Wednesday, August 27, 2014
A Sailor Setting Son.
When this blog started we would sometimes post obituaries of interesting British warriors who served the King (and later Queen's) far flung but eventually fading 20th Century Empire and Commonwealth, under the title "Setting Sons." Capt North Dalrymple-Hamilton is a worthy addition, having seen the Bismark sink after coming under its guns (along with his father), joining his father again upon D-Day, marrying a Governor of the Raj's daughter and relearning to walk in his 50's after a helicopter accident.
I revivie it with this fellow:
and again
Hopefully one of those took. A father son team at the sinking of the Bismark is an interesting angle.
Capt North Dalrymple-Hamilton was so British he has one of those hyphen names the British upper crust had even before feminism.
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That's a good one. So British even his first name is a surname! Too bad they didn't throw in a "St. John" in there for insurance.
I knew that the final action against Bismarck was at short range, but a mile and a half?! At that range they must have depressed the main guns below the horizontal.
Interesting that they don't mention that the guns fired from a range of 1.5 miles were not what ultimately sank the Bismarck. She was torpedoes by the HMS Dorcetshire, a heavy cruiser. I believe that it was the last time that a capital ship sunk another with torpedoes.
Torpedoed, obviously. I speak typonese ...
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