Word: hood
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...altogether possible that U.S. naval vessels were within hearing of the Hood's last blast. The U.S. Atlantic Fleet keeps a regular (although, in those northern waters, a scattered) patrol on behalf of the British. It was even possible (though unlikely) that some patrolling U.S. ship tipped off the British to the Nazi rovers' whereabouts. Certainly, if the U.S. patrol had spotted the Bismarck and her escorts beforehand, the tip-off would have been quickly given-that is what the U.S. patrol...
...event, once the U.S. Navy had heard of the Hood's destruction, certainly one of the first men to be advised was Admiral Ernest Joseph King, Commander in Chief, Atlantic Fleet...
...three days last weekend, the brand new 35,000-ton German battleship Bismarck was mistress of the seas. Against seemingly heavy odds, she had blown to bits Britain's largest warship, the 42,100-ton Hood; fought off one of Britain's newest and mightiest, the Prince of Wales. The fight lasted only 300 seconds; took place last Saturday morning in Denmark Strait between Greenland and Iceland...
...that the Bismarck and her escort, the 10,000-ton cruiser Prinz Eugen, had left the Norwegian port of Bergen for a dash for the open sea to raid the Atlantic convoys. Powerful units were at once mobilized to intercept them. At dawn Saturday, she was engaged by the Hood and the Prince of Wales. The Hood was destroyed "with very few survivors" by a lucky hit on her powder magazine at a range of more than 13 miles. But in the battle the Bismarck was slowed down by a hit on her bow. She was still further slowed...
Said Mr. Alexander: "Great as is our loss in the Hood, the Bismarck must be regarded as the most powerful battleship in the world, and her removal from the German Navy is a very definite simplification of the task of maintaining an effective mastery of the northern seas and maintenance of the northern blockade...