[Teacher317]

One of those WWI vintage slugs took down a massive state-of-the-art ship that had just torn the vaunted HMS Hood in half in a handful of minutes... in an era when battleship battles could take days to resolve.

Too amazing for words. To me, it's one more example of Divine Intervention in that war.

[Strategerist]

The Bismarck was actually largely based on a late World War I design, and had numerous design flaws, including very poor anti-aircraft armament, and a weak stern.

There’ve been too many “Nazi Supership!” documentaries on the History Channel and whatnot. There’s a reason the Bismarck was in Anthony Preston’s “World’s Worst Warships.”