It gets embarrassingly worse for Graf Zep. Not only was she never completed, but she struck a naval mine and sunk while being towed on her way to being scrapped. Imagine Ceausescu slipping on ice and fatally breaking his neck while being frogmarched to the wall in front of the firing squad.
It gets embarrassingly worse for Graf Zep. Not only was she never completed, but she struck a naval mine and sunk while being towed on her way to being scrapped. Imagine Ceausescu slipping on ice and fatally breaking his neck while being frogmarched to the wall in front of the firing squad.
OR you can put a spin on it and think of it as a sort of "you can't fire me because I quit" scenario.
OR you can put a spin on it and think of it as a sort of "you can't fire me because I quit" scenario.
Warspite kind of did it that way. "Oh, you think you're going to have me towed to Scotland for scrapping, do you, Mr Attlee? No no, dear boy. If you mean to scrap me, you're going to have to do it right here." Broke her tow line in a storm and ran aground on a random bit of the Cornish coast, miles from anyplace where it would have been even remotely convenient or economical to break up a ship, and so had to be simultaneously salvaged and scrapped at enormous expense. That for your cost-saving fleet reductions, Clement.
Panel 3, text 2: the structure of "自分を沈め(る)" implies that the antecedent of 自分 should be Bismarck and not Ark Royal. Panel 3, text 3: I believe 抱く in this case is "to harbor an emotion" rather than "to (meta?)physically wrap something around another" Panel 4, text 2: 実感(する) is not necessarily "to feel" but rather "to gain the understanding that something is true/real", so I tried to alter the translation to get that across more effectively. I'm sorry if this one was too nitpicky or uncalled for.
The pursuit of the Bismarck.Bismarck and Ark Royal?Ah, those two do have a little bit of a connection, yes.A connection... you say?Pursuit of the Bismarck....is the deal.That's not really a 'little bit of' a connection, now is it....The hard-to-reply-to self-flagellation came out...From Bismarck's perspective, Ark Royal is a foe that pursued Bismarck with all her strength for the purpose of sinking her by her own hand.as an uncompleted ship, it's something that I can only comprehend, but never truly empathize with, isn't it...She would be harboring complicated emotions over it, wouldn't she?
Well,Assaults by the Ark Royal's Swordfish squadrons impeded the Bismarck's navigation, and the British fleet caught up to and sunk her.May 1941
Having crushed the Hood, the idol of the British Empire, the Bismarck explosively earned the hatred of the British Navy, which put all its mobile forces into hot pursuit.
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