OK, will transfer my post here, deleting the one defiling the "story only" thread
BTW maybe add such a warning? Or maybe make it more visible (I missed it if there was one).
What is it about the Bismark, the worst of all Treaty/post-Treaty battleships, that makes it interesting?
British propaganda, following the princile that "if the Bismark killed Hood - the bestest ship evah! - by looking at it angrily, then it must be the uberest warship evah!"?
The cargo of the U-234 - checked it on wiki too
wow!
Titanic not sinking - lotsa butterflies, with Vancouver losing much business and population to Prince Rupert.
SOS
and CQD.
True, or movie?
Why would he say Mass in the vernacular? Sermon was in vernacular anyway.
And what does that matter? Roman Catholics (unlike other varieties of Catholics) were denied wine.
Political Correctness rises its head, or there really was a black steward?
1 - secondaries (or at least "2nd calibre Main Battery")in turrets are nothing new, were used by British and French and Italians ...
2 - since 1907 the RN and KM have been building all big gun ships with casematte'd secondaries, no difference here.
3 - the Bismark having all the little guns in turrets, even the puny 4.1" jobbies, indeed that's new. The puny jobbies being twins might be the biggest surprise of all!
Grosslinienshiff - did not know about it, thanks. I thought that Linienshiff was used by the KM - regardless if pre-dread or dread - until the Grosskampfschiff name was invented for the planned follow ups of the Bayern and Mackensen classes.
Thanks for bringing this fic here!