Talk:HMS Nelson (28)

Another (public domain) picture of HMS Nelson

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Accorting to this page, copyright on two of those photographs is held by one Ian Butler. Bastie 17:03, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

Finding me Dad

Hi Folks ... Never bin mhere before so please have patience thanks... Well here gos ...My dad servered on the Nelson & the Rodney during the 2nd world war. He was a leading torpedo man by the time the war finnished...Well I have looked at the crew members list on a couple of web sites and cannot find him any where. (ok he wus small???5'-1) just wondered if any one could help me find him...Dad daied in 1994. being his only son I get to keep all the papers he left behind of his milatry service. Loke many of you that may read this I like you feel proud that my Dad did his bit....I wounder if any one out there knowns him  ?? His name is Erice James Alfred Copeman... If you know any thing and would like to chat my e-mail ie terrycopeman@aol.com...Many thanks for listing to my request

P.S. sorry about the spelling

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Commissioned : 10 august 1927 ???

Conforoa (french wiki)

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There is an inconsistency between the two commissioned dates shown on the page - but I don't know which is correct to edit. If anyone knows, please put this right. Thanks.

Gun mount numbers

The sentence (third paragraph) "The six pom-pom mounts were numbered from M1 (on top of B turret) to M7 at the extreme aft - there was no M2 position - the odd numbers 3 and 4 to the starboard." doesn't make sense; 4 is not an odd number, for example. WeeWillieWiki (talk) 21:28, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

I have added clarification to this sentence, so it should now make sense. This whole article needs more work but for further information at present you should also read the "Nelson class battleships" & HMS "Rodney" articles where I have significantly enhanced the original authors work.The Dart (talk) 23:54, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

Italian long armistice?

The Italian long armistice was signed between General Dwight Eisenhower and Marshal Pietro Badoglio aboard the Nelson on 29 September.

What is this "Italian long armistice"? The link is dead, and searching for the term on the 'net turns up lots of copy-paste, but no information. It's not the Armistice of Cassibile (1943-09-03)... -- DevSolar2 (talk) 12:36, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

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Attack of U-56 on 30 October 1939 : Churchill&Pound aboard? Zahn relieved of command ?

I am much intrigued by this story about the unsuccesfull attack of U-56 on the British Home Fleet. I can see in Rohwer Chronology of the war at sea that the Home Fleet was at sea from 23-31 october, busy escorting British iron ore ships from Narvik to England. The Home Fleet returned to Loch Ewe on 31st Oct 1939. So the attack is on the 30th Oct. As the U-56 is a type II boat with 3 torpedo tubes, there are 3 torpedoes launched. One is a miss, 2 hit the Nelson but do not explode. These are facts. There are 2 other aspects which are often mentioned which according to me are urban legend :

• Churchill and Dudley Pound were aboard the Nelson
• Zahn was so depressed that Donitz relieved him from active duty and put him in training command instead

About the first aspect : Churchill and Pound were on the 31st in Loch Ewe to discuss when the Home Fleet could return to Scapa Flow in light of the U-47 attack. I find it highly unlikely that they were aboard, Sea Lords are not at sea were they are cut off from communications, that's the job of Forbes to lead the ships at sea. They have been on a mission to Norway for ten days, impossible that Churchill and Pound were away for such a long time from their command.

About the second aspect : after this incident, Zahn continued to be in command of the U-56 and executed two more patrols. He left U-56 to commision a bigger boat, the U-69 which indeed you could regard as some training mission, but as the U-56 was a small boat it was the plan all along that these were withdrawn to training flottilas in order to support the expanding U-boat fleet.

So I'd keep those two aspect in the wikipage, as you can read this urban legend in lots of books, but I would clearly mention what they are : urban legends.

I am posting this on the talk page of U-56, Wilhem Zahn and HMS Rodney

Klutserke (talk) 19:22, 1 March 2023 (UTC)