i am told the Bismarck was lucky in sinking the Hood - well fortune favours the bold, and the German gunners were trained for this; so their first volley found the Hood's magazine, one round landing in the captain's teamug, which had a bull's eye enamelled onto it. That was their job, to blow up enemy shit at long ranges.
Being german and hating everyting that's nazi germany (and not being very fond of what came afterwards either), I still can't help but being amazed by this thing. The Yamato was kinda ugly, though the Iowa class is pretty sexy, too. :)
War sucks, but until humanity learns to live in peace, it's a shame battleships became obsolete.
I've always liked the utilitarian look of Bismarck, Scharnhorst and Hipper class ships. I agree Yamato was an ugly beast, but Nagato and Ise looked great. At the end of the day, I think nothing can beat the lines of Hood and Vanguard.
@admiralfaffy That was Germany's problem during WW2, they used vast amounts of resources to make massive weapons that could destroy anything, example Tiger tank, instead of using less resources to make more weapons.
@admiralfaffy One of many design faults her rudders were grouped to close together her radar also was inferior to British and her stern was weak radar was so important in this engagement the British were listening to German conversations Tirpitz was recalled to strengthen her stern sorry
Dude I love this movie, but I think the german's shouldve put in 16 inch guns instead of 14's. I mean they had Krupp which was the best artillery designer in the world at that time, so they definitely could've, right?
@admiralfaffy They could've, but the result would've been the same; look at Yamato, 18in guns, couldn't resist aerial attacks. The battleship era was over.
yes,i forgot the V. vento class,you have wright,it could shoot further than yamato.i remember that it didn't have a radar,than that specific ''thing''(i forgot the name) for targeting,and it was a very precize... don't now why,but most of people classified scharnhorst as a battleship,not heavy cruiser..?
some classified the twins as battleships, some as battlecruisers. I guess the best description is undergunned battleships. Because they were fast, and they were heavily amoured (so not really a battlecruiser) but they didnt carry as big a punch as a battleship.
Roma (the v class ships ;) ) didnt get radar until 1942 or 1943, but no-where as good as what the germans had. the germans radar would have been great, if they didnt stop development in 1940......
uboats chased away the british ships rescueing the survivors???? That is def putting a spin on what happened. a lookout on one of the british ships THOUGHT he saw a periscope and so the british ships left. No german submarine captain would ever have attacked even if they were there (there is no record of any german subs being in the area). Afterall how on earth could a german uboat even a handfull be able to pickup that amount of survivors.
triple screw propulsion?why?it was heaviest and fastest war ship....faster then any battleship with 4. Triple gun turrets?why?......it had more fire power with double turrets,then any battleship with triple or quadruple turrets....if it had more guns,how powerful would then it be!?
well...today,there are no active battleships....last one is built at the end of ww2.(Vanguard).Yamato had largest guns,and a longest firing range,Bismarck had fastest firing rate,and Iowa class where fastest...it is hard to say which one would wone in battle against each other...
The Italian 15inch guns on Roma shot 46,219 yards, the 11inch guns on scharnhorst shot 46,749 yards
Yamato 18inch guns shot 45,275 yards
Though firing 11inch shells scharnhorst had the highest rate of fire, but of the proper (lol) gunned battleships yes bismarck had the highest rate of fire
you guys shouldnt even argue about this.. the bismarck was one of the wonders in the naval forces of the world... you cant compare the bismarck or the tirpitz with any other battleshit back then.. they were waay to advanced.. they could compete with some of the battleships today...
Really? Triple screw propulsion. When every British battleship from Dreadnought to Vanguard had 4. Multiple armored decks. Rendered obsolete by effective time fused delays. Heavily armored conning tower. When commanders almost always chose to lead from the unarmored bridge. Dual main gun turrets. When triple gun turrets 2 forward in superfiring pair and one aft would have been better. Mixed secondary batteries. A double bottom that did not run the full length of the ship.
@melpeacheyfan Listen stupidarse could you possiblly send me a list of the thousands of enemy warships the U.S.S. Missouri sank, ( it shouldn't take you too long ) Check out H.M.S. Warspite, She earned her salary.
another thing wrong about this video is the fact that the KMG Bismarck was not moving when the British ships opened fire, one of their Swordfish bombers(i believe) dropped a torpedo & blew out the ship's props(thus disabling it) then the ships moved in
19 May 1941 and the war had just begun. Yeah right - by then we had the African, dunkirk and denmark debacle and all the other cock ups that Churchill could dream up. Typical of an American to think the war began when they were starting to consider joining. Still it is a great song. Love it.
yes you are right of course. I feel a bit of a donkey now. As you rightly point out - that is the date that the Bismarck first went into battle ops. Doh! to quote a famous American :-)
@Bare36 H.M.S. Rodney and H.M.S. Nelson Both Had 16 inch guns!!! Bigger than the K.M.G. Bismarck! I'm fed up hearing this shite about Bismarck. She sunk a 20 year old battlecruiser ( H.M.S. Hood) Hood was not an actual battleship! Then the Bismarck ended up at the bottom of the fuckin Atlantic ocean! The Germans were then too scared to let any of their capital ships face the Royal Navy ever again!!
@Spider4642 Bigger,doens't means better....yes,they had a bigger guns,but 1 inch wider(2.55cm) was just,a little bigger...you forgot maybe,that Bismarck was capable delivering 24 '15inch shells per minut.....each gun barrel 3 shells per minut.only Bismarck and Tirpitz where capable of such result.In war,I would rather have a ship with smaller caliber guns,but with a higher number of fired projectiles in minut.my opinion is that a Bismarck class is the best quality battleships ever made...
@Bare36 Listen pal, I meant no disrespect to the K.M.G. Bismarck or any other German warship. I was just having one of my frequent drunken rants. I actually think that K.M.G. Scharnhorst and her sister ship K.M.G. Gneisnua were probably the most beautiful warships ever built. People just kept saying K.M.G. Bismarck had bigger guns.
@Spider4642 ...disrecspect any other german warship..?i am not from germany....bismarck class is a upgreaded scharnhorst class.Missouri had no good protection like B..it was more than 20 meters longer,but just little heavyer(less armored).. it was built few years after B.,but had slower guns..why?only thing that it was something faster,due to more powerful engines..tell me how many +40 000tons ships did Missouri sank?
