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As regards the Prinz Eugen - I have heard the story but I do not subscribe to it as gospel. It seems to me that it cleaves too neatly to the agenda of "Let's bash the Hood's armour protection and sate our anglophobia by showing that a German heavy cruiser sank her with one shot."(Granted, one of the reconstructions - a lesser magazine detonating the 15" mag in a chain explosion - seems to be compatible with a hit from either German ship, but the lay explanation that "Hood was sunk by Prinz Eugen" can be used as a jumping off point for too much Brit-bashing for my liking.)I've heard it said of Prince of Wales that it was a tribue to her fire control system that she could get hits on an enemy battleship on her shakedown cruise when her crew were still in shock at having their flagship blown up in front of them.
As regards the Prinz Eugen - I have heard the story but I do not subscribe to it as gospel. It seems to me that it cleaves too neatly to the agenda of "Let's bash the Hood's armour protection and sate our anglophobia by showing that a German heavy cruiser sank her with one shot."
(Granted, one of the reconstructions - a lesser magazine detonating the 15" mag in a chain explosion - seems to be compatible with a hit from either German ship, but the lay explanation that "Hood was sunk by Prinz Eugen" can be used as a jumping off point for too much Brit-bashing for my liking.)
I've heard it said of Prince of Wales that it was a tribue to her fire control system that she could get hits on an enemy battleship on her shakedown cruise when her crew were still in shock at having their flagship blown up in front of them.
