cr ... zow_(1939)

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Re: Blast from the Past

#3 Post by Pontius Navigator » Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:09 pm

G-CPTN wrote:
Tue Oct 13, 2020 8:29 pm
llondel wrote:
Tue Oct 13, 2020 8:17 pm
The RAF dropped the Tallboy or "earthquake" bomb in a raid in 1945 which sank the German cruiser Lützow.

That doesn't agree with:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cr ... zow_(1939)
True but if you look up all German heavy cruisers you will find :
Deutschland—by now renamed Lützow—Admiral Scheer, and Admiral Hipper were all destroyed by British bombers at the end of the war;"

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#4 Post by G-CPTN » Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:16 pm

Pontius Navigator wrote:
Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:09 pm
Deutschland—by now renamed Lützow—Admiral Scheer, and Admiral Hipper were all destroyed by British bombers at the end of the war;"
Ah! now that makes sense - thanks.

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Re: Blast from the Past

#5 Post by Pontius Navigator » Wed Oct 14, 2020 8:16 am

G-CPTN wrote:
Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:16 pm
Pontius Navigator wrote:
Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:09 pm
Deutschland—by now renamed Lützow—Admiral Scheer, and Admiral Hipper were all destroyed by British bombers at the end of the war;"
Ah! now that makes sense - thanks.
To complicate the story although she was sunk the Soviets refloated her and then used her as a gunnery target sank her in 1947.

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Re: Blast from the Past

#6 Post by llondel » Thu Oct 15, 2020 3:34 am

They renamed it because they didn't want the symbolism of a ship called Deutschland being sunk.

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Re: Blast from the Past

#7 Post by 4mastacker » Sun Jan 31, 2021 12:52 am

Some more relics of WWII causing disruption

A cluster of four UXBs could make for interesting times for the EOD people.
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