Revisionist history and eyewitness accounts now put the Hood's sinking down to a salvo from Prinz Eugen, which started a fuel fire in the Walrus spotterplane hangar, which spread to Hood's magazines.
altair 9678,yes yamato take big punishment,but it was blown up.bismarck is still in one piece.yes bismarck was equiped with ''15 (38cm) main caliber,but i would like more to have ship which has a little smaller caliber main guns,but a 40% more fire power.24 shells to iowa's and yamato's 18..a big difference.yes it would be interesting to see them one on one.....
@Bare36 Postwar calculations by the United States Navy showed, that against the 16 inch/45 caliber guns firing a 2,242 lbs (1,018 kg) AP shell mounted on the North Carolina class battleships, the Bismarck's protection scheme provided the ship`s machinery an immunity zone between 11,000 metres and 21,000 metres, while the magazines were even better protected, being safe from hits between virtually point-blank range out to 25,000 metres.
altair 9678,yes yamato take big punishment,but it was blown up.bismarck is still in one piece.yes bismarck was equiped with ''15 (38cm) main caliber,but i would like more to have ship which has a little smaller caliber main guns,but a 50% more fire power.24 shells to iowa's and yamato's 18..a big difference.yes it would be interesting to see them one on one.....
....just how many hits it recieved before it sunk.no other ship was even a close to outstand so many hits....yes it was a nazi ship,but damn good ship,and it become a legend
@Bare36, The Yamato also took enormous punishment on her suicide run before she rolled over and died. But your right, Germans did seem to have nack for building ships that were difficult to sink back in WW-1 & 2.
this ship was probably the best quality built battleship.only the bismarck class battleships had guns ,which fired every 20sec,all other ships 30sec.germany was best in building the best cannons.so the bismarck had a best cannons....every minut it fired 24 shells,yamato and iowa 18.that is a reason why bismarck had only 8 big guns,not 9 or more.also yamato and iowa where bigger,but not so well armored like a bismarck.hi quality and excelent structure of this ship was seen,before it sunk
@Bare36, Why there were only 8 15" on such a large displacement was something I was curious about for a long time until I figured it had to be something like quicker firing and let go at that not knowing for sure. You'd also have to account the Iowa's 9 guns were 16" and Yamato's 18.1". I'd love to misuse the supercomputers we have here at Sandia National Labs to see which would be better off in 1on1 straight slugging matches.
@Altair9678...good news for you...there IS a DVD copy of the movie...I have one...and it didn't cost an arm and a leg...just search around and you'll find one...
First off, really good adaptation of the song and movie + thanks for the translation. Second reading some post some of you need to brush up on some of the details, wikepidia's there and is usually good enough. Lastly I still have the movie on VHS, but VHS seems to be joining vinyl records in the way of the dodo, soon I won't be able to see it anymore (and it won't let me copy to DVD).
in fact, iowa is bigger and stronger probably but bismarck's armor protected her incredibly. well, british couldnt make it to sink her in fact, but even the hull still wasnt destroyed but too many crew died. officers abandoned the ship so sailors had nothing to do, they blew the tank.
This song and film take me back to the early seventies at 3:30 p.m. on any Sunday. On that day and time was Family Classics on channel 9 WGN-TV Chicago. Thanks for the song and the video. Most importantly, thanks for the memory.
The hood, although the flagship of the British navy, was outdated. It did not have armor on the deck. The Bismarck fired a round that cut right through the deck and struck the magazine and all the armament in the magazine exploded which cut the ship right in half. It went down in seconds. No one had a chance.
To 23 mistakes, the Bismark was not alone she was with the battlecruiser Prinz Eugen, a battle cruiser and another beautifull ship. We should always remember the thousands of seamen who died on both sides of this famous sea battle . They both beleivied in their respective causes.
The mighty Bismarck, was brought down by a plane that also destroyed the Italian fleet at Taranto, this was a biplane that should not have been involved in WW2. So the ultimate respect should be given to the men who flew in the 'Flying Stringbag'
(The Fairey Swordfish). That is courage, to fly an antique against the most modern battleship in the world.
That's right. They sent her alone for the same reason they didn't prepare for winter in Russia. They thought they were the master race and were unbeatable
She wasn't sent out alone. She was initially with heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, but after the battle with HMS Hood, the Bismarck sustained damage and returned to port in France, splitting from Prinz Eugen which went off to raid shipping.
@23mistakes actaully she was escourted until she was under attack the brits took out her her escourt some days before besides a few ships which led the brits of course and opened the way how the bismark but the brits got smart and bismark went down to the fishes
@thelittlemind The battle with the hood also broke the bismarcks rudder. it could only sail in a straight line. So wave after Wave of torpedo planes never had to find it they knew where it would be and the brits sent everything they had.
@p2breaker actually the hood didnt. cause if it did then she would be facin g america and sail that6 way but in the end she heade back to germany because she knew that the entire British navy was after her. then a torpedo plan hit her rudder leaving her turnng starboard untill she finally gave up and sank
@23mistakes the Bismark was not alone... it was sent on a training exercise alongside the prinz eugen... they just happened to run into the hms hood...
history hms ajax, exeter, achellies, with there 8 inch guns beat up the german graf spree in the river plate and she had 11 inch guns, big the best royal navy
bismark, tosh, big ship yes but kgv hms vangard and a full working prince of wales would blow this tin can out of the water, it all comes down to the captains and the royal navy was far advanced as the germans had not fleetafter ww1
i agree a working pow would do a lot of damage, but in the bismark battle her number 1 turit was jammed and she opened fire on the prince eugene, until she trained her guns on bismark and she only got 1 salvo off b4 retreating damaged
Apricody are you fucking stupid its the bismarck its one of the famous ships in the world have you heard of the battle of the denmarck straight with hms hood hms prince of whales and the prinz uegen and the bismarck learn fucking history its got a national geoghrafic movie
dude if there was no bismark then who sunk the hms hood? sure as hell wasnt the prize eugen or the hipper! and the scharnhorst and gneisenau werent even mad yet so couldnt have been them, plus there's absolute proof there was a bismark class battleship, my proof is lying in a norwegian fjord and her name is the tirpitz! a bismark class battleship.
"Hamburg, February the 14th, 1939, today our loved Leader (Hitler) honored us with his visit to the baptize of the biggest Battleship the world has ever seen. 50000 tons big, 50cm hardened panzer-steel all around the ship and 8 Cannons with 42cm cal make this ship to an unsinkable fortress. The Battleship "Bismark" was given to his elements (water) by the granddaughter of Bismark. This new proof of german power will show the world that the german fleet can fight against any enemy."
