Sinking of the Bismarck

[USSVoyager100]

what name have the movie

[speakswahilidammit]

My dad served on Hood until his transfer to HMS Kylemore, just a month before Hood's sinking. He lost many good friends. Six months later, Kylemore met her fate too, at the hands of German Dorniers, & my dad was one of only 8 survivors. He was awarded the DSM for courageous conduct during & after the sinking. The medal was pinned on his chest by Lord Mountbatten.

[lucabadue]

WMG i hope you sink to the botton !

[Illuminati10101]

FUCK WMG!!!

[3friend]

WMG ARE WANKERS!

[barnfresh60]

it was hit and sunk by a young sailor with a sling shot!!!

[keirfree]

SWALE1984 for a writer, and a self proclaimed, enthusiastic ww2 student, I am surprised at your statement, Bismarck scuttled her self, have you any Idea how many shells she was hit by, or the amount of torpedoes penetrated her Hull , also who gave the order for this scuttling ?

I suggest you get a hold of the UK Channel 4 documentary, and watch and listen to those that helped sink her, and those that survived her demise and the deep sea footage of her hull and superstructure.

[bv141a]

@keirfree As hopeless as Bismarck was,surrounded,rudderless,alon­e.The fear that somehow she could be captured,and used for propoganda against the nazi 's dominated the order to scuttle.Would she have sunk on her own?Who knows,but the order to open her seacocks was given.

[keirfree]

@bv141a the order to open sea valves may have been shouted, a long with the cries and prayers to Gott in Himmel did not do much good either

[bv141a]

@keirfree German BB's are hard to sink,Sharnhorst was pounded with torpedo's and all size's of ordanence,good compartminization.Regardless,n­o ship could withstand point blank fire from a modern BB

[notsureyou]

@bv141a

they think that scharnhorst may have been hit by as many as 11 torpedos, and that is destroyer launched torpedos which have a much bigger warhead than plane launched torpedos

[bv141a]

@notsureyou German capital ships were hard to sink in WW1,that tradition carries on.Good steel,lots of internal subdivisions,good watertight integraty,strong ships.Sharnhost could of used bigger guns thou,the 15"guns she never had

[keirfree]

at Dreadnought2142 when did the Straights of Denmark move to North Africa ? Fuckwit! dont you just Hate youtube tossers

[jers59]

@keirfree you tube needs IQ test mostly for the bismarck fanatics they are histories biggest revisionist

[keirfree]

there is NO factual evidence including testimony from Bismarck survivors that she was scuttled Fact.

Bismark was in the N Atlantic,FFs who or what was gonna tow her, capsized and to where for what purpose, she was No technological Bemoth just a 1930 big ship design,

Get over it ! she was Sunk on her maiden Voyage, , brought to her knees by 1 very small frail 1930 aircraft with an even older 1920s torpedo, True brit style Come the Hour, cometh the man, his Name Lt Moffat R N ,

[cowpat44]

Why have you killed the sound, and who the hell is WMG and why can't we hear what somebody else has to say, this is'nt Russia, yet......

[SWALE1984]

I meant the Graf Spee, sorry

[Dreadnought2142]

The germans Blew the Bismarck them self at the Coast of Marocco. The British where like ALWAYS (in the war) Late

[iroscoe]

No we were right on time .

[lolbizkitz]

no.... as Iroscoe said, we were timed perfectly. it was the Americans who were late, had you done your research.

[SWALE1984]

No, you are thinking of the Fraf Spee. The German scuttled the Bismarck 375 miles northwest of Brest France.

[Scioneer]

BUTT OUT WMG!

[bv141a]

lets march to Siberia in frostbite hobbnail boots,without any snowplows.ect ect idiots

[bv141a]

Usa industry only good for razor blades and washing machines,to many jews and negros to make good soldiers.

[lovre666]

agreed

[bv141a]

The German surface fleet was doomed from the start,[and the Italians]no oil to train or fight,no naval air.

