On 24 May 1941 the battlecruiser HMS Hood and the battleship HMS Prince of Wales confronted the German battleship Bismarck and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen in the north Adantic. After just ten minutes of action the pride of the British fleet, the Hood, blew up and sank. The two German ships then concentrated their fire on the Prince of Wales, causing it some damage. The engagement was soon broken off and the British battleship withdrew, but not before Bismarck itself had been hit, causing her to lose fuel oil and take in sea water. Later that day she separated from the Prinz Eugen and set a course for the French port of St Nazaire. History will relate that she was intercepted on route by a superior British naval force and sunk.
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