@RabidRobert UNGLAUBLICH!! You actually translated the audio from that old archival film of the BISMARCK's launching. It's a bit odd that some of Hitler's actual statements upon the occasion never made it to this record. An example of such would be his wish that "the spirit of the Iron Chancellor" be an inspiration to all who would sail aboard this vessel. "Today the German nation welcomes its newest warship... BISMARCK!"
Ineededanaccount0 i work with unsupported young asylum seekers here in the UK stating they under 18, most are in their 20's, 30's, the United Kingdom too stupid to age assess them over 18. when they arrive, they want a flat (apartment), social security, access to all the medical services available and constantly complain how badly they are treated. these are supposed to be from war torn areas of the world
Slightly incorrect song, but great nonetheless. just wish that there would of been a mention for the Swordfish pilots who crippled the Bismarck and allowed the RN to catch up and sink her.
y559djr you are right. Dalbert342 - grow up. I have travelled the world and spent time with many races. Funny is when I am working in Austria I always find them rude, aggresive and difficult. But of course that could just be the ones I have met.
The Germans I find friendly and genuinely kind. They are ashamed of WW2, but it is time they gave themselves a break. No national history is without some great moments and some that are shameful. The Germans should be proud of what they are now.
Yeah it's almost ridiculous how much germans are ashamed, it's so bad that they can't even fly their own flag except on 1 day out of the year, and their anthem isn't really aloud to be sung anymore it's been outlawed. They basically kiss the ass of immigrants to their country and the German government supresses and discourages German patriotism. They need to take a tip from us(I'm an American) and be proud!
believe me, the German as a German sheppart dog that are kicks ass! He is now whimper in the corner! I But when he has recovered and will bite again! The Germans are traumatized!
the Hood was pretty obsolete by WWII, it was made for WWI and so couldn't stand up to Bismarck and Prinz Eugen. The Hood's inadequate armor allowed a hit by Bismarck from 11 miles (18 km) away (this is very close for battleships) to explode her magazines, thereby sinking her. If Bismarck didn't have its rudder disabled, it would have outran the British fleet to safety.
Sigh. Why do people post silly information here? 11 miles isn't "very close" for battleships of that era. It'd be closer to mid-long range for a gun engagement than anything else.
Truth was, they were going to refit her topdeck with more armor, but the need created by the war caused them to press her into service before she was ready. Their worst fears came true when that big round pierced the ship' s topdeck and hit the magazine! (Can you say "boom?")
In fact, they did. The British knew what kind of a hell those men were going through, and they wanted to get it overwith quickly. Thus, after pounding her mercilessly, the order came down to use strictly torpedoes to end it. Four hit her broadside, and that was it: down she went.
Actually,it was RFA from a carrier that torpedoed her..and damaged her,don't remember what the torpedo hit...so,she could only go in circles...and then the Royal Navy finished her
Yes, you are right about that, but what I was referring to was near the end of the final engagement, when she had been well chewed up. The order was then given to torpedo her, beccause they did not want to continue the horrible, slow death they were creating, so they could just get it overwith. The commanders imagined the Hell that the crew of Bismarck were going through, and figured that to end it that quicker than they had been was the better way to go.
r.i.p. bruno razonca bismarck survivour and friend. dont listen to these armchair admirals rabidrobert, they dont know anything. nice song, i saw the movie but was really disapointed on choice of actors.
many people post such nonsense here without knowing anything about the ship or naval technology at the time.
fact is bismarck and prinz eugen fought against superior forces and sunk hood in minutes and almost sunk hms pow.
hood was the flagship and was an able opponent. and it wasnt a lucky hit that sunk her. hitting an enemy vessel on distances about 20km away has nothing to do with luck.
Problem is, what a lot of you people fail to remember, or know, is the battleships sinking the bismark was only part of the entire story. It was an arial assault, with torpedos, that hit the bismarck in the prop, causing her to be severely crippled. When the battleships arrived, it was nothing but a simple matter of keeping away from her guns, as it could not maneuver.
dead on man the british planes were able to get so close to her in the first place, because the weapons targeting systems were so advanced they were not properly calibrated to shoot down the slow moving planes used by the british, as they were considered obsolete
Not the prop, the torpedoe damaged the rudder and, in turn, disabled the ability to steer the ship away to safety. Instead the Bismark was crippled as it ran in circles and the English vessels were able to close in to bombard it. The lucky shot in this event was the torpedoe, dropped by a bi-plane (of all things).
'lucky shot' ,luck doesn't build aircraft carriers or train crews that can get airborne in the conditions the Ark was sailing through to find and hit their target .
ja unsere BISMARCK , nützt nichts sie wurde versenkt, aber zuviele jäger sind des hasen tod ! Respect 2 all seamans they lost ther live in ww2 it was a bat time, sorry my bad english , but i think we are the Germans was always better as our enemys. But to much enemys , kill s . and now look this modern world.. no this is even not god.
The actual gunnery wasn't the point, it was about who could outrun who. The Hood was sent as she was faster than Bismarck, who was in turn faster than the most of the Home Fleet's battleships (and roughly equal to the Iowa). Once she was slowed down, the slower battleships closed in and devastated her with their superior firepower. Slowing her down was the big deal...
Also, there is not much point speculating about the battleships you mention. Yes, they would have defeated her. Bismarck was outgunned by most of the Home Fleet's battleships; although sending a battlecruiser (like a battleship but less armour) against her (and then closing in!) was suicide. Look:
Ship-to-ship is irrelevant. The battleships wrecked her; after that she was just a hull, very tough because of her armour, but completely pointless. In fact, she was scuttled by her crew. The two battleships roundly defeated her, but it's no surprise they couldn't sink what was essentially a floating hulk of metal; plus their tactics of closing in were flawed -- many shells just bounced off due to their flat trajectory.
i am told the Bismarck was lucky in sinking the Hood - well fortune favours the bold, and the German gunners were trained for this; so their first volley found the Hood's magazine, one round landing in the captain's teamug, which had a bull's eye enamelled onto it. That was their job, to blow up enemy shit at long ranges.
J0eCh0p 4 days ago
.....That was a pay back for the germans for sinking the (HOOD)
brian1963110 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
Thank you Brits for sinking the (Bismark).. I salute all of you...
brian1963110 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
Being german and hating everyting that's nazi germany (and not being very fond of what came afterwards either), I still can't help but being amazed by this thing. The Yamato was kinda ugly, though the Iowa class is pretty sexy, too. :)
War sucks, but until humanity learns to live in peace, it's a shame battleships became obsolete.
