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HMS Rodney was one of two Nelson-class battleships built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1920s. The ship entered service in 1928, and spent her peacetime career with the Atlantic and Home Fleets , sometimes serving as a flagship when her sister ship , Nelson , was being refitted.
Bismarck was settling by the stern due to progressive uncontrolled flooding and had taken on a 20 degree list to port. Tovey ordered Dorsetshire to close and torpedo the crippled Bismarck while King George V and Rodney disengaged. By the time these torpedo attacks took place, Bismarck was already listing so badly that the deck was partly awash
Rodney was made famous by her role in the sinking of the Bismarck in May 1941. At the climax of the battle Rodney, in conjunction with King George V, closed on Bismarck to bombard her at short range. Rodney ' s main guns were credited with an estimated 100 to 130 hits, contributing greatly to Bismarck ' s final destruction.
One of Bismarck ' s shells exploded 20 feet off Rodney ' s bow and damaged her starboard torpedo tube—the closest Bismarck came to a direct hit on her opponents. [148] At 09:10 Rodney launched six of her 24.5 in (620 mm) torpedoes from a distance of 10 km (6.2 mi) and Norfolk launched four from 15 km (9.3 mi).
HMS Rodney (1884) was an Admiral-class battleship launched in 1884 and sold in 1909. HMS Rodney (1916) was to have been an Admiral-class battlecruiser. She was ordered in April 1916, but construction was suspended in March 1917 and cancelled in October 1918. HMS Rodney (29) was a Nelson-class battleship launched in 1925 and broken up in 1948.
The final action against the Bismarck added further weight to his decision. When the two British battleships HMS Rodney and King George V located Bismarck, they had the setting sun silhouetting them while Bismarck remained in the evening gloom. Tovey observed this and, to the surprise of his staff, ordered that the final action be delayed until ...
Bismarck ' s alarm sounded for the last time at 08:00 on the morning of 27 May 1941. Norfolk sighted the Bismarck at 08:15, and the battleship HMS Rodney opened fire on Bismarck at 08:48. Bismarck returned fire at 08:49. Further involved in the final battle were the battleship HMS King George V and the cruisers Norfolk and HMS Dorsetshire ...
Owing to the threat of the German battleship Bismarck, the Home Fleet sent King George V and the newly completed Prince of Wales on 22 May to help locate Bismarck, along with the battlecruiser HMS Hood and six destroyers. [119] On 24 May, Prince of Wales and Hood made contact with Bismarck and opened fire at 26,000 yards. [120]