273: War at Sea '41 Pt. 11 - The End of the Mighty Hood
History of the Second World War

273: War at Sea '41 Pt. 11 - The End of the Mighty Hood

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 2, 202624 min
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The Battle of the Denmark Strait opened with British fire directed at the wrong German ship before Bismarck and Prinz Eugen concentrated their guns on Hood. This episode follows Hood’s catastrophic destruction, Prince of Wales’s withdrawal, the damage inflicted on Bismarck, and Admiral Lütjens’s decision to abandon the commerce-raiding mission and make for France while the Royal Navy remained in pursuit. Credit Logo Image: ⁠⁠https://www.flickr.com/photos/state_library_south_australia/3331881750/in/album-72157623232407924 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello everyone and welcome to History of the Second World War, episode 273, War at Sea 41, part 11, the end of the mighty hood. This week, a big thank you goes out to Mark Michael Lancer 1983 for supporting the podcast by becoming members. Members get access to ad-free versions of all of the podcast episodes plus special member only episodes roughly once a month.

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Head on over to historyofthesecondruledwar.com slash members to find out more. When Captain Kerr of the HMS Hood would order his gunnery officers to open fire 30 seconds after 552 a.m. on May 24, 1941, one, this moment would mark the beginning of the Battle of the Denmark Strait.

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The range between the targets was less than 25,000 meters, about 16 miles, within the range where it was possible that the ships would be able to land hits on one another. On the British side, both the Hood and the Prince of Wales would first target the Prince Oigen, under the false belief that it was in fact the Bismarck that they were shooting

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