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Posted: **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.

Posted: **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)

Posted: **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;"

Posted: **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.

Posted: **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.

Posted: **Thu Oct 15, 2020 3:34 am**

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

Posted: **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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