Footage of the Bismarck firing upon the Hood, and Bismarck under fire from the British fleet
Also, I do believe that HMS Vanguard was a larger ship than HMS Hood.
Hood was a battle cruiser. She should have never been put anywhere near a real battleship. It was practically criminal that she was.
If you are interested in naval ships and battles and stuff like that I highly recommend a youtuber named Drachinifel. He’s covered the Hood extensively. And he doesn’t inundate you with clickbait.
This site is a joke and is probably getting its stuff from Drachinifel.
Good song way back called, “Got to sink the Bismarck” or some such.
... the battleship, which was sunk by a ring of British warships.
“HMS Hood took several direct hits – the first of which were from the Prinz Eugen . . . “
As best I know, the Hood had 15 inch guns, and the best the Prinz Eugen had was 8 inch guns - how did they let the German cruiser get within firing range?
Large numbers of casualties came fast in those naval battles.
"We didn't sink the Bismarck,
No matter what they say.
For when we saw the German ship,
We sailed the other way."
HMS Hood has 12 inches of main belt armor which was comparable to the Queen Elizabeth class of battleship. The previous battlecruiser class the Renown had a maximum belt armor of 6 inches. Some would classify HMS Hood as fast battleship. There are many theories why Hood exploded. The most current popular one is a 15 inch shell from Bismarck penetrated the deck armor igniting magazines.
***A total of 2,200 German sailors were lost, while just 111 were rescued.***
When the British navy stopped to pick up survivors it was reported a periscope had been seen. Believing it may have been German the British left the scene and the Germans in the water died of cold.
So are the rules of war.
Just a bunch of navel gazing.
Kind of like the U.S.S. Biden.