The final action followed a layered Royal Navy method: aircraft disabled Bismarck, destroyers exhausted her crew, and surface ships then concentrated. Rodney and King George V fired alongside the cruisers Norfolk and Dorsetshire rather than reserving the engagement for battleships. Massing every available advantage was Royal Navy doctrine, with no obligation to preserve the appearance of a formal duel. The institutional lesson is as important as the tactical one: a navy should use the force taxpayers supplied instead of discarding numerical superiority for an improvised ideal of single combat.
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Royal Navy doctrine massed every available gun
King George V, Rodney, Norfolk, and Dorsetshire concentrated fire rather than preserving a formal duel, turning numerical superiority into the decisive weapon.