WWI Naval Action off the Falklands

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.

Wow, that was fast. Thanks guys!

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

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.

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

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.

What is a "World Book"?

Gordon McLaughlin

World Book Encyclopedia volume F

An atlas?

Enzo runnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnns!!! :-D

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

Age, I guess.

Don H.

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.

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

Gord>>

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.