[SnuffaBolshevik]

"Like the HOOD. One shot."

Bad news when your magazines are hit.

What were there, 2 or 3 survivors?

[yarddog]

The British Navy got so incredibly lucky in one lucky hit that jammed the Bismark’s rudder. I sometimes wonder if it was divine intervention. Another couple of hours and it would have been under German Air umbrella.

Then again Hood was equally unlucky tho from what I have read, the Bismark would have sunk it anyway.

[Bender2]

Re:

That's not the HMS Hood above.

That's HMS Barham , a Queen Elisabeth Class Battleship, sinking on 25th November 1941. She was the only British battleship sunk by a U-Boat. The film of the Barham capsizing and blowing up is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HSY94QVIss

[rmlew]

HMS was actually hit twice. And unlike the Hood, which was 22 years old and in dire need of a refit and upgrade, HMS Daring is brand new.
And yes, only 3 crewmen of HMS Hood survived. Naming a battlecruiser after an admiral who died, when his battlecruiser was sunk at Jutland was inauspicious, only slightly less so than naming said battlecruiser "Invincible."

[jmacusa]

Actually this is a photo of the H.M.S Barham torpedoed off the coast of Egypt in Nov. of 1941 by the U-331 commanded by one capt. Freiherr von Tiesenhausen. The ship listed to starboard a few minutes after being hit and the main magazine blew up taking a lot of her crew with her. Poor blighters.