How to Cover for Your Own Ignorance

For the record, the battleship Bismarck was running from a flotilla of enemy ships, all intent on sinking her, and was struck by a torpedo dropped from a biplane, because we used to do that sort of thing.

The torpedo damaged the steering system, fusing one of the rudders in place and leaving the Bismarck only able to steer in a giant circle, with the flotilla coming to destroy it with no means getting away. I think we can all agree, for the sailors on board, it must have been one of history’s finest examples of a “real bummer.”

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