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Bismarch sunk herself in May 1940.
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.
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Bismarck, by far. Bismarck was a sister ship of the Tirpitz. Graf Spee had 2 sister ships, the Deutchland & the Admiral Scheer.
27 May must be "battleship" day. The Bismarck was sunk (scuttled actually, according to Dr. Ballard's expedition) on 27 May 1941. Coincidentally, on that same day and month, history's only modern decisive battleship fleet action, which occurred on 27 May 1907, was fought; the Battle of Tsushima. 7 Russian battleships were sunk that day.
27 May 1941
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Bismarch sunk herself in May 1940.
After the time that it's guns were unable to fire, the Bismark took roughly 45 minutes to sink.
Bismarch committed suicide (scuttled herself) on 27 May 1941.
27th May 1941
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
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!
The Bismarck was one of a pair of Bismarck classbattleships (the other was the Tirpitz) it was named after Otto von Bismarck the first Chancellor of Germany. It was simply called the Bismarck.
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.
The address of the Bismarck Historical Society is: Po Box 1097, Bismarck, ND 58502-1097