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    Aug 27, 2021 2 minutes

    Hunt the Bismarck

    Angus Konstam

    At 0600 on the morning of Saturday 24 May 1941 a salvo of shells from the German battleship Bismarck pierced the side of HMS Hood, igniting some of the charges in her after magazines. The subsequent blast ripped the ship in two, making the much-loved Hood a great steel coffin for 1,415 of her crew. There were only

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