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It took Three hits to sink it and the first shot hit the engines so the ship got Disabled, then the second shot hit the fuel reserves and ingulfed part of the ship in uncrontrolable fires, the last shot hit the middle side of the ship and caused a massive hole that was letting water in quickly it sank in a matter of hours.
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When did the Bismarck sink?
27 May 1941
What ships did the Bismarck sink?
Hood (battlecruiser)
What famous ship did the Bismarck sink?
Hood (battlecruiser)
Who sang sink the Bismarck?
Country singer Johnny Horton
Did the Bismarck sink?
Bismarch sunk herself in May 1940.
How long did it take for the Bismarck to sink?
After the time that it's guns were unable to fire, the Bismark took roughly 45 minutes to sink.
What year did Bismarck sink?
Bismarch committed suicide (scuttled herself) on 27 May 1941.
When did British navy sink the German warship Bismarck?
27th May 1941
What was famous of Bismarck for?
It's famous because British writer Cecil S. Forester wrote a book about it in 1959, and the British made a film about it called "Sink the Bismarck" in 1960. Otherwise, it sank itself on it's maiden voyage rather than letting the British navy take credit for sinking it. German sailors (there were hundreds of survivors) had been stating for years that THEY scuttled the Bismarck, and the Royal Navy didn't sink it. Dr. Ballard dove on the vessel in the 1980's and proved that the German's were correct! They sunk their own ship!
Was the Bismarck made?
Bismarck's keel was laid in 1936. She was completed and launched in 1939. Sunk in 1941.
Who made Otto von Bismarck resign?
Kaiser Wilhelm II forced Bismarck to resign.
What actors and actresses appeared in Sink the Bismarck - 1996?
The cast of Sink the Bismarck - 1996 includes: Willie Armstrong as himself Ted Briggs as himself Winston Churchill as himself John Hillerman as Narrator Adolf Hitler as himself Ludovic Kennedy as himself Norman Polmar as himself Les Sayer as himself Josef Statz as himself Johannes Zimmerman as himself
