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HMS Dreadnought Question.

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  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Winsted CT
HMS Dreadnought Question.
Posted by jimz66 on Saturday, April 28, 2007 1:06 PM
Caught the show on Thursday or Friday during the day on the History International Channel. The show Voyages often depicts ships on the high seas. This one had to do with the Battleships and their too brief history. I noticed that on the side of the Dreadnought there were diaganol lines on the side of the hull. Were those staircases or support beams. If they were stairs, why so many?
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  • Member since
    May 2006
  • From: UK
Posted by David Harris on Saturday, April 28, 2007 1:35 PM

They are booms that were used to hang torpedo nets from. According to Roberts book, The Anatomy of the Ship, Battleship Dreadnought, they were removed some time between mid 1915 to mid 1916.

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