The Bismarck was a vastly superior ship to the Hood.
Yeah, I am confused now, and not even cracked the first lager. Hood had serious issue with deck armor, in that she had little, it meant range fighting was more dangerous for her as distance trajectories meant she was more vulnerable to such deliveries. That such a delivery found a magazine and detonated it, ripped her to pieces. I suppose the problem with bluffing is, eventually someone calls it. Cost all but 3 lives on Hood.And again, 1 vs 1 Bismarck was vastly superior.
And the irony,
Enforced Radio silence meant the Norfolk and Suffolk weren't summoned alongside Hood and P.o.w. so sheer bloody minded belligerence over ruled hundreds of years of the exact tactic that could have saved so many lives. The charge of the light brigade once more.UK's entire naval strategy for hundreds of years was to employ force of numbers at greater speed against powerful ships such as the Bismarck and they were very very good at it.
