The outcome of hits were: speed drop to 28 knots, trim the nose 3 degrees, and roll on the left side of 9 degrees (offset filling ballast tanks). When about 9 am May 21, 1941 The British Admiralty received the news that the battle cruiser His Majesty's 'Hood' destroyed after five minutes of an artillery duel with the German battleship 'Bismarck'. Message was checked over and over again, but in the end, it became clear - battlecruiser "Hood" sunk. This news has made a terrible impression on the British sailors and all the English in general. A 'Bismarck' in the meantime tried to escape from the vengeance of the British sailors. 'Bismarck' goes away after a battle with British linear ships, Admiral Lyutens decided to go to Saint-Nazaire, France - the entire British fleet from Halifax in Canada to Gibraltar to Spain, leaving their ports, just received a message about this fight in Denmark Strait.
The most powerful navy in the world gathered together all the forces with one goal - to apprehend and destroy 'Bismarck'. In pursuit of the 'Bismarck' streamed: battleship 'King George', a lot of cruisers and destroyers that came out of English Harbour; battleship 'Rinaun', he went out Gibraltar; battleship 'Rodney', a battleship 'Ramilles'; battleship '', carriers 'Viktories' and 'Ark Royal' and other ships. First in the prosecution of 'Bismarck' and rushed cruisers 'Suffolk' and 'Norfolk', who were patrolling in the Danish Strait. They began to pursue the German battleship in half an hour after the German fleet was to go to Saint-Nazaire.
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