Pearl Harbour and other ships
Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2017 9:43 am
Gentlemen,
i watched a hypothetical film on Youtube on what WW2 ships would be revealed if the ocean could be drained, in it was sinking of the Arizona. The commentator stated that she was hit in the forward magazine by an armour piercing bomb which effectively blew off the bow. I was wondering if this really was the case as the Japanese planes did not seem to be able to carry a very large bomb and given the low altitude of the attack would a bomb go through all that armour, or was it actually one of their long Lance torpedoes that did the damage?
On another part of the film the old question of whether Bismarck was scuttled was raised, I know this has been discussed at length in other topics, but the images put together suggested that it looked like the plating was actually blown outwards suggesting an internal explosion and they stated that when Bismarck sank she was already full of water so no compression occurred as she reached the depths. However it was also said that she was literally shot full of holes like a colander so I wonder if this might be the reason for her filling up so quickly, also, could the plating busting outward be due to the tremendous impact of around 50,000 tons hitting the sea bed?
i watched a hypothetical film on Youtube on what WW2 ships would be revealed if the ocean could be drained, in it was sinking of the Arizona. The commentator stated that she was hit in the forward magazine by an armour piercing bomb which effectively blew off the bow. I was wondering if this really was the case as the Japanese planes did not seem to be able to carry a very large bomb and given the low altitude of the attack would a bomb go through all that armour, or was it actually one of their long Lance torpedoes that did the damage?
On another part of the film the old question of whether Bismarck was scuttled was raised, I know this has been discussed at length in other topics, but the images put together suggested that it looked like the plating was actually blown outwards suggesting an internal explosion and they stated that when Bismarck sank she was already full of water so no compression occurred as she reached the depths. However it was also said that she was literally shot full of holes like a colander so I wonder if this might be the reason for her filling up so quickly, also, could the plating busting outward be due to the tremendous impact of around 50,000 tons hitting the sea bed?