The Bismarck's end

I refer to an article about the Bismarck wreckage (December 18). Soon after the Bismarck sank HMS Hood in the Denmark Straits on May 24, 1941, Winston Churchill gave a now famous order "Sink the Bismarck". The Royal Navy obliged. Sixty years later,...

I refer to an article about the Bismarck wreckage (December 18). Soon after the Bismarck sank HMS Hood in the Denmark Straits on May 24, 1941, Winston Churchill gave a now famous order "Sink the Bismarck". The Royal Navy obliged.

Sixty years later, some explorer is trying to rewrite history by telling us that the Bismarck was scuttled. Balderdash, if it were really scuttled why were there only 115 survivors out of a complement of 2,200 men?

When the Graf Spee was scuttled outside Montevideo harbour on December 12, 1939, not a single member of the crew was killed. The only victim was Captain Hans Langsdorff, who travelled to Buenos Aires and shot himself in a hotel room.

Who ever heard of scuttling a ship with its crew on board?

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