Comments by "" (@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684) on "Extra History" channel.

The wreckage of her bridge would have sheared off due to the drag of hydrodynamic forces as she plummetted 17000ft to the sea floor.
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indeed, same as the US. Many of their early WW2 tanks also had bolted armour.
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There is no shortage of those who while personable and even charming on the outside while inwardly salivating at the thought of power... it really is a drug, quite often for narcissistic psychopaths, such as Justin Trudeau.
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Or indeed lose contact with Bismarck after an hour while the other 4 destroyers of her flotilla (HMS Cossack, Maori, Sikh & Zulu) continued to engage Bismarck throughout the rest of the night.
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The ship was USCG Modoc, she was a part of the US Neutrality Patrol, and she wasn't "nearly attacked" as the vid suggests. The Swordfish from HMS Victorious, which were carrying the world's first naval air to surface radar, were flying in cloud, the squadron leader's telegraphist alerted him to a contact, and the leader, Eugene Esmond dropped below cloud base to ID the contact. He immediately recognised it as a neutral, but as he "eyeballed" the Modoc, his aircraft was spotted by lookouts on the Bismarck which was a number of miles away, and so lost the element of surprise in the Swordfish's attack on Bismarck.
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Hood's deck WAS armoured. 3 inch thick, compared to Bismarck's 4.
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If Bismarck had attempted to pursue PoW she would not have made it as far as she did.
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How?
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That's exactly what Lütjens attempted to do.
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Piorun engaged Bismarck for 1 hour before withdrawing. It was the other 4 destroyers from her flotilla (HMS Cossack, Maori, Sikh & Zulu) that engaged Bismarck all night, keeping her crew at action stations and leaving them even more exhausted and demoralised for the following morning's showdown.
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As did the other 4 destroyers of her flotilla, those being HMS Cossack, Maori, Sikh & Zulu.
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Where was the "surrender"? Her battle standard was still flying high as she capsized. I think more of the thousands of unarmed merchant sailor's lives that were saved by Bismarck's destruction.... she was after all only interested in destroying unarmed merchant shipping. It would have been better if she'd stayed in port all her life like her "sister".
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Wrong.
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NO, you mean implacable.
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Its likely that the remainder of Bismarck's crew did scuttle her, BUT what they scuttled was a devastated 51000 ton mountain of flaming, sinking scrap metal. All guns silenced, her superstructure devastated, her main armour belt broken and penetrated in several places, her command staff physically obliterated, internally aflame from end to end, her stern and port gunwales already underwater, a thousand of her crew dead, and further hundreds of her crew already in the water behind her.... All that any scuttling did was to sink her a few minutes earlier than was already happening.
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Though they were each given a weeks home leave before returning to active service... no "safe spaces" back then.... Just heroic effort.
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Not in May 1941 she wasn't.
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And indeed the other 4 destroyers of the 4th destroyer flotilla (HMS Cossack, Maori, Sikh & Zulu) who engaged Bismarck for the WHOLE of the night of the 25/27th May 1941.
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Not ANOTHER delusional?
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Hood was Longer. But Bismarck was larger both in beam and displacement.
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@ybet1000 9 months prior to Bismarck's sinking there was a HULL of a larger ship without any superstructure or weapons fitted, floating in a fitting out basin in Kure shipyards in Japan. Let's set Bismarck against that floating empty hull and lets see who wins shall we? You'll find that even at the time of Bismarck's sinking, Yamato was not in any way, shape or form a "working" battleship. You seem to have trouble with chronology. As I said in my original reply, if you're going to ignore the timeline then forget Yamato, MANY ships very much larger than her have been built since. But if you take chronology into account, then at the time of her sortie into the Atlantic then Bismarck WAS the largest battleship in the world. Lets have a car race..... I'll set my functional 1930's Austin A7 against your Bugatti Veyron, but your Veyron is one that has been taken off the production line before completion, without an engine, transmission or wheels.... which one is the "car" and which is not?
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@ybet1000 But there WASN'T a ship twice it's size already launched... and you coming out with that fallacy doesn't make it true. You stated the video was talking BS, and as it turns out, it wasn't. Sorry you don't seem to be able to handle being wrong.
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Yamato wasn't "in the chat" in May 1941.
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@poketuber2261 Where does it say that?
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@poketuber2261 Re-read my post.... Yamato was NOT in the "chat" in MAY 1941, havng been commisioned into the IJN in December 1941 (in case you're confused that's SEVEN months AFTER Bismarck had been sunk)
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The fact it is mentioned at all is surprising. She engaged Bismarck for just one hour and forgot to use her torpedoes. The other four destroyers of her flotilla engaged Bismarck for the entire night before the final battle. Can you name ANY of the other 4 RN destroyers?
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But forgetting to use her most powerful weapon, her five 21" torpedoes.... and them getting lost in the darkness and losing Bismarck.
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HSwMS Gotland, a seaplane cruiser built in 1933, and finally scrapped in 1963.
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Not really.
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It wasn't a 45 minute "happy birthday" message. Lütjens had many operational matters to discuss with naval high command onshore, though he also felt the need to make long report on the Denmark Strait engagement and was finally told by the naval high command to finish his report as they were aware from British radio traffic that the RN had lost contact with Bismarck, which Lütjens had not suspected.
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While the standard of MSM documentaries has dropped through the floor in the last 15-20 years, there is some utterly FANTASTIC content created online that ranks amongst the finest coverage of historical events.... you just have to be discerning in what you choose to watch on YT, there's plenty of rubbish out there as well obviously.
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