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HOW

WE SANK

THE BISMARCK

THE Hood, commanded by Caplain Ralph Kerr, CBE, made contact at 5.53 and with the 35,000-ton battle-

to Prince of Wales closed

a engage. Action was joined at range of about 13 miles. Hood, ac- cording to the Bismarck's prisoners, fired Orst, the salve going over.

ship

A second salvo from Hood fell short, but the third: hit, and three shells struck the Binmarck.

One shell entered the port side, above the water line, and exploded on the starboard side, making a six- foot hole under the water. About 3,000 tons of water entered the ship, and tons of fuel was lost.

the The

The second shell struck on port beam below the water. third passed over the deck, carrying away many boats.

Bismarck had Вте on, the Hood with

end shell,

with

Meanwhile the

opened

nrmour-plercing

Great accuracy.

The first salvo was 100 yards short, but the second straddled and fit.

SANK IN 4 MINUTES

The third salve again straddled

and hilt, and a fire broke out in the Hood's port battery and spread to the mainmast.

There was huge explosion be- and the the after funnel two:n mainmast, and the ship blew up and sank in four minutes.

First round to the Bismarck, The Prince of Wales was next hit. Everybody on the compass

killed WAB

On May 27, seven years ago, Germany's greatest battleship, the Bismarck, was sunk in the Atlantic on her first and last cruise, This is the story of the battle told by the officer who com- manded the cruiser which fired the final torpedocs into her.

The Bismarck, pride of the German Navy, was launched at Hamburg in the presence of

The commerce-" Hitler on February 14, 1939.

raiding cruise on which she was sunk, bogan of May 19, 1941. On this raid she sank the British battle cruiser Hood, but was never able to sink a single merchantman,

Accompanied by the cruiser Prinz Eugen, and under the command of Caplain Lindemann with Admiral Lutjens on board, she was spotted, and hunted from the moment she left the Norwegian ford into which she had slipped from Germany, and early in the morning of May 24 H.M.S. Hood forced her into battle.

by

REAR-ADMIRAL SIR BENJAMIN MARTIN, D.S.O.

·COSSÄCK•

platform captain.

the

RODNEY

excent

He decided to break off the action temporarily to reorganise his bridge. The Bismarck made no attempt to retain contact,

think.

marck

mistake many

There was jubilation In the Bis- when the sinking of the Hood was announced, and conferred the Knight's Insignia the Iron Cross on the first gunnery offeer.

Hitler

of

The chase continued south- west, the Prince of Wales Joining the cruisers Norfolk and Suffolk in shadowing.

Here there appears to have been an argument in the ship between Admiral Lutjens and Captain Lin-

demann.

nccording

to

one

Lindemann, prisoner, suggested putting back to Bergen. He was overruled.

The Prinz Eugen was ordered to part company, while the Bismarck went south.

At 6.47 p.m. on the same day the Prings of Wales orain engaged briefly at long range.

TSHIRE

SIKH

ZULU

PIORUN

KING GEORGEV

BISMARCK

TO BREST 400 MILES

SHEFFIELD

PARK ROYAL

In this diagram are worships present at the trapping and sinking of the Blemarck.

Fuel shortage was causing anxiety

•

Dotween six and seven on the morning of May 27 the Bismarck had settled down to about ten knots. Tho Commander-in-Chief British Home Fleet decided to approach on a bearing W. N. W.

At 843 the enemy came in sight. about 25,000 yards away. Tho Rodney opened fire at 8.47, follow- ed one minute later by the King George V." and at 8.69 by the Bis- marck

Bismarck furned to star- board, bringing all her guns on the Rodney. Her first four-gun salvo fell 1,000 yards short but the next salvo straddled

The

The accuracy of her fire then deteriorated. She wna, howoves. still firing steadily at the Rodney at 8.50.

The Rodney had straddled the Bismarck, but it was not until 8.57. priconera, that sho according to sustained her first hit

My ship by this time had joined in the action and made hits at 19,- 400 yards.

being Bismarck's The

fre was controlled from the upper direc- tor tower, but after 25 minutes of a most unequal contest the tower was hit and wrecked

Lieutenant Frelherr won · Mul- lenheim-Rechberg, senior surviv- ing oficer. belleves that this hit came from the Dorsetchiro,

He believes the Dismarck could have held her own against the Rod- ney and King George V. had it not been for this hit, which, metaphorl cally speaking, blow out the Bl marck's brains.

OVER-ESTIMATED FIGHTING VALUE Frankly, I think he over-estimated the fighting value of his own ship and under-estimated the Rodney's ability.

COLLIER'

841

Joves ART

SIBLEY

JOHN AST JIULTY.

Strategic Territory

In Desert

By ROBERT D. GRAFF United Press Staff Correspondent> Seventeen French PARIS. foremost

soldiers are holding on to a

At 0.2 a 10-inch shell from the Rodney struck the Bismarck for- ward, putting both the turrets out of action.

it was now all over barring the piece of land in the Sahara no- shouting.

