Sink the Bismarck! Page #3

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One is the Prinz Eugen...

and we're not sure about the other.

Do you think it's...

I suggest you proceed

on the worst possible assumption...

that it's Bismarck

and she's breaking out.

I can't think of anything worse.

We can't let that ship

get loose in the Atlantic.

I'll come to immediate notice

for steam, sir.

All right. Good-bye.

We're directed to assume

that it's Bismarck...

accompanied by Prinz Eugen...

and that they're attempting to...

break out into the convoy lanes.

Now, gentlemen, they'd have

four available passages...

wouldn't they?

Here's the Denmark Strait...

the passage south of Iceland...

the Faeroes-Shetland Passage...

and the Fair Island Channel...

between the Orkneys and the Shetlands.

Anyone care to place a bet?

What about the Iceland-Faeroes

Channel?

Not too near our bases,

room to maneuver.

Why wouldn't he take the nearest exit?

Fair Island Channel's

only a few hundred miles.

Too close to our air patrol.

All you're saying is

it could be any one of the four.

Actually, of course,

you're perfectly right.

I'm afraid somehow or other...

we've got to guard them all.

Have we any idea

where they are now, sir?

Nothing definite.

Jenkins, check with Coastal Command...

that they're carrying out a search.

Aye aye, sir.

Looks like two cruisers.

That's what the pilot said.

One's a cruiser, all right.

The other one's...

Bismarck.

Bismarck's been located in Norway.

Definitely identified.

Bismarck's in Grimstad Fjord.

They want us to send

everything we've got...

Bombers, torpedo planes, everything.

No luck. Nothing.

Visibility down to nil.

Cloud down to 200 feet, sir.

Can't get a bombing run

in weather like that.

What convoy's that, Miss Jackson?

What convoy's that, Miss Jackson?

O.G.62, sir.

Right.

Now, Miss Davis, take the Arethusa...

from O.G.62.

Put her with the Home Fleet.

Good.

Now take the Victorious...

from that convoy forming

up in the Clyde...W.S.8.B....

And put her with the Home Fleet.

Sir, Operations Home Fleet calling.

Director of operations.

No, I'm sorry.

We still have no information.

Well, the weather's closed in

over there.

The aircraft can't see a thing.

Yes, as soon... as soon as I hear, right.

Right. I will.

Now...

take the Repulse from W.S.8.B.

and put her with the Home Fleet.

Right.

Home Fleet looks better now, doesn't it?

Yes, sir, but I wouldn't give much

for the convoy.

You do recall that's a troop convoy...

don't you, sir?

Yes, I do.

They've got a long way to go...

round the cape to the Middle East.

This leaves them unprotected.

I'm quite aware of the circumstances,

Miss Davis.

This is a risk we have to take.

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