German battleship Bismarck
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Bismarck was the first of two Bismarck-class battleships built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine. Named after Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the ship was laid down at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg
Bismarck in 1940
Bismarck in port in Hamburg
Bismarck on trials; the rangefinders had not yet been installed
Bismarck, photographed from Prinz Eugen, in the Baltic at the outset of Operation Rheinübung
Last battle of Bismarck
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The last battle of the German battleship Bismarck took place in the Atlantic Ocean approximately 300 nautical miles west of Brest, France, on 26–27 May 1941 between the German battleship Bismarck and
German battleship Bismarck
…Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers from the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal; one scored a hit that rendered the battleship's steering gear inoperable. In her final battle the following morning, the already-crippled Bismarck was engaged by two British battleships and two heavy cruisers, and sustained incapacitating damage…
Surrounded by shell splashes, Bismarck burns on the horizon
The Swordfish torpedo bombers on the deck of HMS Victorious before the attack on Bismarck
A Swordfish being loaded with a torpedo on the deck of HMS Ark Royal
HMS Renown and HMS Ark Royal, seen from HMS Sheffield