Please Charlie,

Richard Bridge is for want of a better description a complete and utter wanker.

He does not, nor ever could appreciate the conflict that came to a head when those two ships met. He as a man has never served, he has never put anything of importance to himself on the line for anything.

The Kormoran was, in all probability was approached as the neutral Merchantman she purported to be, then at point blank range, down came the screens that hid her 11" armament and her 21" torpedo tubes came into play.

Richard Bridge knows nothing of what it would be like to face such a prospect, which is why he can make so light of such a sacrifice.

Read through the words of the "Naval Hymn" for those in peril on the sea. It would mean sweet fuck all to those such as Richard Bridge - actually means liberty to most currently enjoying it.