41-5-27 Bismarck Sunk

Fairey Swordfish versus Bismarck > .

The Hunt For Bismarck - Germany's Super Battleship > . 
Bismarck Hunting - Pride of The German Fleet - asvp > .
Der Bismarck: Doomed to Fail? - WW2 > .
Sink the Bismarck! - Demise of Pride of the Kriegsmarine - WW2 > . 

Inside The Cockpit - Fairey Swordfish - MAH > .

Bismarck versus Fairey Swordfish
The Bismarck was struck critically by an attack of 15 Swordfish bi-plane bombers, yet wasn't able to shoot a single one down. How was this possible, considering that the Bismarck was the most advanced Battleship of the Kriegsmarine and the Fairey Swordfish a rather archaic and fragile look plane? Was it the visibility, were the Germans just bad shots, was there a problem with the AA guns or the fire control system or other factors?

Bismarck & Denmark Strait; Hood, Prince of Wales

"Scottish pilot who helped sink the Bismarck dies"

"The air strike carried out by the biplanes from HMS Victorious and Ark Royal on 26 May 1941 was said to have been Britain's last hope of stopping the Bismarck.

Mr Moffat described flying through "a lethal storm of shells and bullets".

The air strike on the Bismarck was launched as the battleship headed to the relative safety of waters off the coast of France.

Mr Moffat and his crew took off in his Swordfish L9726 from the deck of Ark Royal and headed for the Bismarck, fighting against driving rain, low cloud and a gale.

Naval chiefs said he flew in at 50ft, nearly skimming the surface of the waves, in a hail of bullets and shells, to get the best possible angle of attack on the ship.

At 21:05 he dropped the torpedo which hit its target, jamming the rudder of Hitler's flagship.

The battleship was forced to steam in circles until the guns of the Royal Navy's home fleet arrived the next morning."

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-38297099 .

41-5-(20-27) Bismarck & Denmark Strait; Hood, Prince of Wales

May 20-23, 1941
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CV1tvMYFRs .
May 24, 1941
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz8pmbytxoQ .
May 24-25, 1941
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJeI5_9c29s .
May 26-27, 1941
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV0NNZbj2QI .

The British escorting destroyers were ordered to the battle coordinates as part of the overall forces sent to intercept the German ships they were detached the evening before the battle

Axis
German battleship Bismarck
German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen

Allied
The British battleship Prince of Wales.
The British battlecruiser HMS Hood
The British heavy cruisers HMS Suffolk, Norfolk
The British destroyers HMS Achates, Antelope, Anthony, Echo, Electra, Icarus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Denmark_Strait .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_battle_of_the_battleship_Bismarck .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_battleship_Bismarck .

41-5-18 Bismarck - Operation Rheinübung 41-5-27

Operation Rheinübung - First and Last Voyage of the Bismarck > .

The Hunt For Bismarck - Germany's Super Battleship > .
Sink the Bismarck! - Demise of Pride of the Kriegsmarine - WW2 > . 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Rhein%C3%BCbung .

Battleship Guns

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Cameronia, Strathnaver, Stratheden

Cameronia

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Strathnaver

passengersinhistory.sa.gov.au

Stratheden

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Catapults - Aircraft Carriers

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How Supercarrier Aircraft Catapults Work > .

24-2-23 Dismantling of USS Kitty Hawk (carrier's components exposed) - nwyt > .

This State-of-the-Art Aircraft Carrier Relies on Old Technology > . 

Are Aircraft Supercarriers Obsolete? - gpol > .

Why Aircraft Carriers Lost One Arresting Wire - nwyt > .

Angled Flight Deck, Catapults - HMS Queen Elizabeth? - nwyt > .

True Cost Of The Most Advanced US Aircraft Carrier - BusIn > . 

STOBAR ("Short Take-Off But Arrested Recovery" or "Short Take-Off, Barrier Arrested Recovery") is a system used for the launch and recovery of aircraft from the deck of an aircraft carrier, combining elements of "short take-off and vertical landing" (STOVL) with "catapult-assisted take-off but arrested recovery" (CATOBAR).

An aircraft catapult is a device used to launch aircraft from ships, most commonly used on aircraft carriers, as a form of assisted take off. It consists of a track built into the flight deck, below which is a large piston or shuttle that is attached through the track to the nose gear of the aircraft, or in some cases a wire rope, called a catapult bridle, is attached to the aircraft and the catapult shuttle. Different means have been used to propel the catapult, such as weight and derrick, gunpowder, flywheel, air pressure, hydraulic, and steam power. The U.S. Navy is developing the use of Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch Systems with the construction of the Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers. Catapulted aircraft land like conventional aircraft, sometimes with the help of arresting gear.
Aviation pioneer and Smithsonian Secretary Samuel Langley used a spring-operated catapult to launch his successful flying models and his failed aerodrome of 1903. Likewise the Wright Brothers beginning in 1904 used a weight and derrick styled catapult to assist their early aircraft with a takeoff in a limited distance.

On 31 July 1912, Theodore Gordon Ellyson became the first person to be launched from a U.S. Navy catapult system. The Navy had been perfecting a compressed-air catapult system and mounted it on the Santee Dock in Annapolis, Maryland. The first attempt nearly killed Lieutenant Ellyson when the plane left the ramp with its nose pointing upward and it caught a crosswind, pushing the plane into the water. Ellyson was able to escape from the wreckage unhurt. On 12 November 1912, Lt. Ellyson made history as the Navy's first successful catapult launch, from a stationary coal barge. On 5 November 1915, Lieutenant Commander Henry C. Mustin made the first catapult launch from a ship underway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_catapult .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_aircraft_carrier .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_Aircraft_Launch_System .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski-jump_(aviation) .