Sink The Bismarck WW2 Classic

Battle sequence in which the English ship HMS HOOD takes on the German Battleship Bismark and losses big time. True story! Update 6/28/10: typo fix. Thanks for letting us know..

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Film & Animation

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• navy

[kenc1161]

Interesting to note is that the Hood was never able to fire a full broadside at either German Ship, and that Lutjens was hesitant on giving the order to fire even after the Bismarks gunnery officer requested twice. Lindemann intervened and stated ""Ich lasse mir doch nicht mein Schiff unter dem Arsch wegschießen. Feuererlaubnis"!. (I'm not letting my ship get shot out from under my ass. Open fire!).

[kenc1161]

@StormBurn88 Actually The Prinz Eugen scored the first hits on the Hood at 5.57 with a salvo from her 8 inch guns that struck aft and started a large fire, after firing a total of 6 salvos at the Hood she was ordered to shift her fire to the Prince of Wales and scored the first hits on her with her 2nd salvo. Bismark kept fire on the hood and at least one shell from the Bismarks 5th salvo penetrated the Hoods deck armour reaching the rear magazine which finished her off in less then 8 minutes

[RFKFANTS67]

2:10 lol that's gonna do alot of good guys lol

[kuribayashi84]

2:51

Admiral Holland: "Blimey!"

[CanadianKeiffer]

@goshoone "Sink the Bismarck".

[goshoone]

What's the name of the movie. Please

[kenc1161]

Janes Fighting Ships pretty easy to look up, and should take you about as much time as it did to respond to a post that was not even directed at you. If you need some help just input British Fleet 1939 order of battle...

Enjoy yourself

[admiraldma]

@kenc1161 I dont know where you get your numbers?? We did NOT complete 9 battleships/battlecruisers during ww2. Only the 5 KG5 class, and if these are not included in the 19 you quote at start of war, then that means we had only 10, not 19. All we had during the war was. 5 Revenge class, 5 QE class, 5 KG5 class, Hood and the two Repulse class ships = 18 in total, yet you say 19 + 9 more completed in war?

[kenc1161]

@kenc1161 But imagine having to deal with 19 or more of the Bismark Class Battleships, scary to think they had 11 of these in various stages of construction.

[hogalog]

@kenc1161 oh aye, since 1066 nobody has succeeded.... and we were usually fighting among ourselves for most of that time ;) i live in county durham and the amount of castles and battlefields from the wars with the scotch is incredible.... theres also still evident bomb damage from world war 2 in sunderland, hartlepool and middlesbrough.

[kenc1161]

@hogalog The Brits have been destoying foes attempting to cross the pond since the begining of time, Id say they are pretty freaking good at it...

[kenc1161]

@kenc1161 British Fleet 1939 19 Battleships/Battlecruisers 9 more competed during war including 5 KGV class. 7 Aircraft carriers 6 more completed 15 Heavy Cruisers 41 Light Cruisers 9 more competed 8 AA Cruisers 16 more completed 113 modern destroyers 24 more completed 68 old destroyers 53 modern subs 11 more completed 54 escorts 80 more completed 44 minesweepers 10 more completed Pre-Dreadnaught 2.

It was sheer madness to take that on with the 119 ships they had...