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...hours later the Bismarck went down fighting after the briefest and wildest career of any modern battleship. With all the available sea power of Britain mobilized to intercept her before she could get back to her base, Berlin announced just after midnight Tuesday morning that for four hours the Bismarck had been "again engaged in a heavy fight with superior British naval units." Early Tuesday morning, the Bismarck radioed that she had been incapacitated, but "we will fight to the last hand grenade." And the last message before the Bismarck sank at 11 o'clock Tuesday morning said: "Ship...
...Britain's battleships that sank the Bismarck. It was the fleet air arm. And so, paradoxically, the speedy sinking of the Bismarck gave little cheer to those who wish to believe that Britain's navy is mistress of the seas. On the contrary, it was reserved for the pride of Hitler's navy to prove for the first time that even the mightiest unescorted battleship cannot long withstand an aerial attack. And in the air, Germany has all the advantage...
Aerial reconnaissance warned the British last Thursday that the Bismarck and her escort, the 10,000-ton cruiser Prinz Eugen, had left the Norwegian port of Bergen for a dash for the open sea to raid the Atlantic convoys. Powerful units were at once mobilized to intercept them. At dawn Saturday, she was engaged by the Hood and the Prince of Wales. The Hood was destroyed "with very few survivors" by a lucky hit on her powder magazine at a range of more than 13 miles. But in the battle the Bismarck was slowed down...
This Tuesday morning at daylight or shortly after daylight the Bismarck was attacked by British pursuing battleships, including the Prince of Wales. Even in her crippled condition, the British battleships apparently had trouble sinking her with shell fire, for it was not until some 7 or 8 hours later that the coup de grace was delivered. If (as was at first reported) this was given by a torpedo plane, the Bismarck was the first modern battleship sunk from...
Said Mr. Alexander: "Great as is our loss in the Hood, the Bismarck must be regarded as the most powerful battleship in the world, and her removal from the German Navy is a very definite simplification of the task of maintaining an effective mastery of the northern seas and maintenance of the northern blockade...