HMS Warspite at RHS Mod

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ORIGINAL: Kereguelen

ORIGINAL: el cid again

Looks like your source material may be incorrect. She did not compete repairs until February 1942 and then "was assighed to the Eastern Fleet." There had been battle damage that sent her to the yards. Looks like we got her armament wrong too - no MG - replaced by single 20mm. And radar was added at this time.


Hmmm - in RHS we got the 20mm right - but not the radar. Wonder what it was?

The Hermes wasn't sent to Simonstown because of any battle damage. She had collided with the AMC Corfu and needed a new bow[8|].

If she really received radar, Type 279 would've been the most likely choice.

Edit: Ok, seems that I was wrong. The collision with the Corfu happened in 1940 and the Hermes was in Simonstown for the second time in Dec 1941.

Correct - and this particular thread is about Warspite - not Hermes. It is Warspite that had the battle damage - material posted just above.

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Battleships and Battlecruisers, 1905-1970, Doubleday English translation of Schlachtshiffe und Schlachtkreuzer, by Siegfried Breyer, p.148:

Modifications necessitated by the war: from 1940 radar was added, among the sets were included Type 273 from 1941/42

so it would seem the radar added at Bremerton was Type 273

This is an RHS device - rated similar to US type SO and SG - due mainly to range and function. I need to review radar devices - but assuming it survives - we can put it on. This is a surface search radar with a range class on the order of
44,000 yards.

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I found the 20mm battery was improperly disposed. Someone took the simple method of assigning them "all" bearings. Further - the number was exaggerated - or a typo - in the late war form Warspite had 26 guns of this caliber (and 15 when it left Bremerton in 1942). As close as I can estimate from various drawings, it should be 3 forward, 4 port, starboard and aft in 1942, increasing to 5 forward, 7 port, starboard and aft later in the war. In common with most British battleships, she seems never to have fitted air warning radar, rather surface search (and fire control likely - not that it matters much in WITP).