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	World War Two Ships: Ship Types
		If opposing fleets met, the battleships would form a line of battle and attempt to manoeuvre so that they maximised the number of guns that could fire on the enemy whilst minimising the number of enemy guns that could be brought to bear on them.
		Lacking war experience with the new type of battleship, and aware of the difficulty of hitting fast moving targets at sea, one school of thought proposed that a fast moving, heavily armed and lightly armoured ship would be superior to a slow moving, heavily armed and heavily armoured ship.
		Due to the battleship-type gun arrangement being combined with a relatively tiny hull, she was referred to as a ‘pocket’ battleship by the rest of the world.
	www.ww2ships.com /documents/doc0002-ship_types.shtml (10198 words)

	Me 410: Conflicting Aims...
		Not so different in concept to the navy's pocket battleships, The Me 410 was meant to be used as a heavy fighter to break up enemy formations and as a fast bomber, all in one aircraft.
		The pocket battleship, was planned to be better armed and protected than a cruiser, yet faster than a battleship, so it could oppose one enemy and outrun the other.
		Practically, one would have had to admit that the opposite occurred; the pocket battleship consequently was slower and less agile than the cruisers, and weaker armed and armored than the battleships.
	www.ipmsstockholm.org /magazine/2000/08/stuff_eng_spahr_me410.htm (2114 words)

	Battleship Bismarck \| Bismark \| German Kriegsmarine
		On the morning of 27 May Admiral Tovey (with his battleships) manoeuvred his squadron so that it would approach the Bismarck from the west.
		The battleships, King George V and Rodney, sailed in line abreast about 550 meter (600 yards) apart toward the last reported position of the enemy.
		At 0912 - 1016, the Battleship Bismark received multiple hits at point blank range between 2,500 (2,700 yards) to 4,000 meters (4,400 yards), but was still afloat.
	www.battleshipbismarck.com (332 words)

	German , Nurnberg, Lutzow, Admiral Hipper, Graf Spee, Scheer, Tirpitz, Bismarck, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Graf, ...
		Battleship “Warspite” and nine destroyers were sent into the Narvik fiords to finish off the remaining German ships.
		Pocket battleship "Admiral Scheer" also got back to Germany after five months in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans credited with 16 ships of 99,000 tons and the "Jervis Bay".
		By now "Tirpitz", pocket battleship "Lutzow", heavy cruiser "Admiral Hipper", light cruisers "Koln" and "Nurnberg" and a number of 5in and 5.9in gun destroyers were in Norwegian waters.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsGermanWarships.htm (6940 words)

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		Hood was designed a battlecruiser, indeed, she was basically the BCS variant of the BC battleship, incorporating lessons learnt at the Battle of Jutland.
		The term 'pocket battleship' is not a translation of 'panzerschiff' - the term was coined by the allies.
		There was never a designation 'light battleship' - battleships ranged in displacement from 25k tons to over 60k tons - it was merely my way of pointing out that the smaller battleships built in the 1930s and 1940s were not battlecruisers in the original sense, merely smaller battleships.
	www.strategypage.com /militaryforums/8-3721.aspx (649 words)

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		The two battleships of the Bismarck class, Bismarck and Tirpitz were the last battleships built in Germany and the most famous.
		But after the construction of the second French battleship of the Dunkerque class, the naval construction department was forced to modify the previous design to build a stronger ship than the French counterparts.
		Although the primary mission objective for German ships was to sink allied merchant shipping, the battleships of the Bismarck class should also engage allied warships, unlike the Panzerschiffe and the Scharnhorst class.
	www.angelfire.com /mb/173/GERMANSHIPS.html (291 words)

	Pocket battleships
		The light or pocket battleships were products of the Shalom shipyards and were a blatant tool of the rim worlds for beating the treaty restrictions regarding vessel weights placed upon them to prevent them building standard battleships.
		Why the design I have in my pocket could master a battleship" And that is how the name had been borne...
		The grand cruisers were the precursor to the battlecruisers of the modern imperial navy, almost rivalling battleships in the weight of firepower they could lay down and their ability to absorb punishment.
	www.angelfire.com /games4/chubbybob/pocket_battleships.htm (512 words)

	Alibris: Battleships
		The German Panzerschiff or Pocket Battleship' was developed in the years that followed World War I, in an effort to circumvent limitations on the sizes and types of ships that Germany was permitted to build.
		Recently updated to provide new information on the German battleship Bismarck, including details of her condition before capsizing and how she was scuttled and evidence revealed by Ballard's discovery of the wreck.
		With provocative insight and wit, this myth-shattering book offers an irreverent history of the modern battleship and its place in American history, from the sinking of the coal-fueled Maine in 1898 to the deployment of the cruise missile-armed Missouri in the Persian Gulf War of 1991.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Battleships (715 words)

