The Rainbow. A World War One on Canada's West Coast Timeline
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Second that.
@YYJ, this is a super TL, as somebody who is posting the Great War in real time on a different place, seeing a alternate journey of the SMS Nürnberg is nice.
Perhaps a spoiler, but Leipzig is only stuck to her OTL actions until midnight Aug 18.
Wow. This day seems like it will live in infamy, given how much the Germans are about to blow up.
Also, I'm loving the amount of research going into this TL. Amazed it's even possible to find this much information about the 1914 layout of a now-abandoned small mining town.
Also, I'm loving the amount of research going into this TL. Amazed it's even possible to find this much information about the 1914 layout of a now-abandoned small mining town.
Are they going to try and block the harbor? Say sink the captured boats, ships, and barges in such a way as to completely or mostly block access to the harbor. Maybe drop a few things that look like sea mines into the harbor around the same area. Don't have to be actual mines. Just look enough like them that before they can even begin clearing the way they have to try and sweep for nonexistent mines.
The pinch point to Anyox harbour is not at the harbour mouth, but at the next ring of islands outward from the harbour, Aiskew and Larcom Islands. There is a narrow passage there, but the depth at the centre of the channel is 377 feet. It does not seem like trying to block that channel is the most efficient use of limited time and resources.
http://fishing-app.gpsnauticalchart...ory+Inlet+boating+app#13.68/55.3836/-129.7600
Deleted member 2186
If i remember correctly, one of the German Cruisers did that in OTL, the dropped barrels filled with san to let it look like they where mines.
By itself it won't notice much. Most likely just purchase more Chilean or American copper. Anyox produced a lot of copper but only a tiny portion of the massive amount of copper the Brits used in WW1.
Probably more damaging to the war effort (though still not hugely so) would be the demand by various isolated outposts in Canada for more extensive military protection and coastal artillery.
Destroying the railway terminals at Prince Rupert or Vancouver would cause much greater harm to the Empire's war effort.The supply of tea to the UK would be greatly reduced!
For good measure
Aug 17, 0500. Anyox BC.
Kampfgruppe Lange was responsible for destroying the docks, but since the docks were also the escape route back to the ships, their sabotage required an elegant choreography. Stabbootsman Lange ordered the walking gantries to be wired for demolition first. He had explosives placed on the two legs facing the harbour, hoping topple the gantries into the bay. He also had a 45 gallon drum of fuel oil inverted on each of the coal barges, including the one almost depleted by Nürnberg, to saturate the coal with oil in preparation for being ignited by a demolition charge. Three other barges sat empty at the wharf. These too he had rigged to scuttle, as well as the 900 ton coastal steamer Amur, which occupied the innermost position of this raft. At 0520, the steam tug Czar, crewed by Nürnberg’s men, pulled away from her berth, slowly transited to the Wharf Two loading area, and began preparations to take the barge Balaclava in tow.
Balaclava, clearly cut down to a scow from a fast transpacific clipper, had been loaded half full with 500 pound blister copper ingots. These ingots were the primary product of Anyox. The 99% pure ingots were bound for a mill in Tacoma, to be further refined and then shipped to the markets of the world. As Czar rigged her tow line, Kampfgruppe Lange rigged the Balaclava to scuttle, and for good measure, the Czar. Finally, the saboteurs brought the lines for refueling oil-fired ships up onto the wharf roadway, and arranged them like firehoses. They also pre-positioned half a dozen 45 gallon drums of fuel oil to accelerate the wharf arson where the fuel hoses did not reach. Then they waited.
https://www.gent.name/bc:towns:anyox:anyox2
Kampfgruppe Lange was responsible for destroying the docks, but since the docks were also the escape route back to the ships, their sabotage required an elegant choreography. Stabbootsman Lange ordered the walking gantries to be wired for demolition first. He had explosives placed on the two legs facing the harbour, hoping topple the gantries into the bay. He also had a 45 gallon drum of fuel oil inverted on each of the coal barges, including the one almost depleted by Nürnberg, to saturate the coal with oil in preparation for being ignited by a demolition charge. Three other barges sat empty at the wharf. These too he had rigged to scuttle, as well as the 900 ton coastal steamer Amur, which occupied the innermost position of this raft. At 0520, the steam tug Czar, crewed by Nürnberg’s men, pulled away from her berth, slowly transited to the Wharf Two loading area, and began preparations to take the barge Balaclava in tow.
Balaclava, clearly cut down to a scow from a fast transpacific clipper, had been loaded half full with 500 pound blister copper ingots. These ingots were the primary product of Anyox. The 99% pure ingots were bound for a mill in Tacoma, to be further refined and then shipped to the markets of the world. As Czar rigged her tow line, Kampfgruppe Lange rigged the Balaclava to scuttle, and for good measure, the Czar. Finally, the saboteurs brought the lines for refueling oil-fired ships up onto the wharf roadway, and arranged them like firehoses. They also pre-positioned half a dozen 45 gallon drums of fuel oil to accelerate the wharf arson where the fuel hoses did not reach. Then they waited.
https://www.gent.name/bc:towns:anyox:anyox2
Destroying actual railway tracks is difficult, and easy to fix. There are critical nodes in the railway system though...
especially difficult in a country that just finished building another trans continental rail line(Grand Trunk Pacific)
Not so much destroying them, as needing to be sent back to the rolling mill
Sherman's Neckties
Lot of work, but a better solution is loading a bunch of rails on a barge and then taking it out to the deep part of the channel and sinking the barge. You can't straighten what you can't get...
marathag
Banned
But a pile of twisted rail is a better F.U. to the Canadians sent in to fix that vandalism later on.