HMS Rodney — The Battleship That Hunted and Crippled the Bismarck #HMSRodney #RoyalNavy #Battleship #WW2 #NavalHistory #Bismarck #Rodney #Warships #SeaLegends #MaritimeHistory | Navy History

HMS Rodney Shells Alderney (1944) 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 Long-range artillery on the German-occupied island of Alderney was disrupting Allied operations off the northwest corner of the Cotentin Peninsula after the landings in Normandy. Rodney was tasked to eliminate the problem and bombarded Batterie Blücher on 12 August, taking up a position on the other side of the Cap de la Hague to avoid return fire. She fired 75 sixteen-inch shells at the artillery position, believing that three of the four guns had

Launched in the late 1920s, Rodney was a strange-looking battleship: low, angular, and brutally compact, with all three of her triple 16-inch turrets packed forward. Critics mocked the design… until she opened fire. #navy #ship #military | I love Warships

During the final engagement with the German battleship Bismarck, HMS Rodney fired around 378 main 16-inch shells (approximately 40 broadsides) and 706 6-inch shells. The close-range barrage destroyed the Bismarck's bridge and crippled its heavy armament, though the ship was not sunk by gunfire alone. Rodney also fired torpedoes, marking the only instance of a battleship torpedoing another. - WarThunder #reel #viral #trend #facebook #instagood | Ships & Models by Erick Navas