"Prince of Wales" found herself steering towards the sinking "Hood". Her commanding officer, Captain Leach, ordered an emergency avoidance turn away from "Hood"s wreckage. This violent change of course disrupted her aim and put her in a position that made it easier for the Germans to target her. She resumed her previous course, but was now under the concentrated fire of both German ships. "Prince of Wales" was struck four times by "Bismarck" and three times by "Prinz Eugen". One shell passed through her upper superstructure, killing or wounding several crewmen in the Compass Platform and Air Defence Platform. Pieces of another shell struck her radar office aft, killing the crewmen within.