[jers59]

@bv141a moron US built the best bomber in the world B29 the best fighter P51 and P47, best combat rifle M1 Garand the best class of warships in WW2 the Essex class, the best battleships South Dakota and Iowa class, heavy cruiser, Baltimores Class, Light cruiser Clevelands, Destroyer Fletchers

[bv141a]

@jers59 Moron?you live in Jersey,what exit?USA made good weapons but didn't start WW2 with the best.P 40 vs 109,Portland CA vs Atago,Porter DD vs Tribal class.Most WW2 powers ended the war with what they started with,USA rebuilt her navy from the ground up,replacing everything that was lost and then some

[jers59]

@bv141a Exit 14 A you ever watch the sopranos do not mess with jersey

[bv141a]

@jers59 Theirs more to NJ than I 95,Bernardsville to Cape May,I used to work for some of Tony's people,other than a percular female vocal twang,I like NJ

[jers59]

@bv141a I went to high school with the icemans 2 sons Richard kulklinski

[jers59]

@bv141a I will apologize for moron remarck I was up late Take it back

[bv141a]

Lutgens,was a political hack,nazi stooge who sucked up to get job,should of finished off norfolk and suffolk,then P Wales,but no.had to challenge whole fleet,Idiot

[grayfoxx3]

I have to differ with you about Lutgens.he was not a "political hack nazi stooge"fanatic as he was portrayed in the movie. In fact he had no use for Hitler.If you have seen the film clip of Hitler inspecting the ship, all the sailors on deck give him the Nazi salute.Lutgens gives him the standard military salute.He could have left Germany at the begining of the war and went to Switzerland where he sent his family, but he stayed because he loved the navy and he loved Germany.

[grayfoxx3]

He did`nt rise to the rank of admiral by being an "idiot".Both he and the Bismarck were vicxtims of circumstances beyond his control. He was trying to make it to France for repairs but with a crippled ship that could`nt make much speed nor speed he had no choice but to fight when they caught up to them.

[bv141a]

norway is closer to denmark st than brest,after sinking hood that way was safe.Tirpitz was working up in baltic.German army getting headlines,navy wanted spotlight.Plenty of idiots to go around in german command

[PriavateBrianRyan]

No, the Germans blew the Bismarck them self

[grayfoxx3]

According to the crew members that survived, Bismarck`s main guns were out of commission,but her secondary ones were still functionable.But they were useless because the Brits were out of their range. They could have surrendered the ship but it had technology they did`nt want the Brits to know about. So they scuttled it.Evidence in the hull supports this. The majority of the seamen froze to death in the sea because the Brits were afraid to stay and risk sub attack.Only 100 Germans survived.

[bv141a]

if you can't steer a course,you can't range your guns[all of them]Bismark sitting duck,should of surrenderd and saved thousands.

[reefrunner9]

The Wolf was destroyed by Coyotes. A group of predators almost always prevails. The law of the Jungle, or in this case Sea.

Heroes all, following orders from their appointed Leaders.

ajf

[kareemtitojamar]

great analysis

[ashsue99]

its funy all my lif i thought that the grrman navy was sunk and that most of it sunk by the british navy and the raf now reading all the sites on u tube i find that germany seams to have won the war and not had any ships sunk at all!!!!!!!! is this the new eu line on ww2 i mean did i miss something here?

[ashsue99]

i cant understand where this bismarke was not sunk by the british whats up you imbrased that the old royal navy with its out dated ships sank the germany navys super ships? face facts its was sunk

[pckerriga]

best documentary footage ever seen on the topic...A++++++

[kabsville]

man this is so gay all u guys and these ships disagreements..i mean ofcourse u know in the earlier years... the Bismarck " was a formidible enemy allies knew it and ...note people it sunk the British prize ship..The HOOD" come on people lets be a little realistic..facts ..well the best of all this Hitler was stopped

[dearchap]

those brave sailors on board the bismark where finished off by several torpedos from a hms destroyer my they rest in peace

[HYGRADE7692]

The Bismarck was an awsome battleship and ahead of any ship built in that time. As everyone knows, the British were no match against the Germans and their technology,thats why they needed the total combined forces of everything they had to sink one battleship.

[ashsue99]

no match????????????????? lol ahhhhh crap we sank the bismark and the sharhorst the grafs spee dident wont to fight 3 crusers so scuttled her self, it the germans were so good whay the lose all the time? and to the people you say were no match? get real stop talking crap look at the facts you lost

[HYGRADE7692]

No crap spoken here.You betterrrr look at the facts, once again read the last sentence in my comment 3 weeks ago.

