Or Bismarck, which was smaller than Yamato, but, according to one source, after the gun crews had been kept up and at their stations all night by repeated destroyer attacks:
Edit: corrected a typo I hadn't spotted in time ... and while I was at it, broke up the second paragraph to make that block of text easier to read.
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Quote:...all three battleships opened fire between 0847 and 0849, with the range at about 16,000 yards... [Under] the torrent of 14-inch and 16-inch shells which started to pound the Bismarck shortly after 0900 hours.... 'By 10.15 the giant battleship had been reduced to a flaming shambles.'-- Hitler's High Seas Fleet, Richard Humble, Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century, 1971
So short of fuel oil were the British battleships ... that Tovey had to break off the action at 1023 and head for home, leaving the wallowing hulk of the Bismarck to be finished off with torpedoes from the cruisers and destroyers. Even so, she had to be helped on her way by the German engineers in her still-intact engine-rooms, who had ample time to prepare and explode demolition charges....
If ever a warship died a Wagnerian death it was Bismarck, scuttled by her own crew after her upper-works were ruined and her guns all knocked out, suffering certainly eight and possibly twelve torpedo-hits (out of a total launched at her, be it noted, of seventy-one). The British crews who fought the Bismarck marvelled at the fighting spirit of her crew against such terrifying odds, and at the fearful amount of punishment which their ship endured.
Edit: corrected a typo I hadn't spotted in time ... and while I was at it, broke up the second paragraph to make that block of text easier to read.
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