Hood (battlecruiser)
It was a crewman that said that "God himself cannot sink this ship" to Sylvia Caldwell at Southampton.
Historians believe that no one said it--not until after the sinking anyway. An article discussing the ship as an engineering marvel said that the bulkheads made the ship "practically unsinkable" and after the ship sank the newspapers were believed to have twisted this quote into the famous line "not even God Himself could sink this ship"
The prow; the front of the ship.
To show dignity. They don't have to sink with their ship, but it shows integrity and pride. The captain is in charge of sailing the ship and keeping everybody on it safe.
The Titanic was claimed to be the ship that cannot sink. However looking back at history we can see this was a fatal mistake.
It's famous because British writer Cecil S. Forester wrote a book about it in 1959, and the British made a film about it called "Sink the Bismarck" in 1960. Otherwise, it sank itself on it's maiden voyage rather than letting the British navy take credit for sinking it. German sailors (there were hundreds of survivors) had been stating for years that THEY scuttled the Bismarck, and the Royal Navy didn't sink it. Dr. Ballard dove on the vessel in the 1980's and proved that the German's were correct! They sunk their own ship!
It was the first cruise ship to sink and use SOS.
27 May 1941
Hood (battlecruiser)
No, the Lusitania is a famous passenger ship that should been targeted by the submarine. It's not the greatest idea to sink the Lusitania.
No, the Lusitania is a famous passenger ship that should not been targeted by the submarine. It's not the greatest idea to sink the Lusitania.
The Bismarck .
To purposely sink a ship is to 'scuttle' the ship.
Bismarck was not a cargo ship, it was a 15 inch gunned battlewagon.
Country singer Johnny Horton
It took Three hits to sink it and the first shot hit the engines so the ship got Disabled, then the second shot hit the fuel reserves and ingulfed part of the ship in uncrontrolable fires, the last shot hit the middle side of the ship and caused a massive hole that was letting water in quickly it sank in a matter of hours.
Bismarch sunk herself in May 1940.