Scapegoat: The Death Of Prince Of Wales And Repulse - Plot & Excerpts
It was the second unit to be commissioned in 1941, King George V having completed on 1 October 1940. From the outset they were seen as being outclassed by the bigger German Bismarck and Tirpitz. Churchill complained that the fact of three KGVs being needed to offset Tirpitz was, ‘… a serious reflection upon the design of our latest ships, which through being undergunned and weakened by hangars in the middle of their citadels, are evidently judged unfit to fight their opposite number in a single ship action.’2 This was slightly unfair – only by having three ships available could two be guaranteed to be available to fight at any one time because of the requirement for refit and repair – but not by much. Tirpitz had more weight of armour, better watertight subdivision, a heavier main armament that could out-range the King George Vs by 3,000 yards, a faster rate of fire, a two-knot speed advantage and a vastly superior endurance and range. The reason, of course, was that Prince of Wales was built to conform to treaty limitations of the 1920s and 1930s, which Germany ignored.
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