[The original incoming and
out going naval signal order to sink the German pocket battleship
Bismarck during the Battle of the Atlantic.]
The incoming signal: "Most Immediate to HMS.
Dorsetshire from SO 1st. C. S."
reads: "Torpedo Bismarck close range. -1022B. received
at: 1042
on 27 /5/41"
This is the original incoming copy
as taken down by the wireless telegrapher W/T Paul Johnson on board HMS.
Dorsetshire,
- at 1042 the morning of 27 May 1941 from Rear Admiral
Wake Walker, Senior Officer 1st. Cruiser Squadron on board the
Battlecruiser HMS. Norfolk and
received on the Dorsetshire.
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The original reply being the graphite outgoing signal: BN874
- X329 - Most Immediate
to C & C HF from HMS.Dorsetshire
reads: I
Torpedoed Bismarck both sides before she sank . She had ceased
fire but her colours were still flying. -1107
the
reader in this case was Bloxon and the time of receipt 1214.
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