B29 · Contemporary gunnery report · modern web transcription

Prince of Wales: gunnery aspects of the Bismarck pursuit

Main and secondary gun calibres; persistent mechanical faults, civilian assistance, Y turret shell-ring jam and B turret performance.

Author
Captain John C. Leach
Date
12 June 1941 · No.3D/001B
Passage
ADM 234/509, reproduced pp.192–200: equipment, main-armament failures and working-up experience

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Selected main and secondary armament sections, failure tables and conclusions read on 18 October 2026. Original enclosure images not inspected.

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Transcription hosted by the HMS Hood Association. Minute-by-minute times, ammunition arithmetic and inferred hits are not treated as independently verified. A fault in one mounting is not failure of every gun; radar trouble in this action does not establish general radar ineffectiveness.

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