capturing ships

[Stid]

yea but the vichy french ships werent captured were they? i just thought they were french who were sympathisers with the nazis.were they run by french or german captains?

 

[Chukchi Husky]

wasnt that sub that held the enigma machine captured by the british reused to attack the bismark or did i completely make that story up?

The poles, led by Marian Rejewski began to break Enigma in the eary 1930s, and after 1939 the Ultra Project at Bletchley Park intercepted and deciphered Enigma messages.
The battleship Bismarck was found by British reconnaissance aircraft off Bergen in May 1941.

 

[Stid]

soooooooo basically i must of dreamt it? thanks lol

 

[NP300]

yea but the vichy french ships werent captured were they? i just thought they were french who were sympathisers with the nazis.were they run by french or german captains?

France signed a peace treaty with Germany in 1940. They had no choice as they had been utterly defeated. Vichy France was therefore a neutral state. Petain REFUSED to join the Axis alliance even though Hitler wanted him to.

The French navy remained in French hands. But the allies decided to attack neutral France anyway (along with neutral Iraq, neutral Iran, neutral Norway and probably a few others I forget) and this included the French navy.

 

[jst666]

Give me pirates, matey!

http://www.atari.com/pirates/pirates/home.php?lg=1
You just gotta hold on a while

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Ships could be manned, so if no one is on the ship, it could be captured.

 

[Lennon]

Vichy French ships where attacked by the americans at Casablanca during Op Torch

That is because Vichy troops in general were attacked by Americans (and Britons), as West North Africa (er, Northwest Africa, that is ) was part of Vichy France. The Allies invaded Vichy, hence also having to deal with part of their fleet.

 

[Stid]

ahhhh i should really have done history at school its all starting to make sense