The Bismarck received bigger than the state of Texas. forrifle punishment. Both the Rod-It has great strategic value in ney and myself continued to pile wartime and perhaps hidden oil armour-piercing shell into her until

Was

to bo

zan.

in

the range was down to about 4,000 reserves worth millions below

the shifting sands. yards.

Bismarck was a blazing wreck, a The area is known as the Fez-

of mass

twisted steel Hatches

It doesn't show on most and doors were jammed.

Crews in two magazines were maps as such, but it is a huge

territory stomach-shaped rising. trapped, temperaturo The probability of an explosion southern Libya extending up in: aban-a narrow corridor to the sea be- They now tried to steer the ship caused rescue work

tween Tripoll and the castern Now the aircraft carrier Victor in our battleships. The battleship by ber engines, but soon, instead of doned.

Orders were given to flood the border of Tunisia. lous approached. A torpedo attack King George W now in the chase, going on her south-easterly course,

What makes Fezzan impor- was launched by seven Swordfish

were drowned. aircraft supported by five Fulmar had only 32 per cent, left, and the she was actually north-west of her magazines, and the imprisoned men

Rodney reported that she would position. monoplanes.

The captain, asked by the engi- "In the forward canteen 200 men tant is that it connects Algeria. On hit was scored on the star- have to part company next moming.

Severni U-boats were in the area, neer commander whether he should were caught under jammed hatches, and Tunisia with French Equa moment when onotorial Africa. It gives France board aide against the armour plating, but, did not penetrate. One and the Admiralty had indicated attempt to blow off the jammed At the very

that heavy attack from the air was rudder with an explosive charge, hatch was freed, a direct hit crash a solid block of territory be replied: "Do what you like. I bave ed through the deck, transforming tween the Mediterranean and man was killed in the Bismarck.

A tremendous barrage was put to be expectatore, essential to finished with 167"

It man, up to

WEB, allow a

n Eumclent reserve of fuel to enable the battleships to reach home ports at reasonably high speed.

Blemarcis also was short of fuel.. She had left home 2,000 tons down

up, according to one 50,000 rounds being fired.

Our pilots courage astonished the men in the Bismarck. One aircraft, after being hit, tried to get into position to release its torpedo before plunging to destruction.

The Bismarck broke away to the west, worked round the stern of her shodowers and set a course for France. Sly had a start of about 100 miles. Her speed was reduced to 22 knots.

EXPECTED

•

AIR ATTACK The Rodney, called up from tho south-east, seemed to have a ten- sonable chance of interocpting, and were in-

craft

·

HIS REPLY

TO HITLER

the canteen into a charnel hou150.

According to one prisoner, not ports along the West African one of this group survived.

coast such as Dakar, Accra and Lieutenant von Mullenheim Lagos.

signal arrived from Hitler: "All our in

victorious (a grave error); a further 1,000 tons, thoughts are with our it was estimated, had become useless comrades." following the Hood action.

In the midst of this uproar a Rechberg told me that personnel. It makes a continuous wartime

gun turrets were demoralised,

supply Une possibic. Any oil that saying: "Why should we stay hero might be found beneath the sand

would be an added prize.

Seized in 1942

the

In 1942, Gen. Jacques Philippe Leclerc's second armoured..division. marched to the Mediterranean from

Lake Tchad. En route he occupied. moved out.

18 target practice for the British?" To this the admiral replied: "Ship

One prisoner said that an officer It was, therefore, improbable that unmanoeuvrable. We shall fight to shot some of the crew who refused

the last shell."

to obey orders. Another prisoner more than 500 tons remained,

The Bismarck's. speed was now referred to oficere committing barely sufficient-to-steam-to-Brest.

suicide Optimistic rumours swept through not more. ihan-10 to 12 knots.

She continued on her erratic When it was ceen that the Ble the Bismarck. A large flight of

fring

marck was quite disabled, German bombers and a swarm of Surse during the night,

intermittent salvos at our destroyers. Rodney and King George V. ceased U-boats wore coming,

An announcer tried to bolster are and withdrew.

The Dorsetshiro camo up close burning, DS: "One destroyer hit.

on the starboard side of Bismarck. TWO followed morale by making much statements

It seemed to me that although destroyers hit, burning, sining." And a large ship hit, burning, she was a wreck, she might float for hours. I decided to anish her off

There are many signs pointing: No British ship was hit during and two torpedoes were fired into

that way. her, storboard side.

The French last month. this night.

One struck under her funnel, and issued an Algerian airmail stamp were The crow

alarmed, and a

showing a plane flying over a map of the Fezzan.

An 508 for fuel was sent out and

sailed, ally received that a tanker had

full gale was blowing from the sinking," the battle cruiser Renown and Bir south-west, and heavy seas were

carrier Ark Royal structed to move up into the Bay st air striking force from the sinking." of Biscay,

Ark Royal failed to And the On the morning of May 25, Ad- Bismarck. miral Lutjens told his crew that the

British would be able to concentrate their ships and force an action.