	Avalanche Press
		Zenker abandoned hope of new battleships and instead asked for long-range commerce raiders that could damage French trade in far-flung oceans, reducing French economic strength directly and naval strength indirectly by forcing the assignment of warships as convoy escorts and to hunt for these raiders.
		Development problems slowed the diesel’s deployment, and the battleship was commissioned with her central engine room empty and her center propeller shaft alley welded shut.
		She was about the same size as a heavy cruiser and armored on the same scale; the German Navy initially called them “armored ships” and reclassified the two surviving units as “heavy cruisers”; in early 1940.
	www.avalanchepress.com /Pocket_Battleships.php (1264 words)

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		BattleShip for Pocket PC Scripts Version 1.0 By Patrick Turnage pturnage@pacmategear.com 1.0 Welcome This documentation is for Pocket BattleShip Scripts.
		Once you do browse: my computer and press enter Mobile Device and press enter My Pocket PC and press enter Windows and Press enter In order to see the folders you need to access to install the scripts you must have your computer configured to show all files.
		In Pocket BattleShip you target the computers ships but the computer does not target yours.
	www.pacmategear.com /files/scripts/BattleShipScriptsManual.txt (916 words)

	Deutschland class cruiser - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British began referring to the vessels as pocket battleships, in reference to the heavy firepower contained in the relatively small vessels; they were considerably smaller than battleships and battlecruisers, and although their displacement was that of a heavy cruiser, they were armed with guns larger than the heavy cruisers of other nations.
		Deutschland class ships continue to be called pocket battleships in some circles.
		They also superficially resembled contemporary battleships due to their unsually high conning tower/bridge and the masts of the Admiral Scheer and Admiral Graf Spee.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pocket_battleship (822 words)

	All Wood Wings: Lutzow Class Pocket Battleships - quality ship models crafted from wood
		The Lützow Class ships were smaller than heavy cruisers but were designated "Panzerschiff" (battleship) because their main armament was 11-inch (280mm) guns.
		Because of their small size, they are referred to as "Pocket Battleships".
		Both surviving pocket battleships were extensively converted in late 1939 to early 1940 which saw them lengthened overall by 2 meters and the "pagoda style" superstructure on Admiral Scheer replaced by the more slender structure that the Deutschland had originally been built with.
	www.allwoodwings.com /Ships/Military/Battleships/German-LutzowClass.htm (456 words)

	pocket. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
		A small baglike attachment forming part of a garment and used to carry small articles, as a flat pouch sewn inside a pair of pants or a piece of material sewn on its sides and bottom to the outside of a shirt.
		Suitable for or capable of being carried in one's pocket: a pocket handkerchief; a pocket edition of a dictionary.
		Having gained or retained funds of a specified amount: was a hundred dollars in pocket after a day at the races.
	www.bartleby.com /61/27/P0392700.html (436 words)

	Battleship Bismarck, Tirpitz, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Bismark
		On the morning of 27 May Admiral Tovey manoeuvred his squadron so that it would approach the Bismarck from the west and have the target silhouetted by the morning light.
		At 0912 - 1016, the Battleship Bismarck received multiple hits at point blank range between 2,500 (2,700 yards) and 4,000 meters (4,400 yards), but was still afloat.
		Pocket Battleships Admiral Graf Spee, Amiral Scheer, Luetzow; Schwerer Kreuzer Admiral Hipper, Prinz Eugen, Blücher und andere Einheiten der deutschen Seekriegsmarine (in Vorbereitung).
	www.battleshiparchive.com (424 words)

	Pocket into Pocket -- Monday, Jun. 23, 1941 -- Page 1 -- TIME (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The scuttling of the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spec off Montevideo in December 1939, enforced by inferior British vessels, was one of Britain's proudest episodes in the war.
		The pilot dropped to 100 feet, skidded his Beaufort around the stern of one of the port-flanking destroyers, squared away, launched a tin fish, and sheered off to the left within 100 yards of the pocket battleship's bow.
		Shepherded by her destroyers, she soon limped away at greatly reduced speed into the safety of the Skagerrak, probably so strongly protected by German land-based fighters that the British bombers—too far from home to bring a fighter escort—did not dare strike again.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,851156,00.html (663 words)

	German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In view of her comparatively heavy artillery of 28 cm (11 inch) guns, she and her two sisters, Deutschland (later renamed Lützow) and Admiral Scheer, were frequently referred to as pocket battleships by the British.
		On 13 December 1939, she was located by the British Hunting Group G, consisting of the 8 inch (203 mm) gunned cruiser HMS Exeter and the 6 inch (152 mm) gunned light cruisers HMS Ajax and HMS Achilles (of the Royal New Zealand Navy), and the Battle of the River Plate ensued.
		A ruse by the British encouraged the captain to think that he was out-numbered, with aircraft carriers and battleships on their way (in fact, not a single additional vessel could have arrived in time), and that his escape route was cut off.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/German_pocket_battleship_Admiral_Graf_Spee (1794 words)

