What was the disadvantates of the Battleship Hood in its defeat of the Battleship Bismarck near the Baltic?

Question

The Battleship Hood was one of the newest fleet of England during WWII. Then how it was so easily be sinked?

Answer 1

Hey exxon worker--"how it was so easily be sinked"-- you mean "how was it so easily sunk" . Are you a Saudi working for exxon? Anyway, the british battleships in service at that time had been constucted with thinner armor plating (less weight) to gain more speed.

Answer 2

Hood was defeated not Bismarck by a lucky shot. Hood's fire control and light armor protection was 20 years out of date

This is arguable the most famous sea chase in history to destroy a single Battleship, first to protect the North Atlantic convoys from America to Great Britain from annihilation, then from the destruction of HMS Hood on May 24, to avenge the death of 1416 seamen including Vice Admiral Lancelot Holland who command the squadron consisting of HMS Hood and the brand new Battleship HMS Prince Of Wales.

Battle in the Denmark Strait
On paper Holland had the advantage of 18 heavy guns vs eight, but this isn't accurate of the tactical situation the British faced. Prince of Wales was so new she still had yard contractors trying to get the 14 inch guns working and Hood's fire control and light armor protection was 20 years out of date compared to the jewel of the Kriegsmarine.

Holland tried to close the range as quickly as possible to flatten the trojectoires as quickly since Hood's light deck armor wasn't up dealing the plunging shots from Bismarck. The Heavy Cruiser Prinz Eugen struck first blood where an 8 inch salvo started a fire on Hood's boat deck and on Bismarck fifth salvo a shell penetrated exactly where Hood was the most vanurable and set off a major detonation of the ships ammunition which vented forward thought the engineering spaces and touched off the forward magazines

Answer 3

Hood DIDN'T defeat Bismarck. Bismarck got a lucky shot off that hit Hood's main magazine. Even the German crew was amazed and aghast at the result.

Answer 4

First, Hood was not a new ship (commissioned in 1920). The disadvantage was sacrificing heavy armor for speed. Hood was a faster ship but was armored lighter. This circumstance allowed German fire to penetrate into the ship with the catastrophe that resulted (3 survivors of the entire crew)


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Answer 5

You have got it the wrong way round.
Bismark sank the Hood and only three survived.
It was a shell that went down the funnel and blew up the main magazine.

Answer 6

Didn't have the range of the Bismark!