143: Rude Awakenings

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

History, Society & Culture

4.9 • 40.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Some said he was cursed, others said he was blessed, but everyone agreed--he was the luckiest kraut in the navy.

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0:00.0	Hello Superkins here, and I've teamed up once again with the LEGO Group to bring you
0:04.1	series two of my podcast at Your Leisure.
0:07.6	Expect more excellent guests, sharing more unusual hobbies.
0:12.0	Tune in and catch my conversations with singer and songwriter Tom Grennan, actor, writer
0:16.5	and comedian Baba Tunde Elisha, singer, model actor and presenter Kimberley Walsh, and
0:22.5	many more.
0:24.2	Listen to the at-your-leisure podcast with me, Superkins, on Global Player.
0:38.1	May 26, 1941.
0:40.8	Oscar was napping when the torpedo slammed into the side of his ship.
0:45.1	It was a rude awakening.
0:48.0	The mighty Bismarck, the crown jewel of Hitler's Kriegs Marine, groaned and shuttered, sending
0:54.1	Oscar flying from his birth and scrambling for the relative safety of the upper decks.
0:59.4	This can't be happening, his crewman yelled.
1:01.7	They said our ship was unsinkable.
1:04.8	The evidence, suggested otherwise.
1:07.5	The torpedo had disabled Bismarck's rudder, and now the mighty warship could do nothing
1:12.7	but turn in a giant lumbering circle as half the British Royal Navy steamed in for the
1:18.6	kill.
1:19.8	The shelling was relentless, and shortly before midnight the captain radioed German command.
1:26.2	Bismarck unmaneuverable.
1:28.4	We will fight to the last shell.
1:30.9	Long live the Führer.
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