Well, to be honest, Bismarck is a bad example. The mechanical computers the AA guns had, that automatically compensated for lead, simply overestimated the Swordfish speed, making them constantly shoot in front of them (oddly enough, the dsigners didn't account for biplanes and their lower airspeeds). Not sure what the Japanese' problem was.
It is, however well documented that U-boats made very poor gunnery platforms; they were small, rocked quite a bit, and their accuracy suffered for it.
To use the skeet example... imagine going skeet shooting. Now, add me (I weigh ~200 lbs) holding your shoulders, and moving you back and forth. Gets quite a bit tougher.
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