Talk:Nelson-class battleship/@comment-2605:A601:4586:6300:882C:1C64:F989:A0A8-20190408070549

I'm wondering where some of these fantastic numbers come from:

Rodney's Main Battery being "...credited with an estimated 100 to 130 hits" on Bismarck!

and this:

"Rodney also successfully torpedoed another battleship when one of its [sic] TWELVE 24" torpedoes hit Bismarck amidships".

What???

In which universe did all this happen? In an online computer game, maybe?

Rodney **fired** her (not "its") 24-Inch torpedoes at Bismarck, but no authoritative source I know of even states it as plausible that she scored a hit. Where did the number TWELVE come from? That would be six salvos of her torpedo armament!

And what source assserts that Rodney landed "100 to 130" 16-Inch shells on Bismarck? Really?

Sources, annotation, and some fact-checking are in order here. Very disappointing. 100 16-Inch hits would have sunk even Bismarck, heavily armoured as she was. She would have been literally pounded to pieces, rather than just figuratively.

The Home Fleet sank Bismarck. The heavy ships and 8-Inch Gun Cruisers beat her into helplessness, and then between the shell damage, the 8-Inch Gun Cruisers torpedoes, and the German crew's scuttling charges, Bismarck went down.

Try reading up on a justly famous sea battle.