[wkm1605]

Yes, 'Bismarck' had no luck; near Brest, occupied by Rommel's 7.PzDiv ('Ghost Division')- she got demolished her rudder ...

To send out the 'Scharnhorst' was a terrible failure of Adm Dr.Raeder, of Count Spee's China squadron. Post-Capt. Hans Langsdorff - `Graf Spee' was NOT ready to sacrifice his 2.000 sailors, he sent them to Argentina, and died on his ship ...

[wkm1605]

High Adm Raeder, Dr h.c., was, as a young Lt.z.S., like Adm Canaris (Intellingence WW2) on Adm Count Spee's staff in WW1.

Kind regards from Cologe.

I confess my favorite heroes are VAdm Viscount Nelson and "Horatio Hornblower"

[Phil1796]

no we wanted to avenge the hood

[wkm1605]

NO, it was fatal that the otherwise honest Sir Winston C. turned 2x against Germany.

His ancestor, FM Marborough, was and ally of the Holy Roman Emperor's Prince Eugen, His Grace FM Wellington was saved by the Prussian Count Gneisenau, and Queen Victory loved Germany, she said.

Both glorious Navies followed orders with usual DEDICATION! FM von Manstein: Prussian make no mutiny! Count Stauffenberg: Then the Col's have to act!

-from Cologne

[Phil1796]

and u did the same for the yamato

[zepsterboy]

The British couldnt finish her off????

CAHOON14...are you some kind of moron. Well you are. King George V and Rodney destroyed the Bismarck beyond recognition, so much in fact the ceased firing and sent to the Devonshire to topredo her. You sound like some kind of german sympathiser? Hope your grandparents are pround. CRAP POST CRAP COMMENTERY. PEOPLE FOR FACTS ON THE BISMARCK WATCH THE DOGFIGHTS SERIES ON HERE. THIS IS AMATUER AND HE BORROWED FOOTAGE FROM A PC GAME LOL. FOOL.

[tonythekingfisher]

"The Bismarck was capable of sinking any ship it faced" - quote. Yes, it was, but it would actually have been very fortunate to survive a 1:1 encounter with a King George V battleship.

Why? The KGV ships had many years of experience behind them. They had excellent armour which protected ALL their vitals and guns and fire control easily capable of disabling any opponent.

The Bismarck had too many systems above the armour, hence the ease with which it was reduced to a hulk in its final battle.

[billzeryou]

Bismarck would have inflicted considerably more damage had it not been for the Fleet Air Arm. The endeavour of the brave Swordfish pilots in extremely poor weather and the fortunate disabling of her rudder by one of their torpedoes ultimately lead to her demise. She was destroyed by the RN.

[citizenshmitizen]

Gee. And I thought a Bismark was a doughnut. Whoda thunk?

[ashsue99]

i think its time to look at this the easy way the bismarck was sunk? yes. the bismarck was left with all major guns out of action and a useless hulk? yes she is in a few hundred feet of water well call me a fool but i would say that means she lost and was sunk? or am i reading this all wrong

[waldbacher1886]

the bismarck was sank by themselve wit a bomb!!!!!!!

[keirfree]

The Mission, Sink the Bismark ! that Mission, was completed, on the Bismarks maiden Voyage, every thing else is Blah Blah!

[pifinch]

The video evidence of the wreck shows Bismark did not scuttle herself, she was sunk, Hood was found to be halfway through a turn to give her a full broadside but did not have time to complete the move, but at the end of the day 2500 men died, never good or "kick ass"

[Mave242]

scuttled by herself...from the own crew. the construction of this ship are fully intact!

they destroyed the sea-water-valves.

this ship are not sunken by the RN!!!

thats not true!

[Vermiliontea]

-Of course Bismark was sunk by RN!

Don't be such an i***

Crew was ordered to scuttle the ship, true.

But that's entirely irrelevant. Even if they did that, they appear to have failed because Bismark was still floating fine, upside down, when the brits put the final torpedos into her and she sank.

But as I said that's irrelevant. RN destroyed Bismark. When you destroy a ship it seems to usually finally sink. Exactly why is irrelevant.

[Mave242]

bissy got ONE hit by a torpedo...and not more.

bismarck was damaged...got a lot of damage by the RN ships, but this ship wasnt destroyed or sunken by RN!

