Nelson and Rodney were very peculiar looking ships. They looked like part of the back end was missing, like on a Manx cat! ;-) The three huge turrets up forward were impressive, though. I remember buying the Airfix 1/600 scale kit of the Rodney way back in the 60's and building it.

The Bismark (eight 15" guns) got pounded into a wreck at the final battle by King George V (ten 14" guns) and Rodney (nine 16" guns). Bismark's return fire was accurate at the start of the battle. The German ship picked the Rodney as their main target and managed to straddle her with their third salvo, but hits to Bismark almost immediately after that rapidly reduced the efficiency of the German fire, and they ended up scoring no heavy caliber hits on either the Rodney or the King George V, while receiving literally hundreds of hits in return...many of those fired at what amounted to pointblank range, after the Bismark's main guns had all been silenced.