	Amazon.com: German Pocket Battleships 1939-45 (New Vanguard): Books: Gordon Williamson,Ian Palmer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In German Pocket Battleships 1939-1945, Williamson outlines the technical details and careers of the three German warships of the "Deutschland" class: Deutschland (later Lutzow), Scheer and Graf Spee.
		Thus, the pocket battleship concept was obsolete early in the war.
		The power plant of the Deutschland class also makes one wonder about the technical quality of the pocket battleships too, since their typical speed of 25 knots was not very fast compared to other heavy cruisers.
	amazon.com /German-Pocket-Battleships-1939-45-Vanguard/dp/1841765015 (1444 words)

	Board Games of your Childhood Bundle on PocketGear.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		HASBRO and its logo and BATTLESHIP are trademarks of Hasbro and are used with permission.
		The Pocket PC version of SCRABBLE is produced by Handmark under a license agreement with Infogrames, Inc., which publishes the electronic and interactive versions of Hasbro properties.
		YAHTZEE® family dice game for the Pocket PC platform is the first official version of this classic.
	www.pocketgear.com /software_detail.asp?id=22375 (851 words)

	Steve "Pocket Battleship" Coppell - Premier League Managers Fight Club
		Profile: The Pocket Battleship grew up on the seedy streets of Liverpool.
		This was not the place for the faint hearted, and despite his tiny frame he became feared as a known enforcer in the Kensington crew, a notorious gang.
		On his departure to Manchester, the Pocket Battleship ditched his gangland past and became a stunt man for the PG Tips monkeys.
	www.football-england.com /steve_pocket_battleship_coppell.html (191 words)

	uboat.net - The Books - Errata listings
		Entry: "Holland, Sir Lancelot" Battleship Bismarck is referred to as a “pocket battleship”.
		Pennsylvania was in drydock, not on Battleship Row.
		She was an old battleship, not a cruiser.
	uboat.net /books/errata/listing.html?errid=1585 (1208 words)

	Tri-Galactic Military Wyvern Class Pocket Battleship
		"The German pocket battleships were designed as long range commerce raiders and were designed to be powerful enough to sink anything they could not outrun and fast enough to outrun anything they could not sink"
		These mounts are from Yamato class battleships and several types of orbital defense fortresses.
		While these weapons are not quite as powerful as the 40 inch laser batteries on the Protector class Battleship, they are quite powerful and capable of taking out huge targets.
	members.tripod.com /~The_Kitsune/Rifts-PW-Vehicles/TMS_Wyvern.htm (2715 words)

	German Pocket Battleships, reviewed by James Hood
		That however, is the world for which the fledgling Deutsche Kriesgsmarine formulated the Pocket Battleship.
		As with many naval subjects, the Deutschland class "Pocket Battleships" are practically never seen on film.
		The only movie "about" a pocket battleship was the 1956 British "Battle Of The River Plate," also known as "Pursuit Of The Graf Spee" in the USA.
	modelingmadness.com /others/books/hoodpb.htm (586 words)

	pocket - yourDictionary.com - American Heritage Dictionary
		I pocketed my pride and asked for a raise.
		The defendant had the jury in his pocket.
		was a hundred dollars in pocket after a day at the races.
	www.yourdictionary.com /ahd/p/p0392700.html (321 words)

	GERMANY - Deutschland pocket battleship class
		By these means a saving in weight of 550 tons is said to be effected.
		Are officially rated as " Armoured Ships" (Panzerschiffe), and popularly referred to as "Pocket Battleships".
		Actually, they are equivalent to armoured cruisers of an exceptionally powerful type.
	www.voodoo.cz /battleships/germany/lutzow.html (321 words)

	pocket, pocketing, pockets, pocketed- WordWeb dictionary definition
		"the ball hit the pocket and gave him a perfect strike"
		A local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly
		"they were concentrated in pockets inside the city"; "the battle was won except for cleaning up pockets of resistance"
	www.wordwebonline.com /en/POCKET (161 words)

	Pocket Battleship Admiral Graf Spee
		The Graf Spee was a pocket battleship launched by Germany in 1934 and named after the World War I Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee.
		The Allies formed seven hunting groups in the Atlantic and one in the Indian Ocean to look for her, totalling three battleships, four aircraft carriers, and 16 cruisers.
		On December 13, 1939, she was found by the British Hunting Group G - the 8-inch gunned cruiser HMS Exeter, and 6-inch gunned light cruisers HMS Ajax and HMNZS Achilles - in the Battle of the River Plate.
	www.battle-fleet.com /pw/his/grafspee.htm (344 words)

	pocket - OneLook Dictionary Search
		POCKET : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
		Phrases that include pocket: pocket veto, air pocket, out of pocket, patch pocket, pocket battleship, more...
		Words similar to pocket: bag, pocketable, pocketed, pocketful, pocketing, pouch, sac, sack, scoop, net, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=pocket (408 words)

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