over about 100 I'm thinking it's the Royal Oak sunk by the U47, 14 October by Leutnant Prien in Scapa Flow. 1939. Graf Spee was scuttled in Dec 1939.
spanish american war
Admiral Graf Spee
The ARA General Belgrano .
Spain, when the US battleship Maine sank in Havana harbor. It was believed that the Spanish had sunk the American battleship with a command-detonated mine, but after the war it was discovered that the Maine was sunk by an internal explosion.
One ship was sunk by the Bismark.It was the British Battle-cruiser Hood, which was sunk during a naval battle between the Bismark, the escorting cruiser Prince Eugen, the Hood, and the Battleship Prince of Wales.The Bismark was then sunk a few days later by elements of the Home Fleet, and Air Arm.
spanish american war
Admiral Graf Spee
The Bismarck was a 2nd World War Battleship not a First World War battleship. You are getting the ship confused with the man: "Otto von Bismarck" after whom the battleship was named. Bismarck was the Minister President of the Kingdom of Prussia, who then became the First Chancellor of the German Empire. To answer your question here's a map of where the Bismarck was sunk. http://www.warcovers.dk/greenland/bismarck_map.jpg
The ARA General Belgrano .
War time or peace time? In peace time, the major warships sunk in the ocean have been: 1. Battleship USS Oklahoma, sunk while under tow to California after WWII. 2. Battleship USS Arkansas, sunk by an Atomic Bomb, during testing in the Pacific in 1946. 3. Battleship USS Nevada, sunk for target practice in the Pacific. 4. Battleship USS Pennsylvania, sunk for target practice in the Pacific. 5. Battleship USS New York, sunk for target practice in the Pacific. Wartime, in the ocean: British Battleship HMS Prince of Wales was sunk by Japanese airplanes in the Pacific (South China Sea-part of the Pacific). Japanese Battleship IJN Yamato, sunk by US airplanes in the Pacific. German Battleship DKM Bismarck, sunk itself in the Atlantic.
Spain, when the US battleship Maine sank in Havana harbor. It was believed that the Spanish had sunk the American battleship with a command-detonated mine, but after the war it was discovered that the Maine was sunk by an internal explosion.
U.S.S Arizona and U.S.S Missouri
One ship was sunk by the Bismark.It was the British Battle-cruiser Hood, which was sunk during a naval battle between the Bismark, the escorting cruiser Prince Eugen, the Hood, and the Battleship Prince of Wales.The Bismark was then sunk a few days later by elements of the Home Fleet, and Air Arm.
It's highly probable that the last battleships; USS Pennsylvania, USS New York, USS Arkansas, USS Nevada, and the battleship IJN Nagato were the last battleships ever sunk. These vessels were sunk during tests (target practice) from 1946 thru 1948.The only record of a battleship being sunk in May 2009 is the WW2 battleship AP-145 (known as both the USS Gen. Harry Taylor and the USNS Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg) which was sunk off the Florida coast to provide an artificial reef on May 27, 2009.
The Japanese surprise attack upon Pearl Harbor precipitated the entry of the US into WW2 . The battleship USS Arizona(BB-39) was sunk during this attack .
The first major German warship sunk in WW2 was the "pocket battleship" Admiral Graf Spee, scuttled by her crew outside Montevideo, Uruguay on 17 December 1939.
A USN steel constructed battleship which was sunk while docked in Cuba. The sinking sparked the Spanish-American War of 1898.