Battle of the Denmark Strait [SEP] point in time
Battle of the Denmark Strait
The Battle of the Denmark Strait was a naval engagement on 24 May 1941 in the Second World War, between ships of the Royal Navy and the German "Kriegsmarine". The British battleship and the battlecruiser fought the German battleship and the heavy cruiser , which were attempting to break out into the North Atlantic to attack Allied merchant shipping (Operation Rheinübung).
Less than 10 minutes after the British opened fire, a shell from "Bismarck" struck "Hood" near her aft ammunition magazines
, Ernst Lindemann (Carl Möhner), that this time, he and Germany will be remembered as the victors.
Next morning, in the Denmark Strait "Bismarck" and "Prinz Eugen" encounter and . The four warships engage in a heavy battle. During the battle a shell from "Bismarck" hits "Hood", slightly damaging her. "Bismarck‍" fires another salvo from her main battery guns and both sides watch as three shells hit the water near "Hood", but the fourth hits the vessel