Battlecruiser DKM Schornhorst (actually went down fighting).
Bismarck and Graf Spee both committed suicide (sunk themselves/scuttled).
It got sunk because the bismark sunk the flag ship of the royal navy,(Hood), the british then sent every war ship available to sink bismark. At 9.00am on the 21st of may, the bismark was sunk by the british ships.
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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.
Launched in 1939, the Bismarck was one of Germany's two largest warships ever built. It was sunk in May of 1941 in the North Atlantic.
German U-Boats sunk the Lusitania because the Lusitania may have held British war munitions.
a German U-boat.
The HMAS Sydney was involved in a mutually destructive engagement with the German auxiliary cruiser Komoran on November 19, 1941.
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It was a warship not a cargoship.
The Lusitania.
The Lusitania was a British ship which was sunk by a German submarine on May 7, 1915
DKM Tirpitz, sunk in a harbor by British bombers.