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Nobody knows how many of those hits it took to inflict fatal damage. Just because you stick 20 torpedoes in a boat doesn't mean that it wouldn't have sunk eventually after the first one or two. At this point in the war, the American carrier TFs had a "plethora" of aircraft and often not enough seagoing targets to aim them at.ORIGINAL: Richelieu
Historically, these two Juggernauts were hardly sunk.
Historically, these two Juggernauts were hardly sunk.
ORIGINAL: mlees
Historically, these two Juggernauts were hardly sunk.
Umm, the ships ended up on the bottom like any other sunk ship. Is "hardly sunk" sorta like "a little pregnant"?[;)]
I assume you meant "hard to sink".
Yes, I wanted to say "hard to sink". My english is quite aproximative...
ORIGINAL: Tiornu
Hood didn't have weak steel. She jack-knifed because an 80m section of her hull basically vaporized.
ORIGINAL: Tiornu
Only God knows for certain, but there is no way to explain how a shell from Eugen could have done it. The 8in was a nose-fuzed HE shell that could not penetrate. It simply caused a fire. This fire was no threat to the ship; in fact, the skipper ordered his men not to bother trying to put it out. No one has theorized any possible way for this fire to walk its way down into the vitals of the ship and cause an explosion.
Hood exploded just after a 15in salvo landed around her, a salvo which reportedly was missing a splash or two. Since this indicates that one or two shells did not hit the water, there are few alternatives; either they hit Hood, or they found themselves drawn through a rift in the time-space continuum.
Really, there's no credible explanation for Hood's loss other than the boring one--she was blown up by a really big shell.
ORIGINAL: Tiornu
There is no end to all the weird theories for Hood's loss. A couple years ago, an author claimed PE sank Hood by dropping a shell down her stack; how an 8in shell might be coaxed into plunging straight down from the sky, he did not try to explain. There are at least two versions of the Hood Blew Herself Up theory. I even found one guying trying to say Norfolk did it.
Oy!
The Admiralty conducted two inquiries into her loss, and every reasonable possibility was considered, including the fire among the AA ammo and an explosion of Hood's torpedo weaponry. They gave concientious attention to the possibilities of the 8in shell starting a chain reaction, but the evidence was pretty conclusive. The recent exploration of the wreck didn't raise any new possibilities. The matter is pretty much settled, or should be. But the novelty of a heavy cruiser destroying a giant battleship is too attractive for some folks to give up.
ORIGINAL: Skyros
The sunk by shows the last weapon to hit the Yamato. She was obviously hit by more than one torpedo. The intelligence report underesstimated the hits.
ORIGINAL: marky
after all
HMS Hood was sunk by 1 hit fdrom the bismarck
ORIGINAL: Richelieu
ORIGINAL: marky
after all
HMS Hood was sunk by 1 hit fdrom the bismarck
Right, but you can't establish comparisons...
HMS Hood was a lightly armoured first WW1 Battlecruiser,
the Yamato was the biggest battleship and the sturdiest ship ever built...
And her technology was post-washington treaty...
This 64000 tons of steel Monster could not be sunk by a single torpedoe !
