Was it an inside job?

>have a boat
>it isn't even that good because of being a pre-jutland design that was hastily uparmored during construction
>it somehow becomes a national icon
>constantly sail her around trying to convince the world that you're still the strongest navy in the world
>years go by, the boat gets older and older
>she could use a pretty major refit
>nope, can't do, we need her showing the flag here and there and ferry vips
>her armor isn't capable of handling modern threats and her max speed has dropped 3 knots from when she was commissioned
>shit hits the fan, krauts start another chimpout
>no time to refit her now
>she spends first year by doing very little outside of shelling surrendered frog ships
>krauts send one of their battleships to raid shit
>sent to intercept
>know that her deck armor can't handle large caliber hits
>have another ship with you that is both armored to with stand such hits and is about as fast as hood is with her worn out machinery
>maybe her should sail first and hopefully take most of the german fire?
>nope, muh pride of the royal navy
>krauts open fire
>it goes through the deck and blow whole ship up
>spend rest of the eternity pretending that bismarck was some unholy supership that had no equals in the world instead of overengineered piece of shit whose design was downright archaic when compared to other ships launched around that era

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eternal anglo in a nutshell
Bismarck was garbage and the fact that it destroys a WW1 Battlecruiser doesn't impress me one bit