Originally Posted by
cattletruck
The saw tooth dock structure appears to have been created by subsequent bombs hitting the dock a few seconds later.
Actually, the "saw tooth dock structure" is a ferry loading/unloading dock. I doubt it was created
soley because of the bomb. See here:
https://goo.gl/maps/Af61GwnvF58ByLU8A
And here is a post-bombing recce photo, taken 25 April 1945 (attack occurred 16 April) showing the damage to the canal vicinity, and the Lützow settled in the shallow water. The visible craters all match up nicely with the strikes seen in the video linked earlier in this thread. It is clear from this photo just how devastating that bomb between the dock edge and the battleship hull must have been!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...April_1945.jpg
Originally Posted by
GeeRam
The ship would have been in front of the saw tooth dock structure that has been built since, ...
Spot on, I'd say, as this 'quick and dirty' overlay of the recce photo on a modern Google Earth shot shows!
