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to Tommy: about the fire control rooms AND damage control rooms, which were all at least doubled and all under the armored deck together with the propulsion systems. This means that the "vitals" above the armored deck only consisted of cables leading from the brigdes (navigation) and the cables from...

FINAL CONCLUSION: The BISMARCK's internal vitals could not be directly reached through the side belt armor under any normal circumstances due to the sloped "turtle-back" armored deck design, making its design the best of all given in this article for this purpose. However, there are several drawback...

I recently asked myself which questions remained to be solved on Bismarck: a): since all 4 damage control rooms were savely placed beneath the main armor deck and turtle-back system AND the 3 fire control rooms were located near the 3 main range finders/ radar sets: these lay out is perfectly allrig...

I must always smile :D about the spelling of German words by British or US naval experts: Duetsch Werks Kiel and Riechs. Marine, Dampfungsienrichtung. No need to say they mean: "Deutsche Werke Kiel" and "Reichsmarine", Dampfungseinrichtung. I don't know why the German use of the "ie" or "ei" is so f...