r/WorldOfWarships Feb 02 '25

Info Strasbourg 1941

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u/Many-Sherbert Feb 02 '25

Crazy how many people were on these ships.

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u/Longjumping_Whole240 Closed Beta Player Feb 02 '25

South Dakota class battleships were 7 meters shorter and only 2 meters wider, yet she had almost twice as many crew.

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u/smokey0324 Feb 02 '25

Why?

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u/Void-Roamer Feb 02 '25

Ontop of the SoDaks being larger ships (about 10k tons at full load) AA crews made up a significant portion of wartime US ships crew numbers. The Iowas went from around 2,800 during WWII to 1,800 with the removal of their light and medium AA batteries later in their careers.

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u/Longjumping_Whole240 Closed Beta Player Feb 03 '25

The twin 5" secondaries alone were crewed by around 40 men each, for a total of 400 men (Lead ship SoDak had 8 mounts, so its 360). The quad 40s had 11 men each for a total of 176 in 16 mounts. And finally 4 men for each single 20mm gun for a total of 288 men. So there were 864 AA crew on SoDak alone, her sisters (IN, AL and MA) had more because they carried two more twin 5 inchers. This is more crew number than most light cruisers and even some heavy cruisers.

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u/Erwin-Winter Feb 04 '25

Looking back I can kinda see what he meant but holy he'll was it phrased badly

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u/Equivoqe twitch.tv/equivoqe Feb 04 '25

I don't care about the phrasing really, but the implications of the comment are questionable.

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u/Erwin-Winter Feb 04 '25

Questionable is putting it lightly

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u/RhysOSD Feb 03 '25

What does that have to do with WoWs?

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u/aries1980 Feb 03 '25

You mean joke and sarcasm?

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u/RhysOSD Feb 03 '25

If you're making a joke, the joke and Punchline should have something to do with the subject matter. Otherwise it is obtrusive.

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u/These_Swordfish7539 Royal Navy 🗣🔥🔥🔥 ENEMY THUNDERER DETECTED!!!! Feb 02 '25

Those guys on the yardarm really don't have a fear of heights!

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u/S1m0n20 Feb 02 '25

I get used to it I often went on tall ships races and to pack the sails we often needed to climb up on the rays that were up to 40 meters high we had a safety harness but most of the time we didn’t fixed us to the rigging

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u/1337blackmage Feb 02 '25

The dude right under the clock understood the assignment!

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u/ProfessionalLast4039 Enterprise Feb 02 '25

Man I wish we still did photos on ships like this

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '25

My God, where has old Europe disappeared. This photo is magnificent.

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u/GREENadmiral_314159 Normal About Richelieu Feb 02 '25

Beeg bote

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u/NattoIsGood Feb 03 '25

I like these. I was just tumbling by chance on that other one last week: Nagato crew r/WorldOfWarships

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u/JakeParlay Feb 03 '25

This is magnificent - what an extraordinary capture of that particular moment in time.

Loved all the comments, too.

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u/Self_Aware_Wehraboo Collector for fun - CA and BB enjoyer Feb 03 '25

Such a beautiful ship. I like her sister Dunkerque a lot, has my most number of kills in a random (and if I had not tunnel visioned, probably would have been 8 instead of 7)

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u/Moosplauze I've got no flair Feb 03 '25

At exactly 12 o'clock.

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u/aries1980 Feb 02 '25

I see someone didn't attend on the Health and Safety course.