Mantriur 7 months ago
@Mantriur
I've always liked the utilitarian look of Bismarck, Scharnhorst and Hipper class ships. I agree Yamato was an ugly beast, but Nagato and Ise looked great. At the end of the day, I think nothing can beat the lines of Hood and Vanguard.
HelmutVillam 4 months ago
Also I'm depressed that out of all that armor and weaponry the Bismarck had, it was the rudder that killed it in the end.
admiralfaffy 11 months ago
@admiralfaffy
the bigger they are, the harder they fall. for want a of a nail....
mrky84 11 months ago
@admiralfaffy That was Germany's problem during WW2, they used vast amounts of resources to make massive weapons that could destroy anything, example Tiger tank, instead of using less resources to make more weapons.
OzzyFan87 10 months ago
@admiralfaffy One of many design faults her rudders were grouped to close together her radar also was inferior to British and her stern was weak radar was so important in this engagement the British were listening to German conversations Tirpitz was recalled to strengthen her stern sorry
motorguzzi100 4 months ago
Dude I love this movie, but I think the german's shouldve put in 16 inch guns instead of 14's. I mean they had Krupp which was the best artillery designer in the world at that time, so they definitely could've, right?
admiralfaffy 11 months ago
@admiralfaffy They could've, but the result would've been the same; look at Yamato, 18in guns, couldn't resist aerial attacks. The battleship era was over.
grbquattro 9 months ago
@admiralfaffy She had 15's, not 14's.
FatToad12 9 months ago
wanna see my u-boat?????
bughat1 11 months ago
yes,i forgot the V. vento class,you have wright,it could shoot further than yamato.i remember that it didn't have a radar,than that specific ''thing''(i forgot the name) for targeting,and it was a very precize... don't now why,but most of people classified scharnhorst as a battleship,not heavy cruiser..?
Bare36 11 months ago
@Bare36
some classified the twins as battleships, some as battlecruisers. I guess the best description is undergunned battleships. Because they were fast, and they were heavily amoured (so not really a battlecruiser) but they didnt carry as big a punch as a battleship.
Roma (the v class ships ;) ) didnt get radar until 1942 or 1943, but no-where as good as what the germans had. the germans radar would have been great, if they didnt stop development in 1940......
notsureyou 11 months ago
@plotkin514
uboats chased away the british ships rescueing the survivors???? That is def putting a spin on what happened. a lookout on one of the british ships THOUGHT he saw a periscope and so the british ships left. No german submarine captain would ever have attacked even if they were there (there is no record of any german subs being in the area). Afterall how on earth could a german uboat even a handfull be able to pickup that amount of survivors.
notsureyou 11 months ago
triple screw propulsion?why?it was heaviest and fastest war ship....faster then any battleship with 4. Triple gun turrets?why?......it had more fire power with double turrets,then any battleship with triple or quadruple turrets....if it had more guns,how powerful would then it be!?
there is no perfect battleship,....
Bare36 1 year ago
well...today,there are no active battleships....last one is built at the end of ww2.(Vanguard).Yamato had largest guns,and a longest firing range,Bismarck had fastest firing rate,and Iowa class where fastest...it is hard to say which one would wone in battle against each other...
Bare36 1 year ago
@Bare36 Yamato didnt shoot the furthest
The Italian 15inch guns on Roma shot 46,219 yards, the 11inch guns on scharnhorst shot 46,749 yards
Yamato 18inch guns shot 45,275 yards
Though firing 11inch shells scharnhorst had the highest rate of fire, but of the proper (lol) gunned battleships yes bismarck had the highest rate of fire
notsureyou 11 months ago
you guys shouldnt even argue about this.. the bismarck was one of the wonders in the naval forces of the world... you cant compare the bismarck or the tirpitz with any other battleshit back then.. they were waay to advanced.. they could compete with some of the battleships today...
partyanimal798 1 year ago
Really? Triple screw propulsion. When every British battleship from Dreadnought to Vanguard had 4. Multiple armored decks. Rendered obsolete by effective time fused delays. Heavily armored conning tower. When commanders almost always chose to lead from the unarmored bridge. Dual main gun turrets. When triple gun turrets 2 forward in superfiring pair and one aft would have been better. Mixed secondary batteries. A double bottom that did not run the full length of the ship.
thatkidinthegreenhat 1 year ago
@partyanimal798 lol, I think you would find that a Kirov class battlecruiser could sink them both without even getting in range of their guns.
llynellyn 11 months ago
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Bare36 1 year ago
awsome song, remember it while growing up as a kid on sunday request sessions
whinny1966 1 year ago
USS MISSOURI known as THe Mighty Mo was a Badass ship it would of drop the bismark easy. it was the USS Missouri that put the hurt on the Japs
melpeacheyfan 1 year ago
@melpeacheyfan Listen stupidarse could you possiblly send me a list of the thousands of enemy warships the U.S.S. Missouri sank, ( it shouldn't take you too long ) Check out H.M.S. Warspite, She earned her salary.
Spider4642 1 year ago
another thing wrong about this video is the fact that the KMG Bismarck was not moving when the British ships opened fire, one of their Swordfish bombers(i believe) dropped a torpedo & blew out the ship's props(thus disabling it) then the ships moved in
PoliceExplorer1405 1 year ago
Traiasca Legiunea si Capitanul!
orthodoxchristian707 1 year ago
uss iowa can kick yamatos ass,
drogonax 1 year ago
19 May 1941 and the war had just begun. Yeah right - by then we had the African, dunkirk and denmark debacle and all the other cock ups that Churchill could dream up. Typical of an American to think the war began when they were starting to consider joining. Still it is a great song. Love it.
shuffleknuckle5 1 year ago
@shuffleknuckle5 im pretty sure by that they mean when the battle with the bismarck began, I dont think us americans are that ignorant.
satanwilleatyursoul 1 year ago
@satanwilleatyursoul
yes you are right of course. I feel a bit of a donkey now. As you rightly point out - that is the date that the Bismarck first went into battle ops. Doh! to quote a famous American :-)
shuffleknuckle5 1 year ago
@shuffleknuckle5 haha no problem.
satanwilleatyursoul 1 year ago
Why is it that even in the otherwise fine move
Sink the Bismarck'' the German r Admiral Lutjens
is portrayed as the fanatical nazi while the Captain,
Lindemann is shown to be th idealist and soft cop.
