Time to celebrate Boxing Day!!! While I have no idea what the holiday is actually about, there was a famous battle that occured on this day, in 1943. The German Battlecruiser Scharnhorst was retiring from raiding an Artic Convoy when the British Battleship Duke of York and some British Destroyers happened upon her. First Duke of York utterly annihilated her topsides, then the Destroyers finished her off with torpedo. A great victory for the British, and Vengeance, for the Carrier Glorious and her escort.
Boxing Day!!!
But why boxing? Did the Brits come aboard and start boxing all the Germans around?
Bloody hell Kraken, you should be a bloody historian the way you go on about historical events. Ever though bout that?
Yes. Although I did miss some dates in November, Pacific War wise. I don't know why, but one day (or rather, in a period of about a month), I just really got into the WW2, and more recently, WW1, Russo-Japanese War, and Crimean war Naval Battles. Just a strange fascination of mine.
Oh, and Sully......The Battle isn't called Boxing Day, it just occured on the British Holiday of Boxing Day. (I think it is the British equivalent of Labor Day). The actual Battle is called the Battle of North Cape.
Ohhh please don't make christmas about history and the germans and battles. PLEASE DON'T.
Boxing day is the day all the rich people let their servants off to celebrate Christmas over in Merry Olde England. Therefore the boxing up of presents.
Boxing Day is so called because, on the day after Christmas, the collection boxes used in the churches throughout England , which had been collecting alms for the poor , were opened and shared out.
The boxing bit comes from the Alms Boxes.
The boxing bit comes from the Alms Boxes.
So a British fleet succesfully chased down and destroyed one German ship and crushed her with superior numbers?
What a stunning tactical victory.
What a stunning tactical victory.
