The Bismarck
Sir,—l read with interest Mr Harry Franklin’s account (June 16) of the Bismarck sinking. I happened to go aboard the battleship King George V in Iceland’s Hvalfjord not long after the sinking and was shown the slightly buckled deck armourplating for’ard of the main gun turret; not caused by enemy action but by blast from the salvoes of her own giant guns, firing ahead at zero elevation — so close then was the range for a capital ship. I imagine the result may have had something to do with Bismarck’s demise. It always amazed me that the redoubtable German Navy sought a kind of self-esteem in scuttling (e.g. Graf Spee, December 1939), or claiming to scuttle, severely threatened or doomed ships, action which would have been considered questionable, or even disgraceful, in the navies of any of the Allies. — Yours, etc., D. P. K. RENNICK. June 19, 1989.
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