With a small apology to Hood, I had hoped not to run across any more fictional Hipper Class Cruisers...
Charles Whiting (Pen name: Duncan Harding), Flotilla Attack, 1976
United Kingdom (WW I)
HMS Attack
Heavy Cruiser, class not specified
8 inch main battery.
No other details provided.
HMS Scarborough
Town Class Cruiser?
Details as per the real ships.
Note: Class assignment solely based on the name.
United Kingdom (WW II)
HMS Blackamore
B Class Destroyer?
Details as as per the real ships.
Note: Class assignment solely based on the name.
HMS Defiance
Tribal Class Destroyer?
Constructed as Destroyer Leader.
Note: Described in the novel as a being a Tribal "...of the "D" Class." in the novel
HMS Daring
Tribal Class Destroyer?
Details as per the real ships
Note: Described in the novel as a being a Tribal "...of the "D" Class." in the novel. Name clashes with the D Class Destroyer of the same name.
HMS Destruction
Tribal Class Destroyer?
Details as per the real ships
Note: Described in the novel as a being a Tribal "...of the "D" Class." in the novel.
HMS Darling
Tribal Class Destroyer?
Details as per the real ships
Note: Described in the novel as a being a Tribal "...of the "D" Class." in the novel.
HMS Rose
Destroyer, class not specified
Launched 1920
Single funnel
Speed: 31 knots ("A good five knots behind the Tribals at least")
Twin turrets (A, B & X), Original 4.7 inch? main battery replaced with a 5 inch main battery in 1940.
Germany (WWI)
SMS Koeln
Battlship, class not specified
SMS Koblenz
Battlship, class not specified
SMS Kassell
Battlship, class not specified
Germany (WWII)
Braunschweig
Hipper Class Cruiser
Details as per the real ships
Note: Explicitly identified as such in the novel.
Unnamed
Ten S-Boats
Details as per the real ships.
Plot summary: The year is 1940, an officer trying to overcome a family disgrace dating back to the Battle of Jutland, finds himself given command of a destroyer with a reputation as a hoodoo ship and thence into a desperate struggle during the German invasion of Norway.
