Reply to post: PO Coleman-Smith needs to be keel hauled and given history lessons.

Big data at sea: How the Royal Navy charts the world's oceans

JJKing
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PO Coleman-Smith needs to be keel hauled and given history lessons.

He added: "You've got HMS Hood [the First World War era vessel] down there, she was sunk deliberately to block entrances."

HMS Hood was sunk "deliberately" by the Bismarck with a lucky shot that hit a design flaw that allowed Bismarck's Mr 15" high explosive shell to be introduced to Hood's Mr Cordite Magazine.

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