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trying to go over that list. In my head we had design flaws, we had rushed schedules, we had air attacks than we had torpedoes, but this epoch it's gonna, combine. All of that. We have all for those things in one ship, plus a really heavy dose of revenge which always make the good past ass before we get to that, though we're gonna set the scene for a little that an early night forty one. The United States was still nearly a year away from entering World WAR two, but the cat provided vital wartime supplies to the allied nations and to do so. American merchant ships had across the Atlantic to get to Europe, and this Broken chain of supplies was really vital for the United Kingdom since there an island nation, yes, but we all know pretty much how effective the german you boats were at disrupting this chain thinking the merchant ships, but the The navy also knew that having a few massive battleship thought there would make the black haired a whole lot

around England. So that's why, in May in eighteen, forty one, they found the battleship Bismarck and the cruiser prince each Jan two blockade Breton. That's pretty scary. The kid at this time the Bismarck the most feared worship in the world yet launch pretty recently before that. Nineteen, thirty nine and it was a tough, very thick armor, very fast and armed with very, very big guns and had an efficient crew the top equipment. It was like the ultimate shipyard. Everybody knew it too, and the first volumes of his memoirs, Winston Churchill wrote that finishing on two new british battleships, the king George, the fourth and the Prince of Wales with vital because quote they arrive Of the Bismarck on the oceans before these two ships were completed would be disastrous in the highest degree as it can neither be caught nor killed, We therefore range freely throughout the ocean rupturing all

the unification. Just in case Churchill quote, isn't enough for you. There's a national geographic peace, titled northeast super ship describing this marks, I think that gives you a pretty good idea of what kind of vessel. That's of I'm intimidating. So May nineteen, nineteen, forty one the Bismarck and the Prince eugene- are deployed from golden often on the Baltic Coast, in their planning to wine their way around to the Atlantic. There then spotted off the coast of Norway by Broil AIR Force reconnaissance about they slip away before anything can be done so the british home fleet, virgin onto the Atlantic to try to stop the ship in their covering all the rules that they can. It cannot let them Mark get out into the open sea. There is no sign of the ship for days and then finally on May twenty third, the cruiser Norfolk sites that this mark in Denmark Straight- and this is perfect, because the Prince of Wales Does the new british battleship that England was rushing to complete as their along with

destroyers and the battle cruiser heard here and the herd was a type of battle cruiser that then develop before a world where wine and this type of ship was really fast, designed to outrun ships. That comes late, not quite as well armoured as other as some other ships were nevertheless, the british really liked the battle cruisers and had built credit, of them during the war during World WAR, one and the hood was built in nineteen eighteen, the thirteenth and final bridge. Battlecries there, but even though she needed a refill by this point, she was still kind of a point of pride for the british and she had been sent out with the powerful, but still untested, prince whales, kind of protection guidance. You know they they would tag team I got, So the day after the cruiser Norfolk learn said, the Bismarck is an area, the prince of Wales spots, the german battleship the headphones. First but she's, going too fast to be really accurate that this on the other hand, has stereoscopic range finders. So a hit

causes an explosion and a huge fire. The ship then breaks the two and sinks. All of a sudden and all that three of the one thousand four hundred nineteen men who are on her die here, and so the hood thinking means that its pay back time now for, british and even after was worried that with the bismarck on the loose all sorts of damage may feel. He was actually afraid that the Bismarck might come bombard, Halifax or New York City, or maybe it would on the world and go to Japan, or maybe it would even take Martinique, though there are all sorts of gloomy thing, It is about what the Bismarck on the loose might do, church response there was pretty definitive, think the Bismarck. So this is revenge. The literally revenge right because one of the ships that the british Deploy is actually called revenge, the battleship revenge from Halifax and sent to the situation, but the british action

