Greatest ship vs ship shot ever made?

Mansteins revenge wrote:

Chuck Fan wrote:  Mick wrote:  HMS Warspite, Battle of Calabria, July 1940, hit Giulio Cesare from 26,000 yards, +or-. I'm pretty sure that's the record.     Scharnhorst and Gneisenau hit the British carrier HMS Glorious from at least 26,700 yards away during the Norway campaign one month earlier. We have a winner: "Scharnhorst hit the British carrier HMS Glorious from at least 26,700 yards." Wow, is that like 15 miles?

Interesting, Manny.  I thought there was some question about whether Scharnhorst or Gneisenau hit Glorious?  Wasn't Gneisenau closer (by about 2 - 3000 yards)?  What are you using for references on this?  This is some pretty interesing stuff so I'd like to take a look...

EDIT: Nope - it was Scharnhorst...

Chuck Fan wrote:

Mick wrote:  HMS Warspite, Battle of Calabria, July 1940, hit Giulio Cesare from 26,000 yards, +or-. I'm pretty sure that's the record.     Scharnhorst and Gneisenau hit the British carrier HMS Glorious from at least 26,700 yards away during the Norway campaign one month earlier.

"Scharnhorst hit the British carrier HMS Glorious from at least 26,700 yards."

Wow, is that like 15 miles?

CG Bob wrote:

Based on the original subject line, I'd say CGC INGHAM and her "hole in one" depth charge attack on U-626.   Some reports credit INGHAM with using one depth charge to sink the U-626 in December 1942.

The IJN submarine I-19 fired a single spread of 6 torpedos on September 15, 1942.   These 6 torpedoes sunk the carrier Wasp and the destroyer O'Brien, and damaged the battleship North Carolina.    The hit that sank the O'Brien is still the longest ranged torpedo hit, ever.

Mick wrote:

HMS Warspite, Battle of Calabria, July 1940, hit Giulio Cesare from 26,000 yards, +or-. I'm pretty sure that's the record.

Scharnhorst and Gneisenau hit the British carrier HMS Glorious from at least 26,700 yards away during the Norway campaign one month earlier.

 HMS Warspite, Battle of Calabria, July 1940, hit Giulio Cesare from 26,000 yards, +or-. I'm pretty sure that's the record.

CG Bob wrote:

Based on the original subject line, I'd say CGC INGHAM and her "hole in one" depth charge attack on U-626.   Some reports credit INGHAM with using one depth charge to sink the U-626 in December 1942.

C'mon, Coast Guard Bob!  The question was longest distance not just best shot, where was this submarine? At the bottom of the Marianna's Trench? 

m60a3 wrote:

Any time frame or what? But I guess nothing "modern" has happened since... the Falklands?            I don't know. Sailors?     60

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ddp59 wrote:

warspite against an italian battleship in the Battle of Cape Matapan, something like 27,000 yards.

 Any time frame or what? But I guess nothing "modern" has happened since... the Falklands?

           I don't know. Sailors?

    60

I think this song will get stuck in your head now.....

Does this count? in jest only

In May of nineteen forty-one the war had just begun
The Germans had the biggest ship that had the biggest guns
The Bismarck was the fastest ship that ever sailed the seas
On her deck were guns as big as steers and shells as big as trees

Out of the cold and foggy night came the British ship the Hood
And ev'ry British seaman, he knew and understood
They had to sink the Bismarck, the terror of the sea
Stop those guns as big as steers and those shells as big as trees

We'll find that German battleship that's makin' such a fuss
We gotta sink the Bismarck cause the world depends on us
Hit the decks a-runnin' boys and spin those guns around
When we find the Bismark we gotta cut her down

The Hood found the Bismarck and on that fatal day
The Bismarck started firin' "fifteen miles away"
"We gotta sink the Bismarck" was the battle sound
But when the smoke had cleared away, the mighty Hood went down

For six long days and weary nights they tried to find her trail
Churchill told the people "Put ev'ry ship a-sail
'Cause somewhere on that ocean I know she's gotta be
We gotta sink the Bismarck to the bottom of the sea"

We'll find that German battleship that's makin' such a fuss
We gotta sink the Bismarck cause the world depends on us
Hit the decks a-runnin' boys and spin those guns around
When we find the Bismarck we gotta cut her down

The fog was gone the seventh day and they saw the mornin' sun
Ten hours away from homeland the Bismarck made its run
The admiral of the British fleet said "Turn those bows around
We found that German battleship and we're gonna cut her down"

The British guns were aimed and the shells were comin' fast
The first shell hit the Bismarck, they knew she couldn't last
That mighty German battleship is just a memory
"Sink the Bismarck" was the battle cry that shook the seven seas

We found that German battleship was makin' such a fuss
We had to sink the Bismarck 'cause the world depends on us
We hit the deck a-runnin' and we spun those guns around
Yeah, we found the mighty Bismarck and then we cut her down

We found that German battleship was makin' such a fuss
We had to sink the Bismarck 'cause the world depends on us
We hit the deck a-runnin' and we spun those guns around
We found the mighty Bismarck and then we cut her down.