A

A second force, 15 Swordfish with

torpedoos, was sent in. First reports message

It was, he said, up to the crew said no hits; but the Bismarck admiral to the captain:-

death to be true to the

the suddenly turned north. to Fuehrer. If the worst came the Bis- Two, and possibly three, hits had marck must be scuttled:

Incorrect information from shore

by

DIVED TO AID.

SURVIVORS

the

the Fezzan. The French have, never-

Diplomatic sources close to French Foreign Ministry say France intends to stay there, even should the rest of Libyn be returned to victorious alles.

Italy by agreement among the

ная passed from the the other further aft.

The French also have sealed the "Please inform crew that early

Fezzan off from the rest of Libya in the morning 81, Junkers-87

on the

been made. Or.c

To make a quick job of it I turned by erecting road blocks torpedo hit the aircraft will join us in addition to

ono tugs and the two

tanker. The

French. starboard quarter and wrecked

military government in Tunisia. bases, made worse by a clerical error sicering-gear, Jamming the rudders U-boats have received orders to close round her bows and ared one more roads south of Tripall which force

with the Bismarck; the K.1 has into her port side. Immediately traffic through Tunisia.

Bismarck heeled over slowly, her currently is responsible for feeding. In transmission, now resulted in the and causing the Bismarck to turn

nlready arrived." Bismarck losing half a day on her slowly in large circles.

Whether this was true or not bus keel uppermost and her stem point-Its 17 men and for controlling tho

ing upwards at an angle of about tribes in the wind-swept Fozzan course.

One prisoner said this lost half- day made all the difference be tween disaster and safety. I am inclined to agree.

At 10.30 am. the day after, Bismarck was again sighted, time

.

PLIGHT WAS DESPERATE

of The method the, proaching simultaneously this number of points was teadly.

Whichever way the Bismarc

She by a Catalina aircraft. was alone and about 550 miles west turned she was exposed.

of Land's End.

attack-ap-

from

never been discovered.

The admiral did, however, appear 30 deg.

On receiving the Catalina's signal pilot and one air gunner wounded. grounded and nights with little the water my navigating ofleersaw the United States and Great Britain

enemy.

days

reason

Arabs Aroused to have revived spirits, for one She hung so far a'minute or two, at 10.38 slowly disappeared prisoner wrote in his diary: Everyone and

Naturally, the Arab nationalist is now eagerly awaiting the aircraft beneath the waves, 400 or 600 men movements in North Africa promised by the Fuehrer."

excited. Boating off the ship.

At Cairo, Arab League to noto It is interesting

the" I began picking up survivors. My headquarters has made a formal childlike faith the crew had in Hitler. men worked hard in heavy веля,

ever left and one of my own afficers dived Protest with the Allied Treaty Commission dealing with disposal of No aircraft was lost, and only one No German destroyers

and their Brest,

Afr Force was overboard to assist survivors.

Italian colonies. the British circle of shipy at once

When we had pulled 85 out of by weather. Those in the

However, diplomatic sources said Bismarck knew shaped course to Intercept the that the plight of the ship was or no sleep had exhausted the a maplelous object. It might have presumably for strategie

desperate.

Bismarck's crew. All over

had to op are known the been a submarine. My ship, the cruiser Darset-

to favour French It was announced that the man shire, was 600 miles to the south who succeeded in freeing the rudders ship men were asleep.

possession of the Fezzan. west, escorting convoy from would be given the Knight's Insignia

know that The scene on the bridge before ton but to withdraw.

It may be of interest to

That

means, those sources said, Freetown.

when my ship was sunte in the that despite any shouting and fuss, Indian Ocean with survivors float-France probably would end up in.

of tho territory ing about in the water, a German possession float plane working from a Japanese grabbed during the last war, Germans. Bismarck Vegan

aircraft

French eyes are less on the last: carrier..

machine gunned. start running they run hard. I felt, gun-laying dimeult.

officers and men.

war than on the possibility of tho have an example of next war and such cases as Cha- Hiero

you therefore, that my convoy was in Gun crows, who had been almost sign of Captain Lindemann, nor any

would provide since officer of the admiral's staft. The the difference in training and mun- dames and Anat Blamarck or continuously on watch

excellent airfields for transport and I decided to go Bergen, were becoming exhaunted, ship's company, says this prisoner, tal outlook of the British and Ger-

planes and heavy bombers. for the Bismarck.

One man went insana.

were now past caring.

go for the with my convoy.

Blamarck

ΟΙ

to centro

I had to decide whether I should of the Iron Cross and they managed dawn was described by an officer: navigating officer and the "T10 rudder, the other one continue remaining jammed.

senior Met. officer lay at their ato- the

swell, the tions like dead men."

The helmsman stretched besido to roll, making

the useless wheel. There was no

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