How Hitler’s mega warship was smashed by Brit torpedoes – and other Royal Navy triumphs
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dailystar.co.ukHitler’s navy – the Kriegsmarine – went to the bottom of the Atlantic, but not before leaving eight days of destruction in its mighty wake.The drama of the ship’s demise was immortalised in the classic 1960 war movie Sink The Bismarck!
starring Kenneth More and titled after Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s urgent order to the fleet.There is no doubt the vessel was a formidable foe.
Named after “Iron Chancellor” Otto von Bismarck, who had unified Germany in the 19th century, the warship was launched in 1939 in Hamburg by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.The largest vessel in the German navy, at a whopping 50,933 tons and 823ft long, the craft boasted eight powerful 15-inch main guns and had a top speed of a nippy 29 knots.Although the Royal.
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