![]() ![]() The range clocks on board were set to a specific range and that's what produced the hit, ergo, that was the range. citing eyewitness testimony (or more likely, not knowing the actual original source of the information). There really isn't, the confusion has to do with people citing gunnery logs vs. This is contested primarily because Warspite was a) not under director control (FAO) and b) it was against land targets, not sea targets, and c) Rondey might have a longer ranged hit on D-Day. This is further supported in Iain Ballanytynes 'Warspite: Jutland Hero to Cold Warrior" where the range is cited as 26,000 meters (28400 yards).Īdditionally, while contentious, there is a further longer range hit on a moving target, not a ship, also made by Warspite, during the shelling of Walcheren where she landed several subsequent direct hits on Panzers advancing on the landing grounds at a range of just over 30,000 meters. Warspite thus had the longest confirmed hit in history by almost 2 km. In his book "Warspite" he cites the ships' book/log of the Gunnery officer, as the plotted range was 26,300 meters (28700 yards) as at the moment of firing. The actual range as calculated by the gunnery station, whose information was not reported until after the ships book had been completed (Read: when the ship was actually scraped) and recovered by Roskill, who literally wrote the book on Warspite. Commander Charles Lamb who witnessed the battle from the relatively unmolested position of the Port Admiral's bridge (he was the chief AA officer and at Calabria, had little to do but observe). Warspite's shell hit is longer, the oft cited source came from the AAR of LT. ![]()
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