play most of their available warships. At this point, I take them off of their original missions, so joining the revenge or the battleships Rodney and the families, for example, which leave behind convoys and head straight to the situation which I have to imagine, it would be pretty scary to be out in you: boat filled water if you're one of these convoy than you thier, battleship and most of the destroyers fail on off all the you're, not comforting, they can't spare any of them, though. Meanwhile, the best it has a few different options about what she can do. Admiral, third chance can take out the injured prince of Wales which we now stand a little bit of damage during the faint battle that thank the hood, though they could finish off the prince whales and then go back to Norway for repairs and refueling or the Bismarck. Kid out into the Atlantic and the plan

could be too had to France for repairs and possibly resume the blockade operation from their because winning a France, he'd have a say. Shot than for the Atlantic and the admiral chooses this an option going out into the Atlantic and eventually trying to get over to France. The Germans are off converging a lot of their fleet in the area to so they know that the british want to think the Bismarck in there bringing every available worship they can into the area, so the jury thinking, if they put all of their available you both in the area the Bismarck might be. The trail all these british ship into a trap of thoughts. If the you both stretch across the ocean create a net of sorts. It could be really really disastrous for the British there's a big problem, though, with the planned you're. The best is running low on fuel and it becomes clear that there will be just enough for them to get to France. None for the true. Or, more importantly, for any diversions and to make

situation more complicated on May twenty. Fourth, tiny swordfish plans are launched from the aircraft carrier victorious at or It causes minimal damage, but it's the Bismarck's first casualty gathers. Actually the first sailor is is killed aboard the Bismarck, though literally its first casualty, but the next day the Bismarck reduces its speed and starts performing some repairs clause, its accumulated a few problems play, and also engages a little bit with the Prince of Wales, even though neither ship is ultimately had that. Though the Bismarck finally manages to shake off the british ships that have been nearby and breaks free and the british ships lose contact, unfortunately, for the mark. They realise that the British have lost that radio cod yeah they lost their signal. They don't know where they are, but the Bismarck doesn't know that yes, so they keep sending messages that that get all bunch together and end up coming out in one voice

very long signal, and by the time, their warned that the Brits ACT did live contact in and by the time they start. Containing that strict radio silence it's too late. The British have already picked up on the signal again. Yes, so, though, the mood is actually Mary on board the Bismarck that night Hitler even sends a birthday message to add religions, but by then morning patrol aircraft find the ship the Bismarck still the chance, though, to make a break for France at this point. There is no way that the british ships that are nearby can catch up with them unless the Bismarck slows down considerably is slow down right, but the best the British, have seized their aircraft carrier, the Ark Royal, to deploy more tiny swordfish planes with torpedoes yeah. In this time, those swordfish plans get two heads and one of them jams the business

twin writers and makes it so she can't maneuver any more and it will be impossible for her to get away just by the way you might want to look up the swordfish plans. They really look kind of like both the wood biplane super tiny, especially when you see them compared to something the size of the Bismarck. It's pretty striking felt the ship, the Bismarck the bombarded through the night by nearby British and polish destroyers, but they're no heads by the next morning The rod me and the King George, the fifth arrive and open fire. The Norfolk arrives. Pretty soon join then than the cruiser the doors that sure and ultimately so to our long attack with Rodney even getting into pointless range by the Bismarck. Ultimately, two thousand eight hundred and sixty seven shells are fired on the ship, but it just won't go down. Finally, though, the Bismarck does go down in its three torpedoes from the door said sure. That's incur the morning of May twenty seventh with the cap

saluting on deck and the flag flying so just to give you an image of what that would have looked like some people, though, have suggested that the Bismarck was scuttled by her own crew yeah, instead of being thank by the the allied ships that, regardless the cat and had already given the order to abandon ship and around eight hundred people on board managed to escape from other survivors. You can actually see interviews, taped interviews with some of the survivors and they were count working really deep inside the ship their stations and eventually realising that the British were shooting more and more and they were shooting less and less, and when the ship with violent it was, time to go and they pay their way out of the labyrinth? I mean this huge ship. You can imagine what it might be like under that all and further who made it onto the dac, of course, they're still the bombardment going on for their mental everywhere in their body than they try to protect themselves behind and her and finally

