Tirpitz was sunk in a fiord
Scharnhorst was sunk off the Norwegian coast
and the Cruiser Blucher was destroyed in another fiord
No such vessel was sunk in 1993.
The Titanic was advertised as "unsinkable". Sank in 1912 in the North Atlantic after hitting an ice berg.The German battleship SMS Ostfrieslandwas claimed to be an unsinkable "super-battleship". It was sunk in 1921.The German Battleship Bismarckwas also claimed to be unsinkable but was sunk after a fierce sea-battle in 1941.
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.
Admiral Graf Spee
Admiral Graf Spee
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.
In 1915, the British ocean liner Lusitania was torpedoed by a German u-boat (submarine) and sunk because the central powers believed the ship was being utilized to transport contraband (war materials) to the United Kingdom.
Battleship Yamato.
The USS Maine.
Mckinley.
The ship was the Admiral Graf Spee. It was scuttled by the Germans. The incident is commonly known as the Battle of the River Plate.
The golfer sunk the putt. The man's canoe tipped over and his wallet sunk to the bottom of the creek. A battleship sunk the enemy's ship.