In the movie Lutjens cannot wait to face off with
British capital ships whilst in books i have read, the actual Lutjens
even more than Lindemann wanted to avoid such actions and RAID/destroyt
allied commerce.. Whats up with these distortions?
neilchert 1 year ago
@yazzor,Scharnhorst was ment to be equipped with triple 38cm turrets,bismarck with her 8 guns,was already most powerful battleship
Bare36 1 year ago
@Bare36 H.M.S. Rodney and H.M.S. Nelson Both Had 16 inch guns!!! Bigger than the K.M.G. Bismarck! I'm fed up hearing this shite about Bismarck. She sunk a 20 year old battlecruiser ( H.M.S. Hood) Hood was not an actual battleship! Then the Bismarck ended up at the bottom of the fuckin Atlantic ocean! The Germans were then too scared to let any of their capital ships face the Royal Navy ever again!!
Spider4642 1 year ago
@Spider4642 Bigger,doens't means better....yes,they had a bigger guns,but 1 inch wider(2.55cm) was just,a little bigger...you forgot maybe,that Bismarck was capable delivering 24 '15inch shells per minut.....each gun barrel 3 shells per minut.only Bismarck and Tirpitz where capable of such result.In war,I would rather have a ship with smaller caliber guns,but with a higher number of fired projectiles in minut.my opinion is that a Bismarck class is the best quality battleships ever made...
Bare36 1 year ago
@Bare36 Listen pal, I meant no disrespect to the K.M.G. Bismarck or any other German warship. I was just having one of my frequent drunken rants. I actually think that K.M.G. Scharnhorst and her sister ship K.M.G. Gneisnua were probably the most beautiful warships ever built. People just kept saying K.M.G. Bismarck had bigger guns.
Spider4642 1 year ago
@Spider4642 ...disrecspect any other german warship..?i am not from germany....bismarck class is a upgreaded scharnhorst class.Missouri had no good protection like B..it was more than 20 meters longer,but just little heavyer(less armored).. it was built few years after B.,but had slower guns..why?only thing that it was something faster,due to more powerful engines..tell me how many +40 000tons ships did Missouri sank?
Bare36 1 year ago
@Spider4642
Haha did you know the RN called Schanhorst and Gneisenau "The Ugly Sisters?"
superiorelephant 1 month ago
@Spider4642
Revisionist history and eyewitness accounts now put the Hood's sinking down to a salvo from Prinz Eugen, which started a fuel fire in the Walrus spotterplane hangar, which spread to Hood's magazines.
superiorelephant 1 month ago
BRILLIANT !!!!!!!!!! Thank you for this documented background to a wonderful song,
Sydney/Australia
04bridekirk 1 year ago
altair 9678,yes yamato take big punishment,but it was blown up.bismarck is still in one piece.yes bismarck was equiped with ''15 (38cm) main caliber,but i would like more to have ship which has a little smaller caliber main guns,but a 40% more fire power.24 shells to iowa's and yamato's 18..a big difference.yes it would be interesting to see them one on one.....
Bare36 1 year ago
@Bare36 Postwar calculations by the United States Navy showed, that against the 16 inch/45 caliber guns firing a 2,242 lbs (1,018 kg) AP shell mounted on the North Carolina class battleships, the Bismarck's protection scheme provided the ship`s machinery an immunity zone between 11,000 metres and 21,000 metres, while the magazines were even better protected, being safe from hits between virtually point-blank range out to 25,000 metres.
yazzor828 1 year ago
altair 9678,yes yamato take big punishment,but it was blown up.bismarck is still in one piece.yes bismarck was equiped with ''15 (38cm) main caliber,but i would like more to have ship which has a little smaller caliber main guns,but a 50% more fire power.24 shells to iowa's and yamato's 18..a big difference.yes it would be interesting to see them one on one.....
Bare36 1 year ago
....just how many hits it recieved before it sunk.no other ship was even a close to outstand so many hits....yes it was a nazi ship,but damn good ship,and it become a legend
Bare36 1 year ago
@Bare36, The Yamato also took enormous punishment on her suicide run before she rolled over and died. But your right, Germans did seem to have nack for building ships that were difficult to sink back in WW-1 & 2.
Altair9678 1 year ago
this ship was probably the best quality built battleship.only the bismarck class battleships had guns ,which fired every 20sec,all other ships 30sec.germany was best in building the best cannons.so the bismarck had a best cannons....every minut it fired 24 shells,yamato and iowa 18.that is a reason why bismarck had only 8 big guns,not 9 or more.also yamato and iowa where bigger,but not so well armored like a bismarck.hi quality and excelent structure of this ship was seen,before it sunk
Bare36 1 year ago
@Bare36, Why there were only 8 15" on such a large displacement was something I was curious about for a long time until I figured it had to be something like quicker firing and let go at that not knowing for sure. You'd also have to account the Iowa's 9 guns were 16" and Yamato's 18.1". I'd love to misuse the supercomputers we have here at Sandia National Labs to see which would be better off in 1on1 straight slugging matches.
Altair9678 1 year ago
@Altair9678 its what they had at the time, there where going to fit her with a 15" triple mounts but the war started to soon to develop it
yazzor828 1 year ago
One of the Most Beautiful Works of Marine Engineering EVER built.
An endearing symbol of the Tragedy and Futility of War.
The "Unsinkable Ship" is a Tragic Myth of the Seas.
AblePumper 1 year ago
One of the Most Beautiful Works of Marine Engineering EVER built.
An endearing symbol of the Tragedy and Futility of War.
AblePumper 1 year ago
@Altair9678...good news for you...there IS a DVD copy of the movie...I have one...and it didn't cost an arm and a leg...just search around and you'll find one...
papamac630 1 year ago
thanks, I'll take a look at amazon.com, see what comes up.
Altair9678 1 year ago
First off, really good adaptation of the song and movie + thanks for the translation. Second reading some post some of you need to brush up on some of the details, wikepidia's there and is usually good enough. Lastly I still have the movie on VHS, but VHS seems to be joining vinyl records in the way of the dodo, soon I won't be able to see it anymore (and it won't let me copy to DVD).
Altair9678 1 year ago
Maybe the biggest but not the strongest!
USS Iowa Rules!!!
superpim100 1 year ago
@superpim100
in fact, iowa is bigger and stronger probably but bismarck's armor protected her incredibly. well, british couldnt make it to sink her in fact, but even the hull still wasnt destroyed but too many crew died. officers abandoned the ship so sailors had nothing to do, they blew the tank.
