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British forces sank Bismarck after a big chase
Filed Under (english, Historia) by Targenor on 07-06-2010
Tagged Under : chase, cruiser, enemy, everything, Prince
Bismarck was the worlds biggest warship 50.000 ton and fully equipt and armed whit 38 centimeter canons and had started an operation against enemy ships in the Atlantic. At first everything went as the Germans wanted, Bismarck sank the cruiser Hood and damaged the battleship Prince of Wales, at the same time Bismarck only got minor injuries. But now the allies started to hunt Bismarck, Torepedos from airplanes damaged the ships rudder so it only could go in cirkels, and then the british cruiser Dorsetshire got three hits on Bismarck that sank. The crew on Bismarck was 2065, only 115 crewmembers survived. In 1989 the wreck of Bismarck where found about 100 miles west of the French coasttown Brest, Bismarck lies 4 500 meters down and is remarkable well kept, the big nazimark on the deck is still visibile.
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