Internationales Maritimes Museum Hamburg - The battleship Bismarck sank on May the 27th 1941, 79 years ago today. The battleship "Bismarck" of the German Kriegsmarine was launched on February 24, 1939 at
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On This Day 1941, the German battleship Bismarck is sunk by the British battleships HMS King George V and HMS Rodney, supported by the heavy cruisers HMS Norfolk and HMS Dorsetshire [1000
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