EyeBrock EyeBrock:
And don't forget Bart, sloppy storage of explosives on HMS Hood contributed greatly to it being sunk by the Bismark.
Also, the lack of an armored deck posed quite a problem for the Hood. To be fair, the US didn't really think to add armor to decking until after Pearl Harbor. The Nazis were way ahead of everyone on that count and they had some outstanding research that would have been applied to to the next three
Tirpitz class had they been completed. Krupp had figured out how to make a steel foam (something the US only figured out in the past few years) and the plan was to deck their warships with this advance. Lucky for us Hitler wasn't a fan of the Kriegsmarine or those ships would've been a bugger to kill.