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[edit] Captain of Doretshire

At the time of the hunt for the Bismarck the Doretshire was captained by Capt. Benjamin C.S. Martin. Agar did not become her captain until AFTER the action of May 1941.

After firing three torpedoes at the sinking Bismarck, Doretshire was in the midst of rescuing approximately 80 members of the Bismarck's crew when Captain Martin was alerted (apparently incorrectly) that a German U-Boat had been sighted. Martin gave orders to end the rescue effort and get underway. By Martin's own account he left "some hundreds of enemy personnel to their fate" when Doretshire steamed away from the scene.

This account is based on the memoirs of Baron Burkard Von Mullenheim-Rechberg, the senior surviving officer from the Bismarck who had been rescued by the Doretshire prior to the alleged U-Boat sighting.

Source: Battleship Bismarch: A Survivor's Story. Naval Institute Press 1980. 67.143.164.87 15:35, 1 April 2007 (UTC)