NODKRM 1 year ago
is nice
DuskbatRabbit 1 year ago
This song and film take me back to the early seventies at 3:30 p.m. on any Sunday. On that day and time was Family Classics on channel 9 WGN-TV Chicago. Thanks for the song and the video. Most importantly, thanks for the memory.
raybradhausen 1 year ago
the sad part is we don't seem to have learned a thing,we still slaughter each other in the name of God and nationalism
malleyjohn1 1 year ago
@malleyjohn1
Slaughter in the name of god is wrong but nationalism is a completely different story.
theshow2k8 1 year ago
Robert u are Wrong Yamato was the Biggest ship the World Everseen
superpim100 1 year ago
@superpim100 Robert is right, at the time the Bismark was the biggest. The Yamato came later in the war.
aardvark133 1 year ago
Nice video
ColeDanMovieStudios 1 year ago
Love King George V!
superpim100 1 year ago
The hood, although the flagship of the British navy, was outdated. It did not have armor on the deck. The Bismarck fired a round that cut right through the deck and struck the magazine and all the armament in the magazine exploded which cut the ship right in half. It went down in seconds. No one had a chance.
p2breaker 1 year ago
George W. told the nation,
"This is not an escalation
bochen88p 1 year ago
Staplegunkid, yeah I noticed that too. Good shout.
Spider4642 1 year ago
The video neglects to mention that only three of the Hood's crew of over 1,100 surivived the battle with the Bismark.
Horrible casualties on both sides.
TheStapleGunKid 1 year ago
To 23 mistakes, the Bismark was not alone she was with the battlecruiser Prinz Eugen, a battle cruiser and another beautifull ship. We should always remember the thousands of seamen who died on both sides of this famous sea battle . They both beleivied in their respective causes.
Spider4642 1 year ago
The mighty Bismarck, was brought down by a plane that also destroyed the Italian fleet at Taranto, this was a biplane that should not have been involved in WW2. So the ultimate respect should be given to the men who flew in the 'Flying Stringbag'
(The Fairey Swordfish). That is courage, to fly an antique against the most modern battleship in the world.
Spider4642 1 year ago
was the bismark on the good side or bad?
ripmichaeljackson201 1 year ago
@ripmichaeljackson201 - She was on the German side - bad, in my opinion!
bluebelly07 1 year ago
nice song
Francis103100 1 year ago
If hitler was still alive there would be less jews
bser3973 1 year ago
Cocky ass Nazis. A little island nation gave them a pretty good ass whippin'.
wrotenwasp 1 year ago
a little island nation supplied by America that is, and if I'm not mistaken the Americans, and the Russians were also beating the Nazi's down
nejiburger 1 year ago
@thebronzebat do u know where I can get some of this beer? lol
seanyw89hotmailcom 1 year ago
That's right. They sent her alone for the same reason they didn't prepare for winter in Russia. They thought they were the master race and were unbeatable
seanyw89hotmailcom 1 year ago
because the bismarck was so power full and had nothing to fear. he was send out to destroy all britisch schips.
TheAggron11 1 year ago
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23mistakes 1 year ago 4
She wasn't sent out alone. She was initially with heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, but after the battle with HMS Hood, the Bismarck sustained damage and returned to port in France, splitting from Prinz Eugen which went off to raid shipping.
07edwardluckett 1 year ago
Well Hitler was a little bit crazy...
fattoler 1 year ago
@23mistakes actaully she was escourted until she was under attack the brits took out her her escourt some days before besides a few ships which led the brits of course and opened the way how the bismark but the brits got smart and bismark went down to the fishes
thelittlemind 1 year ago
@thelittlemind The battle with the hood also broke the bismarcks rudder. it could only sail in a straight line. So wave after Wave of torpedo planes never had to find it they knew where it would be and the brits sent everything they had.
p2breaker 1 year ago
@p2breaker actually the hood didnt. cause if it did then she would be facin g america and sail that6 way but in the end she heade back to germany because she knew that the entire British navy was after her. then a torpedo plan hit her rudder leaving her turnng starboard untill she finally gave up and sank
thelittlemind 1 year ago
@23mistakes the Bismark was not alone... it was sent on a training exercise alongside the prinz eugen... they just happened to run into the hms hood...
adam7413 1 year ago
@thebronzebat
Sounds like you could probably use it as fuel. Appropriate, all things considered.
Exequian 1 year ago
Guys, lol, why is there so much talk about this crap?
Its about a really good song.
RE4man101 1 year ago
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i wish germany and japan would have won! it would have been a better world!
davidwaynemasquelier 2 years ago
history hms ajax, exeter, achellies, with there 8 inch guns beat up the german graf spree in the river plate and she had 11 inch guns, big the best royal navy
dazval1968 2 years ago
bismark, tosh, big ship yes but kgv hms vangard and a full working prince of wales would blow this tin can out of the water, it all comes down to the captains and the royal navy was far advanced as the germans had not fleetafter ww1
dazval1968 2 years ago
didnt need vanguard, a working POW could have done alot of damge. (well she did).
cocoaandcoffe 2 years ago
i agree a working pow would do a lot of damage, but in the bismark battle her number 1 turit was jammed and she opened fire on the prince eugene, until she trained her guns on bismark and she only got 1 salvo off b4 retreating damaged
dazval1968 2 years ago
yeah i know, she hadnt been finished properly when they sent her into action. not very intelligent if you ask me.
but our KGV BBs were good old things, reliable and effective in genral.
cocoaandcoffe 2 years ago
Apricody are you fucking stupid its the bismarck its one of the famous ships in the world have you heard of the battle of the denmarck straight with hms hood hms prince of whales and the prinz uegen and the bismarck learn fucking history its got a national geoghrafic movie
donquanjon 2 years ago
Apricody is an ignoramus.
wskspartapraha 2 years ago
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This entire story is obviously fake, the "Bismark" is from a fantasy novel, there was never a battleship called so.
Apricody 2 years ago
bullshit
wilddogmayn 2 years ago
dude if there was no bismark then who sunk the hms hood? sure as hell wasnt the prize eugen or the hipper! and the scharnhorst and gneisenau werent even mad yet so couldnt have been them, plus there's absolute proof there was a bismark class battleship, my proof is lying in a norwegian fjord and her name is the tirpitz! a bismark class battleship.
joboss63 2 years ago
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would be good if not that stupid song.
cyberstein12 2 years ago
I must watch that film again sometime.
