From Mon Dec 15 11:53:32 1997
>Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 10:51:34 -0800
>From: Mike Potter
>Organization: Artecon, Inc.
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>To: mahan@microworks.net
>Subject: Naval history quiz winners
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>
>21-gun salutes to Brooks Rowlett and Steve Alvin!
>19-gun salute to Timothy Francis!
>All are US participants although both actions involved British and
>German units.
>
>1. Identify the first major surface warship to be sunk in combat from
>damage inflicted by hostile air attack:
>
> German light cruiser Kõnigsberg (L 1927) was sunk in April 1940 at
> Bergen, Norway, by multiple hits and near misses from 500lb bombs
> dropped by RN dive bombers. Aircraft sank smaller warships in China
> and Poland before this but Kõnigsberg was much larger and was armed
> and prepared to fight back.
>
>2. Identify the first major surface warship to be sunk in a naval action
>in which the victor used aircraft for gunfire spotting:
>
> German light cruiser Kõnigsberg (L 1905) was destroyed in July 1915
> in the Rufiji River delta, Tanzania (then German East Africa), by
> indirect fire from RN river monitors Mersey and Severn using 2
> (soon reduced to 1) spotter aircraft to call corrections.
>
>3. Before they were sunk, what did the victim warships from these
>actions have in common?
>
> To quote Brooks:
> > From the minimalist point of view, I suspect all three questions can
> > be answered with : “The name of the ship was KONIGSBERG”
> And both were light cruisers, obviously both were German. Probably
> the 1940 victim commemorated her 1915 predecessor, as did another
> WW 1 light cruiser.
>
>I’ll post separately a short account of the loss of the first
>Kõnigsberg, the result of a 10-month campaign that isn’t well known in
>naval history. Possibly another “first” was that this Kõnigsberg shot
>down a spotter, which could be the first surface-to-air kill in naval
>history.
>
>–
>Michael C. Potter, Mgr, TelCo/Govt Programs mike.potter@artecon.com
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