Incoming friendly fire.

The trauma victims increase

History sure repeated itself.

"Do not fire at your allies!"

Welp, i heard that while reading...

I wished cool jackets like that were available in your average clothing shops.

Ah yes, Ark's swordfishes mistook Sheffield for Bismarck and launched ELEVEN torps at her. Sheffie was saved by a combination of luck (faulty magnetic exploders causing some torps to prematurely detonate in the water) and extremely skillful maneuvering on the part of her crew. Epic torpedobeats, basically.

Turned out to be a blessing in disguise too (well, not for Bismarck), since the friendly-fire incident revealed the faultiness of the exploders so they swapped back to the older contact ones instead for the attack on Bismarck. And the rest was, well, history.

Movie depiction starting here, from Sink the Bismarck!(1960).

(AzLane version here.)

To be fair for Ark Royal's air complement, they weren't aware that Sheffie was operating in the area (the admiral basically detached Sheffield from the fleet to shadow Bismarck... WITHOUT informing Ark Royal of the fact.). As far as they knew, there was only one ship in that general area, which was the Bismarck. Weather and visibility was also quite poor, and IIRC the leading swordfish had to rely on ASV radar.

Have they done an event based on the Bismarck Affair yet? Because it seems like there's still a lot of ships from it they could add (Hood, Rodney, Piorun...)

I like this line from Sheffield's Wikipedia entry:

The reaction of Sheffield's crew "has not made its way into the official records"

"Obligatory penalty has impose on you for Friendly fire!"

Darkagma said:

I wished cool jackets like that were available in your average clothing shops.

hmm, maybe if Germany had won the war lol

Itamish said:

hmm, maybe if Germany had won the war lol

Anyway, Graf looks smoking hot in it