Jul 29 2020

Admiral Lanselotta Holladay

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Commander of the British navy, John Tovey immediately took the necessary steps. Heavy cruiser Norfolk 'and' Suffolk 'order was given: to go on patrol in the Denmark Strait. Hewlett-Packard understood the implications. When it received the photos taken Zacklin, and the ships in the photo identified as the 'ship of the line type' Bismarck 'and a heavy cruiser-type' hipper,''then the danger of the situation was immediately conscious; battlecruiser 'Hood' battleship 'King George' destroyers 'Elektra' 'Anthony', 'Echo', 'Icarus', 'antelope' and 'Ashate' (under the overall command of Admiral Lanselotta Holladay) was given an urgent order: go to sea and follow the direction of Iceland to cover the approaches to the island from the south and north . Meanwhile, since 'Bismarck' and 'Prince Eugen' was filmed masking paint, which was used for testing the Baltic Sea. Refuel from the tanker 'Vollin' committed 'Prinz Eugen', which, however, did not 'Bismarck'.

May 21, at 20:00, the ships began out of the fjords. Twenty to midnight, the squadron headed north. Icelandic battle at dawn on May 24 with a squadron of German battleship 'Bismarck' and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen 'has already reached the Danish Straits. At 05:25 hydroacoustic station on the 'Prinz Eugen' found noises screws of the two ships to port. In the beginning, the Germans believed that this noise propellers light cruisers, but at 05:37 on the horizon great ship, and after 16 minutes appeared and the second one. The ships squadron struck alarm. Ball ordered: charge gun shells, which were intended to combat bezbronnymi or malobronirovannymi cruisers.

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