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First R. N. Story Of Battle Of The Bismarck

seemed to take about two hours for those shots to fall.

Splashes shot up opposite but beyond Rodney's fodBIO. I'm sorry to Bay that we all thought "Thank Heavens, sha's shooting at Rodney."

But Rodney's first salvo pro- duced great white columns of water 120 teet high that would desti tyer and sink her like a stone if she steamed through one of them.

A GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTION AGAINST THE BISMARCK WAS GIVEN YESTERDAY BY AN OFFICER PRE- SENT IN H.M.S. KING GEORGE V. START- ING HIS ACCOUNT AT THE TIME WHEN IT break the back of a WAS DISCOVERED BY NAVAL AIRCRAFT THAT THE BISMARCK HAD LEFT THE NOR- WEGIAN PORT WHERE SHE WAS PRE- VIOUSLY LOCATED, HE SAID ADDITIONAL DISPOSITIONS WERE TAKEN TO COVER A FOSSIBLE BREAK OUT INTO THE ATLANTIC.

It was no surprise when Norfolk sighted two German warships in the Denmark Strait, west of Iceland, making all speed southwards towards blue water. A fast squadron, con- sisting of Hood and Prince of Wales, were

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daylight on the following morning.

"You know how Hood went,” he Rodney opened out to port said. "firing every one of her Hittle more, saying "Enemy great guns as she split in two and sight." sunk. Norfolk, who saw it, tells us her very last salvo was a hit." Prince of Wales fought on alone,

All that day and night, into the parly hours of the 25th, Suffolk und Norfolk chased and shudowed

through ice flues, patchy fog, flur-

ries of snow und intermittent rain

squalls. There were two separate long range cannonades and at one point fire was visible in the after part of the enemy battleship.

Meantime King George V was pounding along with spray ying right up over the bridge and baking care there was no wisp of smoke to give her away too early to the enemy.

Aircraft Score Hit

The aircraft carrier Victorious was in the chase too and as soon as she was within air range she flew off torpedo carrying air. craft. Those, at 2 o'clock on the morning of the 25th reported one hit.

Within one hour of this news, however. the Bismarck and it:: companion cruiser Prince Eugen. had slipped away from the pur- suers in the treacherous half-dark and northern mist. The Bismarck was lost for 314 hours and then picked up by a Coastal Command | lyingboat.

Soon afterwards Ark Royal's aircraft were on her track und escort ships from convoys and ships from little ports in all corn- ers of the North Atlantle were closing in to help in the chase.

As daylight on the 28th closed in Ark Royal flew off u striking force of torpedo-carrying aircraft. This force, however, wuś unable to locate the target and a second striking force took off,

if

"Great Slab Of Rock"

"I watched Rodney to see he was being hit but she just sut There like a great slab of rock blocking the northern hori – zon what suddenly belebed a full salvo,

I actually saw the projectiles

seconds after they had left the

balls curving up and

Byingthrough the air for some guns like little dimini hing font- the sky.

up

info

Now I was sure that Tour or Ave it. There was only a great splash and a sort of furry of spray and a splash which might have been 1 waterline bil."

"The Bismarck turned north, steaming about 12 or 14 knots. We kept turning in and out to a confuse the enemy range-takers, all the while closing range rapid- ly.

in

of

There was a sudden shift wind and a squall of rain, Ad- miral Tovey saw it first and gave orders to alter course.

With

The Admiral kept on saying "Close the range, get closer, get closer. I can't sec enough hits,'

Somewhere about the eighth salvo

the there was a fire on

focsle

the

torn

opened fire

a cracking roar Rodney which seemed to envelope

with her 18-inch upper turret and one observer us and an instant later King says he saw a huge plate George V let fly with her 14-away from the tail of it. inch. The Bismarck fred all The Bismarck turned away four gung from the two forward and then back, writhing, it seem

ed, under the most merciless hail of high explosive armour plereng

hells that any ship

turrets.

hus

ever

The Germans have a reputa... tion for hitting with early faced. salvoes. Now I know what But there was 1307 escape for suspended animation means. If the Bismarck British Wireless.

DORSETSHIRE'S PART IN KILL

Accurate, rapid and devastating fire from a ship much smaller than herself pre- pared the way for the final torpedo attack on the Bismarck. Describing the action of the cruiser Dorsetshire, her second gunnery of- ficer said:

"We opened fire at long range at 9.5 a.m. and kept up a ceaseless pounding until we had drawn into close range. By that time the Bismarck was in a hopeless state but her en- sign was still flying.

scene

the

She had ceased firing and the Although only narrowly miss- only thing left to do was to sink ed, the destroyers hung on until At last, learning that torpedo her with torpedoes.

dawn they fired torpedoes, hits had been obtained by

the

We fired three and a moment Maori scoring on the forecastle. second force, King George Vafter the last had hit her she The destroyers remained on the turned at once to close with the turned turtle and began to sink.

bombardment while the

enemy.

The Germans told us our gun- was carried on by Rodney, King

a terrific surprise to George V and fire was

Dorsetshire As the last light died

the them."

and assisted in rescuing German cruiser Sheffield and the des. The Bismarck fired four salvoes sailors until the presence of sub- troyer Cossack and her flotilla

to steam at Dorsetshire but they all passed marines caused them alld quietly into night shadow- overhead and soon after the Nazi away." British Wireless. ing positions.

battleship was heavily engaged

a

by Rodney and was unable to Sheffield Straddled ufford attention to the cruiser.

Describing the actual coup del Sheffield quickly received

grace the officer in charge of the blast of 15-inch gunfire

which operation said: "We had closed straddled her. She was too big in to short range and the captain and too visible and had to sheer told me to give. her two. I was off, for at that short range a sin- astonished when the torpedoes

gle accurate salvo would easily hit have sunk her.

home

Bismarck

THEN AND NOW, NOW AND THEN

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the dainty little laxatives, correct The destroyers, though often engaged, were Iess visible and We went around to the other the trouble gently yet thoroughly. Taken now and then Pinkettes less vulnerable. As night wore side at 10.36 and I let her have on they put two or three torpedoes another. When that one hit she keep the liver active and help to into the Bismarck.

began to list and quickly turned ensure regularity within. They over to sink.

dispel constipation, banish bilious- When, at last, daylight appeared Earlier in the day the Bismarckness and remove the congestion there were patchy rain squalls had been subjected to torpedo which is the cause of sick head- and a tearing wind from the attack from three destroyers who ache, flatulence, furred tongue, pimply skin, dull eyes, bad breath, north-west-with-e-rising sea. had been shadowing her.

After a little manoeuvring Nor- folk appeared to eastward signall- ing "Enemy in sight 12 miles south of me."

As these destroyers - Maori, 2100m, ill-tamper Cossack and.another went In to attack they wara, vigorously sholled by the Bļamarok's main armaments,

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