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As I understand it, the Bismarck was scuttled to keep the British from boarding it.
Exact.
As I understand it, the Bismarck was scuttled to keep the British from boarding it.
Yep, rudder was jammed on 12° backbord.The steering had been damaged by a torpedo and was no longer operable.
The superstructure was heavily damage with large loss of life.
And what’s the point of all this?
Forgot to ask. What difference makes this in result?
Here's the link to explain the Bell as simply a centrifuge for the bomb project:
https://sites.google.com/site/nazibelluncovered/
This is probably the all-round best explanation of the Bell, anywhere.
I confess that even the 'dumbed down' scientific explanations in this are heavy going for me. The take-away is that yes, there was some super secret sh-t going on connected to the German A-Bomb project (this bell thing had the highest known war priority and secrecy classification in Nazi Germany, which by itself is notable), but there's not much to support flying saucer bases in Antarctica, time machines or Adolf kneading coconut oil onto Eva's hard-to-get-at bits by a pool in Buenos Aires.
I don't see how it could have been much worse for the " . . . old Hood . . . . " as she was mortally hit shortly after the batlle began. If I remember correctly, only a few crew members survived her rapid sinking. Maybe the ammunition magazines were hit? Hard for it to have been much worse for her.And some words on the Battle of the Denmark Strait, because it's not mentioned often.
If Bismarck wouldn't have scored any hits on Hood, Prinz Eugen would have continued scoring hit after hit.
If Hood would have stayed afloat, Prinz Eugen would have surely set her whole deck on fire. The 8" guns were super accurate. If a fast Hipper-Class cruiser got a bead on you, you better start zick-zacking or getting out of battlefield.
Yes, the 15" guns were accurate and powerful, but the 8" shells were a different story. And if Scharnhorst or Gneisenau (or even both) would have been there, instead of Prinz Eugen, imagine... That could have been much more bitter for brand-new Prince of Wales, too.
But for old Hood, it would have been worse, anyways.
And Lütjens held on the strict order to avoid battleship dogfights and forbid Lindemann (and Brinkmann) to hunt Prince of Wales. They would of course have...
I don't see how it could have been much worse for the " . . . old Hood . . . . " as she was mortally hit shortly after the batlle began. If I remember correctly, only a few crew members survived her rapid sinking. Maybe the ammunition magazines were hit? Hard for it to have been much worse for her.
At the time the Bismarck was the fastet and most feared of the German battleships. The British got lucky in that battle by damaging her, which lessened her ability to fight when the British caught up with her a few days later.
. If I remember correctly, only a few crew members survived her rapid sinking.
At the time the Bismarck was the fastet and most feared of the German battleships.
You haven't watched enough WWII war movies. Had you watched as many as my friends and I did in the 50s and 60s, you would know the Bismarck was the fastest, the most dangerous and the most feared of the German battleships.* We didn't know the names of any of the others.Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were the fastest. And same way dangerous for british units. No wonder, Royal Navy hated the fast "Sisters" and used every chance to damage them.
38.000+ tons (in action) <> 150.000 to 160.000 SHP