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HMS Hood Wreckage
01. 30. 2012 16:52
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Re : HMS Hood Wreckage
02. 05. 2012 12:46
AndrusN
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Originally Posted by jubdub1
Originally Posted by Sindher
Jubdub, please for gods sakes, shut up!
Hood was sunk just like Invincible and Queen Mary at the Battle of Jutland.
The only known record of a battleship being sunk or hit by a torpedo is Bismarck.
Also, 3 survivors from Hood, POW's sailors and Bismarck/Prince Eugens sailors have all given accounts of what happened. Survivors >>>>>>>>> Wikipedia.
Shell hit, penetrated our magazine stores, Hood went bye bye.
If two BRITISH boards inquiries summed up that the results of how the Hood was destroyed were inconclusive, and THAT doesn't persuade you, then I don't know what will. . .
First thing I learned while in history class is to read between the lines. The fact that 2 boards said that they where not sure what happen, back in the what? 50's? due to the fact that they could not look at the wreckage, nor did they seek out and eye witness's for any stories. Bullocks! They just didn't want to admit at that time, that they got bested, by a ship that everyone said, would sink the Bismark, if they were to stand toe to toe. Guess not!
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Re : HMS Hood Wreckage
02. 05. 2012 18:09
ChicagoBears
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Originally Posted by Lionel2
Originally Posted by ChicagoBears
What killed the HMS Hood was a single armor piercing round fired from the Bismarck which ripped through the armor of the HMS Hood and struck an ammo locker for the main guns causing the shells there to go off which created an explosion so massive it ripped the whole ship in half. Before this a shell had hit the AA ammo lockers causing an explosion and killing several sailors but what got the Hood was the main ammo locker exploding.
I don't like the way that JD is going with this thread, but he's right. Your oversimple explanation isn't accurate. There are many theories on why the ship exploded and one of the leading possible causes is that the secondary magazines exploding are what destroyed the ship and that the ammo locker for the main guns was not even hit. It is now also believed that the damage to the turret/lockers were from the fire spreading and the Hood's last "shot" as it was sinking came from that other secondary explosion.
I was basing this off of a documentary i watched on the history channel.
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Re : HMS Hood Wreckage
02. 05. 2012 18:15
ChicagoBears
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Originally Posted by jubdub1
Originally Posted by ChicagoBears
What killed the HMS Hood was a single armor piercing round fired from the Bismarck which ripped through the armor of the HMS Hood and struck an ammo locker for the main guns causing the shells there to go off which created an explosion so massive it ripped the whole ship in half. Before this a shell had hit the AA ammo lockers causing an explosion and killing several sailors but what got the Hood was the main ammo locker exploding.
Oh my... you act like you know for a certainty. If you had actually read this whole thread, Chicago, you would have realized THE EXACT CAUSE IS UNKNOWN. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid. Yours too, AndrusN
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid." Someone needs to thorw you off of your high horse.
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Re : HMS Hood Wreckage
02. 05. 2012 19:02
AndrusN
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Originally Posted by ChicagoBears
entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid." Someone needs to thorw you off of your high horse.
+1
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Re : HMS Hood Wreckage
02. 05. 2012 23:26
fokker
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Originally Posted by Sindher
It's a well known fact that us Brit's didn't care about safety and just left doors open. A shell hit, it exploded, the end. Bismarck was capsized by wussy Germans.
The finest Navy in the world that could kick every other navies ass routinely exhibited poor damage control procedures? Go on, your making that up. : P
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Re : HMS Hood Wreckage
02. 05. 2012 23:41
fokker
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Originally Posted by Sindher
Jubdub, please for gods sakes, shut up!
Hood was sunk just like Invincible and Queen Mary at the Battle of Jutland.
The only known record of a battleship being sunk or hit by a torpedo is Bismarck.
Add Prince of Wales, Royal Oak, Barham, and USS Oklahoma as being sunk exclusively by torps.
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Re : HMS Hood Wreckage
02. 06. 2012 07:13
Sindher
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Originally Posted by fokker
Originally Posted by Sindher
Jubdub, please for gods sakes, shut up!
Hood was sunk just like Invincible and Queen Mary at the Battle of Jutland.
The only known record of a battleship being sunk or hit by a torpedo is Bismarck.
Add Prince of Wales, Royal Oak, Barham, and USS Oklahoma as being sunk exclusively by torps.
I am noob. I always thought POW was hit by bombs rather then torps. Royal Oak? Not really the same is it? It was sunk by a sub.
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Re : HMS Hood Wreckage
02. 06. 2012 15:41
jubdub1
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Originally Posted by fokker
Originally Posted by Sindher
Jubdub, please for gods sakes, shut up!
Hood was sunk just like Invincible and Queen Mary at the Battle of Jutland.
The only known record of a battleship being sunk or hit by a torpedo is Bismarck.
Add Prince of Wales, Royal Oak, Barham, and USS Oklahoma as being sunk exclusively by torps.
And pretty much every other US battleship during Pearl Harbor, i.e. the Utah, West Virginia, and California.
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Re : HMS Hood Wreckage
02. 06. 2012 17:28
Lionel2
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Originally Posted by fokker
Originally Posted by Sindher
It's a well known fact that us Brit's didn't care about safety and just left doors open. A shell hit, it exploded, the end. Bismarck was capsized by wussy Germans.
The finest Navy in the world that could kick every other navies ass routinely exhibited poor damage control procedures? Go on, your making that up. : P
You are way off base with that comment. Indeed, going back to the beginning of dreadnought battleships, the RN gunner departments were cutting corners to get an edge. Thats why their ships were the fastest firing. You should go back and read the last few pages of this thread. Also, if you care not to listen to the posters here, go read for yourself about the massed number of RN capital ships that were lost due to not following these procedures.
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Re : HMS Hood Wreckage
02. 06. 2012 20:17
fokker
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Lionel
If your comment was directed to me, then you missed the emoticon where I was chiding Sindher for his past comments on these forums that in effect stated that the RN was a god that all other navies should bow down to.
The RN had poorly designed ships in WW1 with bad damage control procedures that theese problems were still not corrected in WW2.
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