WWI Naval Action off the Falklands

I was, um, passing the time with the 'F' volume of my World Book today and ran into the article on the Falklands and brief mention was made of a naval action fought off the Falklands in 1914. All I have is British vs Germans. Anybody know more?

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

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Mad-Modeller
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Not quite. The Battle of Coronel was fought off the Western coast of Chile on 1 Nov 1914 and was a defeat for the Royal Navy. Spee's force outnumbered and outgunned the British force which lost half its ships.

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The British response was to send a larger fleet which engaged the German fleet at the Falkland Islands on 8 Dec 1914. All but two of the German ships were destroyed.

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Enzo Matrix

Wow, that was fast. Thanks guys!

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

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Mad-Modeller

i have the colonel and the falklands book if you want to borrow it. after the germans shot up some smaller ships and radio stations, churchill sent some heavys to wipe out the german squadron responsible. they did. really good read, but very short. lmk.

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e

that's it! somebody's famous's son was an observer on a brit heavy. wrote a good account of the battle.

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e

I am really surprised that these ships, the WW1 battle cruisers, are not the subject of more kits. These early battlecruisers and battleships had a LOT of character, with big masts and lots of junk up on masts. Lots of external detail that did not appear on WW2 capitol ships.

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Don Stauffer in Minnesota

What is a "World Book"?

Gordon McLaughlin

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Gordon McLaughlin

World Book Encyclopedia volume F

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Willshak

An atlas?

Enzo runnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnns!!! :-D

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Enzo Matrix

Remember it like I'd been there, so to speak.....

Age, I guess.

Don H.

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Don Harstad

Yes, a 45-year old one at that. There's a heck of a lot of famous people still around in there. They aren't now, of course.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

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Mad-Modeller

Thanks; I hadn't heard of it. It sounded very impressive!

Gord>>

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Gordon McLaughlin

It was (still is?) a product of Field Enterprises in Chicago. Outside of politics the Field family seem to be the biggest thing in Chicago. The founder built the biggest department store in Chicago and the descendants branched out from there. Alas, in these modern times some bigger outfit bought the store and IIRC, changed the name to "Macy's". That was just so wrong. Macy's is a New York name and has no business being on THE Chicago store. And I'm not even from Chicago...

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

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Mad-Modeller

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