Talk:Operation Paravane

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Redevelopment

I'm developing a much more detailed replacement for this article at User:Nick-D/Drafts12, and will likely post it here in the next day or so. Any comments or edits before it goes live would be most welcome (as would comments and edits after it's posted, of course). Nick-D (talk) 07:38, 27 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This has now been posted. Nick-D (talk) 09:46, 28 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Other ships

The first picture ("A British Lancaster bomber over Kaafjord during Operation Paravane") shows three ships in the fjord. What were the other two, and what became of them?

Not sure this actually shows ships - they could be smoke floats. While there were several other warships present, no sources mention them being damaged. Nick-D (talk) 09:37, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reply. (I'm the one who forgot to sign the earlier post.) I've done a bit of poking around, and actually found an answer here on Wiki -- apparently they were the flak ships Thetis and Nymphe. 71.235.184.247 (talk) 15:17, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure about that either - Catechism targeted Tirptiz after she moved to a different port with less well established anti-aircraft defences and had been basically written off by the German Navy. While she was at Kaafjord it was common for repair ships to be moored near her, with the supporting destroyers and flak vessels being moored a bit further away. Nick-D (talk) 22:31, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The pointed ends lead me to believe they were ships -- I would think that smoke floats would more likely be square-ended barges, though of course the Germans would have used whatever was available. As close as they are to Tirpitz, though, it's amazing that they weren't hit by bombs that missed the intended target. 71.235.184.247 (talk) 15:26, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't seen any sources which discuss where the bombs which missed the battleship ended up, despite this being studied fairly intensely for operations Obviate and Catechism. Nick-D (talk) 22:31, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Possible tweaks

Hi Nick-D, just read this again before TFA tomorrow and have 3 questions...

ref 93 Bishop 2012, pp. 341. - is there more than one page or should be singular?
Tromsø (twice) - should wlink be refined to Tromsø (city)?
dispatch v despatch - there are 3 x 'dis', 2 x 'des'

Thanks Nick, JennyOz (talk) 12:22, 14 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@JennyOz: Thanks a lot for spotting these - I've fixed them all. Regards, Nick-D (talk) 22:11, 14 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]