Rodney then closed to point-blank range and continued to engage. Eventually and in combination with torpedo attacks, Bismarck was crippled, which was soon after scuttled by her crew. HMS Hood was ...

Rodney then closed to point-blank range and continued to engage. Eventually and in combination with torpedo attacks, Bismarck was crippled, which was soon after scuttled by her crew. HMS Hood was ...

With her steering jammed and her speed slashed by torpedo attacks, the Bismarck and her crew of 2,200 were a sitting duck for the Royal Navy. And in two hours the German battleship was a helpless ...

Royal Navy ships the Rodney, the King George V, and the Norfolk opened fire on the Bismarck, hurling at it every ounce of ordnance possible, out of revenge for sinking the HMS Hood. After a full ...

Ironically, Mr Lynas had served for a short time on HMS Hood - the pride of the Royal Navy - which was sunk by Bismarck just three days before Rodney and other British vessels exacted ruthless ...

The next morning, British battleships Rodney and King George ... On May 24, southwest of Iceland, Bismarck and Prinz Eugen tangled with the battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the aging ...

"You must sink the Bismarck." Sixteen British warships joined ... we left her burning stem to stern," said a sailor from the HMS Rodney, "and she was sinking." But maybe not.

On May 27, 1941, the British battleship HMS Rodney joined the relentless pursuit of the German battleship Bismarck, flagship of the Kriegsmarine. Alongside HMS King George V, Rodney opened fire ...

HMS Rodney, HMS Dorsetshire and HMS Norfolk caught up with the incapacitated Bismarck where it was heavily attacked for almost two hours before sinking. One of the children at the exhibition ...

HMS Rodney, HMS Dorsetshire and HMS Norfolk caught up with the incapacitated Bismarck where it was heavily attacked for almost two hours before sinking. One of the children at the exhibition ...

Bismarck on fire before we torpedoed her'. The drawing shows smoke coming from the beleaguered vessel and, in the distance, the Royal Navy ships HMS Rodney and HMS King George V can be seen.

Then the Sheffield, with Ark Royal and HMS Renown, joined Force H at Gibraltar. We were coming back from Malta and we got word to deploy to the UK with all dispatch because the Bismarck had got ...