[Willem Fick]

The Hood had a weakness in that the shell entered through the deck and hit the magazine directly. The various magazines in the ship were linked, so that lead to a series of massive explosions, sending it to the bottom in no time at all. Lucky shot, but quite effective still!

I have always been a huge fan of naval guns, and was lucky enough to see a 14" ships gun at the Imperial War Museum in London (Iowa class has 15"?), and to say its a big mother is quite the understatement. I would love to have been able to see them in action.

It is nice to see the projectiles in that last snap, and if you take the size of the ship in consideration, its easy to see why one doesn't want to be on the receiving end!

Apparantly these rounds travel quite slow, and one often sees them in old pictures of firefights. Read an account of a D-day pilot who saw some of the ammo fro a couple of destroyers coming in over the beaches, and he describes them as being the size of cars...