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Bismarck vs. the Royal Navy: How Britain's Warships Were Trounced


Bismarck hit the bridge of
Prince of Wales. Although it did not explode, it killed several key personnel, and for a short period disrupted command of the ship.
The British Admiralty Board of Enquiry into the loss of the battlecruiser HMS
Hood, presided over by Vice Admiral Sir Geoffrey Blake, concluded, “The sinking of
Hood was due to a hit from
Bismarck’s 15-inch shell in or adjacent to
Hood’s 4-inch or 15-inch magazines, causing them to explode and wreck the after part of the ship.”
Director of Naval Construction Sir Stanley Goodall, however, found this conclusion unsatisfactory and in his report pointed out the explosion was observed near the mainmast 65 feet further forward from the aft magazines. A second board of enquiry was convened under Rear Admiral H.T.C Walker. Even given eyewitness accounts that described fires on deck, that board still found a hit by Bismarck being the likely cause, although finishing with, “The probability i ....

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Prien, Bull of Scapa Flow, attacked


(March, 5, 2021) Eighty years ago, this week, U-47 commanded, by Günther Prien, was attacked and sunk in the North Atlantic, west of Ireland, by destroyers HMS Wolverine and HMS Verity. This happened not long after Prien was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander.
Prien, nicknamed the Bull of Scapa Flow, was one of the most daring U-boat commanders, and, by many accounts, probably the most daring submarine commander of any navy in World War II.
In 1939, he and his U-47 became famous for his audacious sinking of the British battleship HMS Royal Oak in the heavily defended British Home Fleet main harbor at Scapa Flow on Oct. 14. ....

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Sitzkrieg: World War II's Strange Beginning in Western Europe


Sitzkrieg: World War II s Strange Beginning in Western Europe
The lull in the fighting on the Western Front in 1940 came to be known as the Phony War.
Here s What You Need to Know: World War II got off to a slow start in Western Europe.
Within hours of the entry of Great Britain and France into World War II on September 3, 1939, the British liner SS 
Athenia was sunk by a German U-boat off the northwestern coast of Ireland, with the loss of 112 dead, including 28 American citizens.
The Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS 
Courageous was torpedoed by a U-boat off the southwestern English coast on September 17 with the loss of 515 lives; the venerable, 29,150-ton battleship HMS  ....

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