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...Crew members of the 125-ft. Coast Guard patrol boat General Greene, home at Woods Hole, Mass, from patrol off Greenland, reported that the ship had been too close for comfort to the battle between the Hood and the Bismarck. While attacking planes roared overhead in the fog, the reverberations of the big guns shook the General Greene, and "some of the shells came mighty near our starboard side...
Reason for the Navy's touchiness was the antiquated design and consequent destruction of the British battle cruiser Hood. The U.S. Alaskas will be more than half as big as the Hood (24,000 to 25,000 tons), have about the same speed (30 knots). According to published reports and Washington naval gossip (long since picked up by German and Japanese attaches), the Alaskas will have nine 12-in. guns in their main batteries (the Hood had eight 15-in.). They will be 700 ft. long (the Hood was 860 ft. long; the South Dakota's overall length...
...Alaskas will presumably be better armored than the obsolescent Hood, need not be damned because of superficial similarities. With their range (reportedly 13,000 miles), more punch and staying power than some of the Navy's older battleships, the Alaskas should be very handy if the U.S. Navy has to back up President Roosevelt's threat to harry Nazi shipping out of the Atlantic, or do the same to Japan's trade routes in the Pacific. The catch: none of the Alaskas has even been laid down; they are future ships indeed...
Unofficial reports first had it that an Alaska cruiser, instead of an older type like the Santa Fe, was to go down in the South Dakota's vacated space. Secretary Knox said last week that the Navy was awaiting full details of the Hood and Bismarck sinkings, implied that some changes in U.S. design may result...
...Germans dropped a bomb smack down on the plane elevator shaft of the Illustrious, something more than skill was involved. Considering the fact that the average number of hits in sea battle at long range comes to little more than 2% of rounds fired, the hit on one of Hood's magazines from extreme range of nearly 13 miles was fantastically lucky. And the British had their share of solid luck when one of their torpedo planes crippled a propeller and the steering mechanism of the Bismarck...