Derek Pullem
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Just finished reading "Voices from Jutland" (Jim Crossley) and was surprised by the statement that the RN BBs could not use their primary & secondary guns at the same time, as it was the same men who were meant to be manning both - the assumption being that they would only have one problem at a time!
The HSF fully manned both primary turrets & secondary batteries with separate gun crews.
Is this is correct then in the OP the RN would not be able to fire at both HSF BBs & BCs while fending off the TBs / DDs - unless, of course, they denuded the bow turrets of men to man the secondary casements.
Has anyone else found a separate source for this?
Never heard of this - I have heard that there were insufficient naval gun crews to man all the guns as traditionally the Royal Marines manned at least one of the main guns and some secondaries.