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Originally Posted by Randomizer
Of course posting anything negative about Bismarck, darling battleship of the Internet Forums is likely to result in accusations of trolling and flaming but it's a chance to take. The objective evidence indicates that Bismarck was an inferior design sailing on a doctrinally flawed and poorly executed mission while being badly handled in action to boot. The myth of Bismarck makes her a super-ship in some sort of Wagnarian drama that came within a hair's breadth of winning the war at sea. Readers choice...
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Yup. I agree. The old Japanese battleship
Hiei (1914) took a hit to the steering gear during the confused night battle off Guadalcanal in 1942 and spent a full day circling helplessly northwest of Savo Island, enduring up to 70 aerial attacks by US torpedo and dive bombers before sinking during the night. It's still not know whether she sank from scuttling or torpedoes or the prior night's surface gunfire. But you never see her mythologized for stubbornly staying afloat the way the
Bismarck is.