Naval Battles

[Jason The Argonaut]

I have a question was Leyte Gulf the largest naval battle of all time, Wholley, Whitey ?

[Jason The Argonaut]

I thought Jutland was the largest as well, but I have also herd the same about Leyte Gulf, I was just looking for some clarification.

The Yamato got a pounding but her sister ship the Musashi got it alot worse. On 24 October 1944, while en route to the prospective battle area off the Leyte landing beaches, Musashi and her consorts were attacked by hundreds of U.S. Navy carrier aircraft. In this Battle of the Sibuyan Sea, she was hit by some nineteen torpedoes and seventeen bombs. Though her heavy protection withstood this massive damage to a degree probably unsurpassed by any other contemporary warship, Musashi capsized and sank about four hours after she received her last hit.

[Wholley]

Jason,
just too clarify,history tells us that Leyte Gulf was the largest Naval
battle in the Pacific,not the World.


LMK.I never knew the US had thirty Aircraft Carrier's at Leyte.
Can you name them?
Wholley.

[Frank S.]

I think it was more like 8 aircraft carriers, between the third and seventh fleets.
In all, over 700 US vessels were involved, but nowhere near 30 carriers...

[Wholley]

There you go Men.
http://history.acusd.edu/gen/WW2Timelin ... leyte.html
Wholley.

[harry hackedoff]

The battle of Leyte Gulf wasn`t simply the largest naval battle in the Pacific during WW II, it was the largest naval battle anywhere, ever. This is likely to remain so, given the cost of large naval assets and the firepower contained within the most potent, non-nuclear weapon ever seen, namely the modern American Carrier Battle Group.

Ref lmk`s posts,

I thought the largest Naval Battle of all time was the Battle of Jutland

Yep, thirty Aircraft Carriers! Its amazing really!

Yawn.
Ref your post on introduce yerself, as far as I`m concerned that should be called" Lord Marshal Kalthorn grips your shite"
Works for me

Aye,

[Shoulderholster]

WW2 Battle of the Atlantic,just one long arduous slog,against nature and everything the U Boats could throw at the poor bastards.
If it wasn't for them I'm sure we would have gone under.Its gets my vote for most important Naval Battle

SH

[harry hackedoff]

gets my vote for most important Naval Battle

I`d agree with that, Shoulders, I`ve mentioned elsewhere about lads in the Merch having their pay stopped the moment they got into the lifeboats. Without the endless conveyor belt from Uncle Sam`s factories, we`d all be spracken sie deutch, by now. Wait around for a few years and.... oh, sorry, that`s the French
If you get the chance,( besides having your wheels stolen,) Merseyside is home to the Battle of The Atlantic festival every year. Check it out.
Truc lagoon, Leyte Gulf, world class wreck dive sites now. I`m a bit dubious about wreck diving, particularly where lives have been lost and even more so where the wreck is a designated war grave. Any one taking "souvenirs" from a war grave wreck should be banned from diving in UK waters and have their gear confiscated.
I dived on a wreck on the Manacles reef off Lizard point. Eighteen ninety-odd, the Moheegan sails from the States and in the worst night seen in the Channel for ages, she hauls up to the Lizard. Captain decides to hang a right and tack over to France. His destination was further up the Channel. As he sights the coast of France, he wacks on a left turn and thinks he is tacking up the Channel. Imagine his surprise as he ends up right back where he started from, driven onto the Manacles . Two hundred and eighty plus lives were lost that night. I could feel most of them watching me, as I swam over her. How anyone can take "smidge" as it`s called from wrecks like this , is beyond me. The same rules apply as everywhere else."Leave nothing but your footprints, take nothing but photographs"
Aye,
PS Drink nothing but Piss

[Jason The Argonaut]

I have a question was Leyte Gulf the largest naval battle of all time

Lepanto, battle of , Oct. 7, 1571, naval battle between the Christians and Ottomans fought at the mouth of the Gulf of Patras, off Lepanto, Greece. The fleet of the Holy League commanded by John of Austria (d. 1578) opposed the Ottoman fleet under Uluç Ali Pasha. The allied fleet (about 200 galleys, not counting smaller ships) consisted mainly of Spanish, Venetian, and papal ships and of vessels sent by a number of Italian states. It carried approximately 30,000 fighting men and was about evenly matched with the Ottoman fleet. The battle ended with the virtual destruction of the Ottoman navy (except 40 galleys, with which Uluç Ali escaped). Approximately 15,000 Turks were slain or captured, some 10,000 Christian galley slaves were liberated, and much booty was taken. The victors, however, lost over 7,000 men. Among the allied wounded was Cervantes, who lost the use of his left arm. Lepanto was the first major Ottoman defeat by the Christian powers, and it ended the myth of Ottoman naval invincibility. It did not, however, affect Ottoman supremacy on the land, and a new Turkish fleet was speedily built by Sokollu, grand vizier of Selim II. Nevertheless, the battle was decisive in the sense that an Ottoman victory probably would have made the Ottoman Empire supreme in the Mediterranean.