Battleship BISMARCK COBI 4819 - World War II

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You know that:

• The ship was named after the Prussian minister and later German chancellor Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck-Schönhausen?
• Construction of the ship began on July 1, 1936 and the launching ceremony was witnessed by Adolf Hitler?
• People are simply unteachable when Blohm & Voss declared a ship unsinkable ?
• The work on the Bismarck cost a total of 200 million Reichsmarks, which is approximately 820 million euros today?
• Germany falsified the actual displacement, which was 50,900 tons, by only putting 35,000 tons in the official documentation so as not to violate the German-British treaty ?
• The vessel was fitted with eight 380 millimetre calibre guns that could fire a projectile weighing 750 kg at a distance of 36 kilometres ?
• Some parts of the ship were armoured with Wotan chromnickel steel up to 360 mm thick?
• The British pilot who severely damaged the Bismarck with a torpedo in the Swordfish was Jock Moffat ?
• The battleship Bismarck was sunk on 27 May 1941at 10:45 hours after a fierce battle with the Allied fleet and air force?
• The sinking of the Bismarck reinforced the British belief in Germany's defeatability ?
• In 1989, R. Ballard discovered the wreck of the Bismarck at a depth of 4800 m and photographs taken show an almost undamaged hull, so the ship probably went down after the bottom valves were opened to prevent the ship falling into Allied hands ?

Technical parameters:

• dimensions: length 241.55 m, width 36 m, draught 9.3 m
• displacement 50 900 t (full)
• armour plating with chromnickel steel sides 145-320 mm, deck 110-120 mm, conning tower up to 360 mm
• powered by 12 Wagner steam boilers supplying 3 Blohm & Voss turbines of 150 170 hp
• power transmission to 3 propellers with a diameter of 4.7 m
• fuel fuel oil
• maximum speed 54 km/h
• maximum range 17 200 km
• crew 2092 men
• armament 8x heavy guns L47 SK C/34 of 38 cm calibre + 12x guns L55 SK-C/28 of 150 mm calibre + 16x guns of 105 mm calibre + 16x guns of 37 mm calibre and 20x anti-aircraft guns of 20 mm calibre
• airborne aircraft 4x Arado Ar 196

From the letters of Otto von Bismarck 1853:

"If the British army turns up on the other side of the canal, I'll send a policeman to arrest them."

By order of Winston Churchill 1941:

 "Your mission is to sink the Bismarck. Nothing is more important at the moment. I order you to take every step to see that this task is accomplished."

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