Well, it was the storm... KGV and Rodney were also suffering from it...tommy303 wrote: BdU reported use of weapons was barely possible.
This is probably why the Luftwaffe couldn't intervene in force on May 27th...
Well, it was the storm... KGV and Rodney were also suffering from it...tommy303 wrote: BdU reported use of weapons was barely possible.
Precisely. It would have been very nearly mind-numbing on a U-boat in the weather conditions prevailing on the 26th and 27th.Well, it was the storm...
Maybe with great luck, if a capital ship would pass close enough to a submerged U-boat... But it would require great skill nonetheless...tommy303 wrote:Precisely. It would have been very nearly mind-numbing on a U-boat in the weather conditions prevailing on the 26th and 27th.Well, it was the storm...
Well, Captain Martin on HMS Dorsetshire was sufficiently concerned about U-boat attack that he immediately stopped picking up survivors from Bismarck when his lookouts reported a suspicous object in the water. Had U-boats with torpedoes and Luftwaffe aircraft arrived two hours earlier Tovey would have been faced (considering his fuel position) with a potentially sticky situation.....tommy303 wrote:Precisely. It would have been very nearly mind-numbing on a U-boat in the weather conditions prevailing on the 26th and 27th.Well, it was the storm...