Sinking of HMS HoodAt 06:00, Holland ordered his force to turn once again
to port to ensure that the aft main guns on both Hood and Prince of Wales could bear on the German ships;
during the turn, a salvo from Bismarck, fired from about 14 km, was seen by men aboard
Prince of Wales to straddle Hood abreast her mainmast. It is likely that one 38 cm shell struck somewhere
between Hood's mainmast and "X" turret aft of the mast. A huge pillar of flame that shot upward 'like a giant blowtorch,'
in the vicinity of the mainmast, followed by an explosion that destroyed a large portion of the ship from amidships clear
to the rear of "Y" turret, blowing both after turrets into the sea. The ship broke in two and the stern fell away and sank.

The Battle of the Denmark Strait was a naval engagement on 24 May 1941 in the WW2
between ships of the Royal Navy and the German Kriegsmarine. The British battleship HMS Prince of Wales
and the battlecruiser HMS Hood fought the German battleship Bismarck and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen,
which were attempting to break out into the North Atlantic to attack Allied merchant shipping (Operation Rheinübung).
Fewer than 10 minutes after the British opened fire, a shell from Bismarck struck Hood near her aft ammunition magazines.
Soon afterwards, Hood exploded and sank within three minutes, with the loss of all but three of her crew. Prince of Wales
continued to exchange fire with Bismarck but suffered serious malfunctions in her main armament. The British battleship had
only just been completed in late March 1941, and used new quadruple gun turrets that were unreliable