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Author Topic: Info about Germans in East Africa??  (Read 10507 times)

Offline Gluteus Maximus

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Re: Info about Germans in East Africa??
« Reply #30 on: January 15, 2010, 09:24:47 AM »
That ain't it. In the old days you had to have three square-rigged masts to count as a ship (hence HMAV Bounty, rather than HMS Bounty). In these newfangled days of vessels with engines there's no clear definition (just a vague sense of if it's big enough to warrant the name). You can put a dinghy on a racing yacht, but that don't make it a ship.  :)

Just when I thought I had started to understand nautical ways....  :(

Offline Admiral Benbow

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Re: Info about Germans in East Africa??
« Reply #31 on: January 15, 2010, 09:27:54 AM »
Hhm. I hoped I could get some info on this question from the film experts:

"wtf are the germans transporting through the grasland on huge wheeled carts, pulling on long ropes with hundreds of askaris? Just metal sheets for repairing the ship?"
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Re: Info about Germans in East Africa??
« Reply #32 on: January 15, 2010, 09:49:53 AM »
It is steel plating to repair the ship. The book (which has a slightly more serious and less slapstick tone than the film - though the character of Flynn is equally larger-than-life) devotes several chapters to the British pursuit of the Blücher. She engages in battle with the British Cruiser Orion and the Destroyer Bloodhound and emerges triumphant but heavily damaged. The ship hides in the delta to make repairs and it is discovered that large quantities of steel plating are needed to effect these repairs, which must be hauled over land to them.

Can't remember, but I think the film glosses over all this without really explaining it.


(Sorry Admiral, forgot about your question - I'm easily distracted by other things  :))
« Last Edit: January 15, 2010, 09:53:49 AM by Plynkes »
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Re: Info about Germans in East Africa??
« Reply #33 on: January 15, 2010, 01:54:28 PM »
(Sorry Admiral, forgot about your question - I'm easily distracted by other things  :))

No problem and thanks for your infos, Plynkes! You're indeed correct, the film has no explanations for that at all.
Another thank you for pointing me to that movie, all in all it's a nice film for a colonial gamer.
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Re: Info about Germans in East Africa??
« Reply #34 on: January 15, 2010, 03:47:36 PM »
...You can put a dinghy on a racing yacht, but that don't make it a ship.  :)

True, but you can still 'ship out' on a yacht!  ;)
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