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ORIGINAL: Orm

The comment for the Bismarck sinking seems a little wrong to me. "sunk/scuttled after engagement with by Rodney and KGV". Shouldn't it be either with or rephrased?

But what do I know. [:D]

BTW. I think that "sunk" works just fine even if the crew did scuttle her (him?) when remaining afloat would just prolong the pounding, and increase the suffering and casualties among the crew. Edit: For clarification, I think scuttled should be removed.

ORIGINAL: Centuur

There's a typo with the Dutch Destroyers. The name of the Destroyer is Kortenaer (and not Kortaener)...

Keep up the good work.

ORIGINAL: paulderynck

Irfanview allows you to experiment with the settings below the resize, like not preserving the aspect ratio, applying a sharpen filter, or changing the DPI setting.

Another idea is can you reduce the size using Paint and just "save as" a jpg.

Another idea is to save from Excel direct to PDF, take a screen shot saved as a PNG or JPG and play with that in Irfanview. You might only have to crop it. (Or even just take a screen shot of the Excel.) PNG may be a better format for what you are doing but of course has to be converted to a JPG for posting.

What is your monitor width? My monitor is 1920 x 1080 and so the picture is only about two thirds of the width of a post when I view it. So a wider and taller picture would help with reading the text. (Of course that may mean others would have to scroll left and right.)

ORIGINAL: paulderynck

I find it a little easier to read the print in the above than in the thread we are discussing. (Please don't tell me it's the same picture!)

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: paulderynck

I find it a little easier to read the print in the above than in the thread we are discussing. (Please don't tell me it's the same picture!)

warspite1

No they are different pictures. I thought the one above was clearer but the more I look at it the more I think the effect is pretty much the same. Oh well I tried.

ORIGINAL: warspite1

I am trying to work out the fates of the Dutch submarines in WWII (particularly (but not limited to) those that served in the Far East).

My usual trusty sources have thrown up something of a mis-match in their recording, namely:

Conways All The Worlds Fighting Ships 1922 - 1946
Rohwer's Chronology of the War at Sea
U-boat.net

I hate to think that Conway's could be wrong but it is looking that way at present.....

Does anyone know a truly trusted source for Dutch submarines of WWII please?

ORIGINAL: Centuur

K XI was used as a training boat from 1943 onward and decommissioned in 1945.
K XII was taken over by the NEFIS (Netherlands Forces Intelligence Service) from 1942 onward and transferred to the Royal Australian Navy in 1944. The Australians decommissioned the boat in 1945.
K XIII after an accident in the port of Surabaya, the ship was under repairs when the Japanese took the port. The ship got scuttled there (in 1942). After the war, the hull was considered to be an obstacle and was lifted and scrapped in 1945.

K XVIII was scuttled in 1942, however lifted and repaired by the Japanese in 1943-1944. In 1945 the boat was sunk by HMS Tacitum (a submarine).

ORIGINAL: brian brian

I did not know that the Japanese carrier port strikes in the Indian Ocean (Tricomalee?) occurred on Easter. Did that factor in to the readyness of the RN, as it may have at Pearl Harbor (Sunday morning)?

ORIGINAL: Courtenay

HMS Trinidad is misspelled in the entry, and was not sunk by its own torpedo. It was damaged by its own torpedo, but made Murmansk, where it was repaired. On the return journey to Britain in May she was damaged by Ju88s and subsequently scuttled.

All this according to Wikipedia.