TashkentFox 2 years ago
GREAT MOVIE
jada7770 2 years ago 4
"Hamburg, February the 14th, 1939, today our loved Leader (Hitler) honored us with his visit to the baptize of the biggest Battleship the world has ever seen. 50000 tons big, 50cm hardened panzer-steel all around the ship and 8 Cannons with 42cm cal make this ship to an unsinkable fortress. The Battleship "Bismark" was given to his elements (water) by the granddaughter of Bismark. This new proof of german power will show the world that the german fleet can fight against any enemy."
RabidRobert 2 years ago 8
Thanks. Any idea about the ending speech, what is being said?
frankydman 2 years ago
The ending speech is from Hitler an not easy to understand, but he is talking about the brave men that fougt on the Bismarck till it sunk.
graftrent 2 years ago 2
@graftrent NO ONE CARES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
coyote47713 11 months ago
@RabidRobert my towns name is bismarck :D:D
specialedd13 1 year ago
@RabidRobert UNGLAUBLICH!! You actually translated the audio from that old archival film of the BISMARCK's launching. It's a bit odd that some of Hitler's actual statements upon the occasion never made it to this record. An example of such would be his wish that "the spirit of the Iron Chancellor" be an inspiration to all who would sail aboard this vessel. "Today the German nation welcomes its newest warship... BISMARCK!"
NCTaikoDrumboy 1 year ago
Can someone please translate what the announcer is saying at the beginning?
frankydman 2 years ago
How many times do you think the words "verdammte Scheiße" were said on the deck while that was going on?
MarkThompson01 2 years ago
About the same amount of times that it was said when English ships Prince of Wales and Repulse were sunk.
EasyCompanyAirborne 2 years ago 2
nice post!!
BottiIS2 2 years ago
This is what they mean when they say britan rules the waves!
grant4455 2 years ago
That means the english had the sea-highness. They had more ships than the german navy.
AnimePrayer 2 years ago
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We won and thats what matters.
grant4455 2 years ago
what a pummelling!
tails12993 2 years ago
they wasted their time on a stupid battle ship they sould have made a super carrier but NOOO hitler wouldnt listen to gobbles and goring
JuliusCeasar223 2 years ago
Yes they did, after a aircraft torpedo crippled the Bismarck's Rudder with a lucky shot.
Miratesus 2 years ago
Where'd you find the opening stuff before the song starts?
bjr43 2 years ago
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Germans watch scheisser movies, poop on each other & eat it!
bigbadnewman 2 years ago
lol "scheisser movies"??????
phlexxo 2 years ago
dig all these old fashion rivalry..!
caperider16 2 years ago
great drinkin' song!
EnterTheOcho 2 years ago 3
Ineededanaccount0 i work with unsupported young asylum seekers here in the UK stating they under 18, most are in their 20's, 30's, the United Kingdom too stupid to age assess them over 18. when they arrive, they want a flat (apartment), social security, access to all the medical services available and constantly complain how badly they are treated. these are supposed to be from war torn areas of the world
FotoNathan1 2 years ago 3
2:55 = Video Fail
Clearly a screen with a guy and some stuff set in front of it to be a "ship window"
Still awesome song and vid tho.
stewartwadehines 2 years ago
Yeah, This Music was made for the Movie in 1960, so most of these are from it.
StarWarsLord123 2 years ago
wtf song......
Bismarck give the Hood a headshot :-)
Behindyou12 2 years ago 4
I don't even care about the political views posted on here I just like the music
Ineededanaccount0 2 years ago 2
Slightly incorrect song, but great nonetheless. just wish that there would of been a mention for the Swordfish pilots who crippled the Bismarck and allowed the RN to catch up and sink her.
07edwardluckett 2 years ago
Actually met someone that was in that attack..
NAllen828 2 years ago
mechanicalmartians you are a simpleton
FotoNathan1 2 years ago
fuch the Nazi's from Malta!
mouthpiec 2 years ago
the only reason we won the war is because sissors beats paper. and if you dont understand it, too bad
mechanicalmartians 2 years ago
They need to do a Warriors episode, Bismark vs the New Jersey/Missouri.
EmeraldWolf21 2 years ago
England has Bismarck not destroyed they separate themselves. This is a fact.
Behindyou12 2 years ago
Britain could easily have built a battleship to match or better the Bismark but stuck to the treating limiting ship warship tonnage of 35000
FotoNathan1 2 years ago
dont forget what the germans did to millions of Jews, I hate them and the Japanese did and i really don't think i can forgive them
tippy4674 2 years ago
You mean the gassing?
MegahyperDaniel 2 years ago
I´m from germany. in my youth i was proud about such things. and now? germany an the people there is bloody shit.
rassldassl 2 years ago
take germany back!
be proud of it again!!
im english and even im sick of the germans being made to feel guilty for the past
y559djr 2 years ago 5
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But they are guilty,and always will be...fuck the germans...
Dalbert342 2 years ago
"fuck the germans"?
people like you make me sick
y559djr 2 years ago 8
y559djr you are right. Dalbert342 - grow up. I have travelled the world and spent time with many races. Funny is when I am working in Austria I always find them rude, aggresive and difficult. But of course that could just be the ones I have met.
The Germans I find friendly and genuinely kind. They are ashamed of WW2, but it is time they gave themselves a break. No national history is without some great moments and some that are shameful. The Germans should be proud of what they are now.
shuffleknuckle5 2 years ago
My family is English. My Grandfather always said the Germans were "sporting". I guess that was his way of saying they were okay as enemies went!
Beowulfcam 2 years ago 3
Yeah it's almost ridiculous how much germans are ashamed, it's so bad that they can't even fly their own flag except on 1 day out of the year, and their anthem isn't really aloud to be sung anymore it's been outlawed. They basically kiss the ass of immigrants to their country and the German government supresses and discourages German patriotism. They need to take a tip from us(I'm an American) and be proud!
Ineededanaccount0 2 years ago 4
believe me, the German as a German sheppart dog that are kicks ass! He is now whimper in the corner! I But when he has recovered and will bite again! The Germans are traumatized!
dokabernd 2 years ago
Yeah, take a tip from the Americans and go empire-building in small countries and taking over for "the good of the people".
Hang on a sec.
