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I know this technically isn't about shipwrecks, but it is shipwreck adjacent. Gunther Lutjens was the admiral who was in command of the German battleship Bismarck during its first and only deployment into the Atlantic. In the film "Sink the Bismarck" he is shown as a stereotypical ww2 nationalist and the captain (Lindemann) is shown as a more cautious individual. This is not how he was in real life. He openly criticized the regieme on numerous occasions, and in one example when hitler visited the bismarck he insisted on giving the german navy salute instead of the nazi salute. just curious how you all feel about him as a person based on this.

Also a bit of an aside, but the german navy thought he was redeemable enough to name a ship after him in the 1960s German destroyer Lütjens - Wikipedia.

I know it could mobility kill it by knocking out the tracks, but could it actually go through the armor?

1: Congers bus crash 1972. driver tried to beat the train. 5 dead.

2: Fox River grove crash 1995. Partially due to driver error, but mainly due to poor intersection design. 7 dead

3: Tennga bus crash 2000. driver crossed without checking. 3 dead

4: Sumter near miss 2026. Driver attempted to beat the train. no dead

If you don't know, the us government welded a nuke into a 500' deep hole and then blew it up which launched a 2000lb manhole cover possibly into space. it was calculated to be moving at bare minimum 150,000 mph. this also happened before sputnik meaning that if it actually made it to space it was the first manmade object to do so.

1: Congers bus crash 1972. driver tried to beat the train. 5 dead.

2: Fox River grove crash 1995. Partially due to driver error, but mainly due to poor intersection design. 7 dead

3: Tennga bus crash 2000. driver crossed without checking. 3 dead

4: Sumter near miss 2026. Driver attempted to beat the train. no dead

There was a gas pipeline near the tracks, suddenly the operators got an error telling them that pressure was dropping (because the pipe was leaking) and their fix was to increase the flow of gas to make sure enough got to the end of the pipe while causing more to leak. two trains happened to pass the same spot at the same time a bit later and sparks cause the gas to explode. 575 people died. the Ufa train disaster.

There was a gas pipeline near the tracks, suddenly the operators got an error telling them that pressure was dropping (because the pipe was leaking) and their fix was to increase the flow of gas to make sure enough got to the end of the pipe while causing more to leak. two trains happened to pass the same spot at the same time a bit later and sparks cause the gas to explode. 575 people died. the Ufa train disaster.

unless you count the Novorossiysk even though that hit an unexploded mine from 10 years ago

Battleship: Warspite

Carrier: Enterprise

Destroyer: Piorun

Cruiser: Prinz Eugen

Submarine: Wahoo

Cargo ship: Kormoran

not sure on the specifics, but im pretty sure it is not great.

A large detachment of german destroyers was sent to take narvik harbor during the german invasion of norway, and while the destroyers were waiting to refuel to return, HMS Warspite steamed into the harbor and started opening up on the destroyers at effectively point-blank range. She sank three destroyers, and the other five scuttled themselves because there was no way out.

When her task force was attacked by an imperial japanese navy fleet including the yamato, the Johnston charged the fleet on her own to buy time for her fleetmates to escape. other escorts followed suit, but only after Johnston managed to blow the bow off a cruiser. as a result of the various charges the japanese fleet actually retreated, but Johnston was sunk by direct hits from Yamatos 18 inch guns. The japanese losses outweighed the american ones.

The captain loaded her well beyond what she should have gone with, even though it was well below her theoretical limit. at some point, her freeboard was less than two feet. the first image is normal freeboard, and the second is the freeboard as she left port. she ran into a storm and sank with all hands.