Today, the HMS Rodney’s memory lives on in the 1960 motion picture Sink the Bismarck!, as well as via plastic model kits such as the Trumpeter brand 1:350 scale product.

Together with HMS Rodney the KGV was responsible for pounding the Battleship Bismarck to a blazing ruin during the battle of the Denmark Strait in 1941. My father was aboard the escort carrier HMS ...