Talk:HMS Glowworm (H92)

Battle of the April storm
No mention of "Battle of the April Storm"? This is Larry Forrester's fictionalized account of Glowworm's encounter with the Admiral Hipper. The characters are made up (mostly with different names), but the sequence of events seems to match pretty well with the description here on Wikipedia.

I was going to ask the same question! The book is mentioned in Roope's Wiki page. It was a great story of redemption for this thirteen-year-old!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Broadmead_Roope — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mofo80503 (talk • contribs) 18:38, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Concerns
I'm deeply puzzled that there are so few sources for the account of the final action; particularly so as the article is significantly at odds with other accounts to be found elsewhere. Roope's VC citation clearly states that he deliberately rammed the Hipper and crew member Duncan Blair states that the captain gave the order 'prepare to ram'. There are numerous other such accounts and at least one photograph exists showing the very serious extent of damage to the Hipper's starboard side which does suggest she was rammed. Given that fact, and supposing that the longstanding story has been somehow shown to be incorrect, surely at least some reference should be made to the differing accounts? Erwfaethlon (talk) 16:15, 14 June 2015 (UTC)