With eight hundred who survived not really that many manage to ultimately escape and be rescued, the bridge Ships picked up a little more than one hundred men, but then they the area. After a uber scare, some accounts even say that men were in the process of being hauled up when the british ships had hey that men were in the process of being hauled up when the british ships had to leave a little bit later. You boats and a spanish heavy cruiser come around and find a few more guys, but Yeah. There were only one hundred and fifteen men of the eight hundred that escapes the which were rescued toothache. Two hundred officers, and men were killed The survivors, of course, than are prisoners of war. They were in here again and kept his prisoners for for the rest, the war I dont think that their too much information that was attacked from them now they seem to be like they were

knowledgeable about their own immediate job, but not how the whole ship operated but Royal Navy nevertheless considered thinking the Bismarck to be one of its biggest accomplishments is still pretty highly regarded, and that's partly because the battleships seemed invincible. But clearly something went wrong for this each monster ship to ultimately be taken down like that yeah. So what was it? Well? Some people think that the business just might not have been ready. She had straining time at sea due to the severe winter of nineteen. Forty one- and there was no more- for a long time. Basically, her schedule was absolutely inflexible. It wasn't even enough time to put her through the complete battery of naval ordinance task. Some of her are tillers fire control and radar equipment was actually installed too late to test. Even so, there was no way to know me. I knew from the stuff that was tested didn't see, entirely up to snuff the report,

which was filed ironically four days after the ship had already funk made. A hundred seventeen observations and recommendations regarding improvements to weapons system than A lot of these were minor, but there were few pretty serious ones and some regarded the ammunition that was pretty telling, because the Prince of Wales had actually been struck by several german dad's. That suggests a problem in the autumn word anti aircraft artillery made up one third of the suggestions and if we think about those swordfish, not a single swordfish, was shot down so clearly, even though the Germans were firing pretty heavily on them, there was a pause from there, and I think the report even noted that there were the correct and he aircrew technical manuals and diagrams on boards are not even the literature they needed habit. Of course,

these recommendations, came way too late and that to take away here where that, even though it went down eventually, the Bismarck was remarkably Tophet withstood a constant barrage four hours, while the herd had gone down in just a matter of minutes, yet just wasn't equipped to fight aircraft me not seemed like the thing that kind of early dead at an enemy. Clearly, that was also a hint that Europe's power would be the future. The war months before a Pearl harbor even happen. So I guess historically, that's probably one of the biggest interests in the Bismarck that it's the hint about and that coming later in the war. But in since this is a shipwreck we gotta we gotta close out with our are fine, there's, always after story and half in ITALY in Tina. Eighty nine rob Ballard. The famous explorer discovered the Bismarck six hundred miles off the french coast at fifteen thousand feet and within very good shape. Still, he had of course found the tape

in just three years earlier and then in two thousand for the hood with located and both of the ships were touched out of respect for the dead, but they were thoroughly photographed and video and documented. I think you can look up a lot of pictures of the two of them in get diagrams and in a people of figure out what exactly went wrong now, what were the fatal strike than what explosion occurred on the herd and just China pieced together? What happened? Chips to both of the sites were also sort of memorial services too, because there were still survivors of both of them and at the hoodie Memorial plaque, with actually released by it full living survivor at the Time That was one of the most interesting things about researching this episode. Seeing some of the survivors account, then you can eat The pictures of the men in the water from the Bismarck trying to get aboard the doors that sure well,

you know grabbing the rope than grabbing under floating things. It's pretty scary, looking without about. Does it for this shipwrecked many serious that we ve put together here with covered a lot of cool shipwrecks, and thank you to everyone for all of your great suggestions and were holding onto the rest, so hopefully until more podcast animal. I think we realised from doing us that all of these, even though we did a lot of medical as a list, a lot of these make great stand alone. Pied costs. We want to save their ass, so we can cover and fully that later on. The Bismarck was ultimately intended for a less business to Irish isn t long. The stories to guide but, like I said to you, gotta, covered here and we're gonna, now move on to the ceremony of kind of an beat listener mail that want to clear out on such a ending its

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