We’re a long way from Nelson. We’re a long way from Jutland. We’re a long way from the force that dogged engaged and sank the Bismarck. We’re even a long long way from the Falklands War. The RN as an effective sea-going fighting force simply does not exist. Sad sad…
“We’re a long way from the force that dogged engaged and sank the Bismarck.”
They fought hard and won. The Royal Navy sank the pride of the German Navy. Just a hat tip reminder, it was a Lend Lease PBY Catalina, secretly flown by a US Navy pilot, that found the Bismarck after the HMS Hood fight. It was secret at the time because we were not in the war yet. Then later eclipsed by events of the war, it slipped down the memory hole.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_B._Smith