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HMS Dorsetshire (The End of the Bismarck) The heavy cruiser HMS Dorsetshire is brought up to sink the blazing wreck of the Bismarck with torpedoes at around 10:30 hours on the morning of May 27th 1941
later renamed Wildfire
846 Squadron A veteran of the Suez crisis during which time she operated of Grumman Avengers and sea hawks
allowing the tides of battle to change in favour of the Knights Templar forces
the upward firing waist guns of Lt Wolfgang Wenning's Messerschmitt Me410 of II/KG51 found their mark
HMS Courageous by Randall Wilson (GS) SHN329 HMS Dorsetshire (The End ofDHM854GS. HMS Courageous by Randall Wilson. Two Stringbags (Fairey Swordfish) pass across the bow of HMS Courageous as she staggers from torpedo strikes launched from a German U Boat in the Irish Sea. On 17th September 1939 HMS Courageous was struck by two torpedoes from the German submarine U 29 about 190 nautical miles south west of Dursey Head, Ireland. HMS Courageous sank in less than 16 minutes with the loss of 519 lives, including her commander