Where have I heard this before?
toothyp1cks 1 year ago
@Ineededanaccount0 the germans tried to be proud and patriotic - - - we brits told taough them otherwise
Trek001 1 year ago
@Trek001 After they bisected your flagship in five minutes of course. lol
Thoralmir 1 year ago
you forget about the tirpitz identical in every way to the bismark, sister ship, people have these romantic ideas about killing machines
FotoNathan1 2 years ago
You are right. Tirpitz was as good as bismark, but Adolf Hitler was silly. He speak Bullhit about his war
311mitglied 2 years ago
The Bismark was the best battleship of the WW2, but a swordship has more luck;-)
I´m a german boy, but i´m not a nazi
The germany battelship was the best in the WW2 but the the british ship had a better Teamplay.
And Adolf Hitler couldn´t make a war, because was a GEFREITER! and he didn´t hear of his generals.
311mitglied 2 years ago 2
the Hood was pretty obsolete by WWII, it was made for WWI and so couldn't stand up to Bismarck and Prinz Eugen. The Hood's inadequate armor allowed a hit by Bismarck from 11 miles (18 km) away (this is very close for battleships) to explode her magazines, thereby sinking her. If Bismarck didn't have its rudder disabled, it would have outran the British fleet to safety.
paigasukidesu 2 years ago
Bismark was sunk in 9 days,the biggest badest,9 days,unbelievable.
CastAway421 2 years ago
Sigh. Why do people post silly information here? 11 miles isn't "very close" for battleships of that era. It'd be closer to mid-long range for a gun engagement than anything else.
naughtyfeline 2 years ago
Truth was, they were going to refit her topdeck with more armor, but the need created by the war caused them to press her into service before she was ready. Their worst fears came true when that big round pierced the ship' s topdeck and hit the magazine! (Can you say "boom?")
paladin313 2 years ago
Did the ships attacking Bismarck torpedo her any chance?
MegahyperDaniel 2 years ago
In fact, they did. The British knew what kind of a hell those men were going through, and they wanted to get it overwith quickly. Thus, after pounding her mercilessly, the order came down to use strictly torpedoes to end it. Four hit her broadside, and that was it: down she went.
paladin313 2 years ago
Actually,it was RFA from a carrier that torpedoed her..and damaged her,don't remember what the torpedo hit...so,she could only go in circles...and then the Royal Navy finished her
Dalbert342 2 years ago
Yes, you are right about that, but what I was referring to was near the end of the final engagement, when she had been well chewed up. The order was then given to torpedo her, beccause they did not want to continue the horrible, slow death they were creating, so they could just get it overwith. The commanders imagined the Hell that the crew of Bismarck were going through, and figured that to end it that quicker than they had been was the better way to go.
paladin313 2 years ago
Oh, and by the way, the Bismarck was not the biggest ship with the biggest guns. The Emperial Ship Yamato staked that claim...to this day.
wolfattack402000 2 years ago
It was the biggest, the time it was built. It was another year after that that Yamato was commissioned.
croclol 2 years ago
r.i.p. bruno razonca bismarck survivour and friend. dont listen to these armchair admirals rabidrobert, they dont know anything. nice song, i saw the movie but was really disapointed on choice of actors.
glynamus 2 years ago
many people post such nonsense here without knowing anything about the ship or naval technology at the time.
fact is bismarck and prinz eugen fought against superior forces and sunk hood in minutes and almost sunk hms pow.
hood was the flagship and was an able opponent. and it wasnt a lucky hit that sunk her. hitting an enemy vessel on distances about 20km away has nothing to do with luck.
@Raistlin:
you are right.
lokuzzz 2 years ago
Problem is, what a lot of you people fail to remember, or know, is the battleships sinking the bismark was only part of the entire story. It was an arial assault, with torpedos, that hit the bismarck in the prop, causing her to be severely crippled. When the battleships arrived, it was nothing but a simple matter of keeping away from her guns, as it could not maneuver.
Raistlin5000 2 years ago 3
dead on man the british planes were able to get so close to her in the first place, because the weapons targeting systems were so advanced they were not properly calibrated to shoot down the slow moving planes used by the british, as they were considered obsolete
darrenod2 2 years ago
Not the prop, the torpedoe damaged the rudder and, in turn, disabled the ability to steer the ship away to safety. Instead the Bismark was crippled as it ran in circles and the English vessels were able to close in to bombard it. The lucky shot in this event was the torpedoe, dropped by a bi-plane (of all things).
wolfattack402000 2 years ago
'lucky shot' ,luck doesn't build aircraft carriers or train crews that can get airborne in the conditions the Ark was sailing through to find and hit their target .
iroscoe 2 years ago
ja unsere BISMARCK , nützt nichts sie wurde versenkt, aber zuviele jäger sind des hasen tod ! Respect 2 all seamans they lost ther live in ww2 it was a bat time, sorry my bad english , but i think we are the Germans was always better as our enemys. But to much enemys , kill s . and now look this modern world.. no this is even not god.
seetangadler 2 years ago
where did you get this video?
Andaroly 2 years ago 2
I made this video from clips I researched. It was a used in a high school history class in 1992.
RabidRobert 2 years ago
Very nice video !!! ;-)
justheretosee 2 years ago
The actual gunnery wasn't the point, it was about who could outrun who. The Hood was sent as she was faster than Bismarck, who was in turn faster than the most of the Home Fleet's battleships (and roughly equal to the Iowa). Once she was slowed down, the slower battleships closed in and devastated her with their superior firepower. Slowing her down was the big deal...
laddiebuck12 2 years ago
Also, there is not much point speculating about the battleships you mention. Yes, they would have defeated her. Bismarck was outgunned by most of the Home Fleet's battleships; although sending a battlecruiser (like a battleship but less armour) against her (and then closing in!) was suicide. Look:
Bismarck: 4x2 15in guns
HMS Hood: 4x2 15in guns
HMS Prince of Wales: 2x4+2 14in guns
HMS King George V: 2x4+2 14in guns
HMS Rodney: 3x3 16in guns
USS Iowa: 3x3 16in guns
Pretty clear-cut.
laddiebuck12 2 years ago
Ship-to-ship is irrelevant. The battleships wrecked her; after that she was just a hull, very tough because of her armour, but completely pointless. In fact, she was scuttled by her crew. The two battleships roundly defeated her, but it's no surprise they couldn't sink what was essentially a floating hulk of metal; plus their tactics of closing in were flawed -- many shells just bounced off due to their flat trajectory.
laddiebuck12 2 years ago