Talk:HMS Ulysses (novel)

Ending
Didn't they FAIL to hit the U-Boat? Their glorious charge ended due to misfortune? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.225.240.87 (talk) 09:48, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

The charge at the end was to ram a German 'Hipper Class' cruiser (not a U-Boat), whom they'd encountered earlier. Their sinking before reaching it was caused by an explosion that may have been a torpedo, fired from an unseen U-Boat. —Preceding unsigned comment added by TimS00 (talk • contribs) 12:33, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Edits needed
There seems to be a little too much opinion in the article. The sentence "The ship was extremely well armed and one of the fastest ships in the world" is this talking about the dido's or the fictional book. Either way neither could be classed as extremely well armed or anything like the fastest ship in the world.

Also the word predictably appears a number of times in the write up, isn’t this opinion? I will make changes in the next few days Sams37 (talk) 22:42, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Aggressive editing
A sentence was removed for lack of citation. There is a cite tag that is better used for such things indeed there is a reason why it exists. Considering it took less than a minute to use Google to locate http://www.hmsglowworm.org.uk/ where one can read
 * On 8th April 1940 The British destroyer HMS Glowworm, alone and outgunned  took on the German  Heavy Cruiser Admiral Von  Hipper and her destroyer escorts. In spite of the heavy odds against her she  managed to score hits on her mighty opponent and in a last act of defiance she  rammed the Cruiser before she sank.

For maximum effect there is even, and get this, a Wikipedia article called HMS Glowworm (H92) that describes this in detail. --13:07, 18 April 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.164.178.85 (talk)

Citation 2 Removed
Linked to a spam website. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.115.215.44 (talk) 03:30, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

PQ 17?
The article claims that the “ill-fated PQ 17...provided the basis for the novel”, a claim repeated in the plot section. I don't know where the idea came from, but it shows a scant knowledge of the history of the Arctic convoys. In the novel Maclean managed to include every mishap that ever beset the Navy on the Murmansk run: Bitter cold, ice (PQ 14), a massive storm (PQ 13), attacks by a U-boat pack (JW 58 and others) by aircraft (PQ 18 and others) and a German cruiser (JW 51B and JW 55B), and a sortie by the Tirpitz (PQ 12). Plus several that never did; attacks with glider bombs (the action off Vigo) from Stukas (the Kanalkampf) and Condors (the Fliegerfuhrer Atlantik), and a mutiny (well, more of a strike, really; the Nore mutiny). What the fictitious FR 77 didn't suffer from was a disastrous order to scatter, resulting in the loss of many of its ships (the defining tragedy of PQ!7) Maclean mentioned PQ 17 a couple of times, and added a lengthy footnote, but if he intended to base the book on that incident he had a funny way of showing it. So I've taken it out. Xyl 54 (talk) 23:15, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

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