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German battleship Bismarck

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Commissioned in August 1940, Bismarck sank the battlecruiser HMS Hood in May 1941 with a shell that detonated her magazines, then was hunted across the North Atlantic by much of the Royal Navy's Home Fleet before being crippled by a torpedo bomber and sunk three days later.

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crew~2,200
displacement41,700 tonnes (standard), 50,300 full load
armament8x 38 cm guns
top speed30 knots

Battle of the Atlantic

German battleship Bismarck
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Description: Aerial reconnaissance photograph taken by Flying Officer Michael Suckling on 21 May 1941 in Norway.
Description: Aerial reconnaissance photograph taken by Flying Officer Michael Suckling on 21 May 1941 in Norway.Parsecboy at en.wikipedia · Public domain · source
German battleship Bismarck
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