Replying to a message of Phil Payne to Frank Haber:

 PP> From: Phil Payne 

 >> Curiosity question:

 >> Thinking back to accounts of chasing down the Bismarck, etc., I
 >> remember
 PP> being
 >> struck by the fact that the ?Hood, was it, had to stop chasing because
 >> it was running out of fuel.  I also seem to remember that it had only
 >> been steaming 1000 mi. or so. So,

 PP> Bismark blew the Hood to smithereens with her second salvo.

Not quite true.  If memory serves one hit started a large fire in after
torpedo stores and either that fire or another hit detonated the after
magazines, which tore the ship apart.  If memory serves there were 3
survivors.

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