[nsr12345]

The RN had reduced the Bismarck to a floating wreck. She couldn't fight anymore. She couldn't escape. If the ship was scuttled it was a direct consequence of this damage. Whether the killing blow was a result of RN torpedoes or her own crew scuttling her is, ultimately, irrelevant. The ship was finished long before she sank.

[eselpopo]

THATS RIGHT MAVE ... all who say something other are idiotes

[Luminahawke]

Well Technically the bismarck suffered no water line damage. Only 2 shells made it through the armor ont he side of the ship, 1 11 inch and the other 16 inch. Torpedoes no a single one made it past the bulk head which protected the ship from any serious Torpedo damage, despite evidence of several hits from torpedoes along the length of the ship, not one broke the armor bulk behind the torpedo bulkhead. Over all the only part of the ship that was damage or destroyed was the super structure.

[ashsue99]

how you know that? you been down and looked here over for a few weeks to work it out? well seams strange if all them 16 and 14 inch shells did no damage whay did it stop fireing and sink? or was all that smoke a BBQ for the men on board and realy she went back to port for a touch up? nooooooooooo it sank get real havent you worked it out it lost it got sunk stop trying to say it won lol its at the bottom

[Luminahawke]

Last under water exploration of the bismarck showed all the torpedo hits didn't make it past the designed torpedo bulge, meaning the torpedos didn't sink it. It also proved all the shells that hit the Bismarck just destroyed it's super structure, not because the Bismarck was far better, but because the British commander was an idiot and went for point blank range shots meaning shells would skip across the water and not hit below the water line even if they were 15" shells or not.

[keirfree]

@Luminahawke You type absolute Shite, read the statements made by men of the KM that worked in the boiler rooms, read see the video footage taken of the Bismark 2000, 600 shell holes, 3 torpedo s punctured below waterline and 1 Torpedo damage to main deck

Fuckwit!!

[notsureyou]

@Luminahawke

so in the final battle what british ship was firing 11inch shells at bismarck?

[Luminahawke]

@notsureyou apologise I ment 14inch shells. lol

[ChrisisBass13]

@Luminahawke then what sank it?

[Luminahawke]

@ChrisisBass13 They sank themselves to save themselves from the torment of British guns which were hammering the upper deck and super structure of the ship setting it a flame from stem to stern.

[elswick1542]

the great modern german tactic in w1 w2 sink your own ship farmore advanced than the royal navys dated idea of sinking that of your enemy lol.

[54spiritedwill54]

i think he is just starting puberty

[lja364]

The original name of the Bismarck was Deutchland. Hitler had it changed to Bismarck because the ship' name translated to Germany. If the ship was ever sunk. The pride of the country and its name would go down. apparently he made a wise decision on this one.

[adlerhessen]

that´s stupid! There was a german Pocket battleship "Deutschland", build at the late 20ies. This ship was renamed "Lützow" in spring of 1940, to disguise the sale of not finished heavy cruiser "Lützow" to the soviets AND to prevent a ship named "Deutschland" could sunk by enemies.

[lja364]

The bismarck was not the original name of this ship.

[wotanderwilde]

Please guys, Its HIM! Bismarck is male..

[Gaara11919]

omg u always refer to ships as her

[wotanderwilde]

Does the word "irony" mean anything to you?

[wotanderwilde]

You are right. God, i got educated by a 15jear old... :(

My mistake.

[jeebateeba56]

wow 3 months along from my comment/mistake and people are still debating about what happened.....

[Mcplkelly]

I am sorry, why does it matter if she was sunk by the British of Germans. She was dead, she would have been sunk one way or another, or even maybe towed by the Brits and captured. If she was scuttled it simply quickened the inevitable. Its not like the brits were out of ammo. Hell they had a flight of swordfish flying during the battle, could of used them to make an unopposed run on the Bismark. It was dead, doesnt matter who did it, it was gonna happen.

[svaran]

she was scuttled.

[trent8002003]

The jury is still out and likely will never be in on whether Bismarck finally sank because of scuttling or torpedoing by the Royal navy. The fact if KGV and Rodney totally smashed an already wounded Bismarck. She was obviously already in a poor watertight condition before the finally foundering as all reports pointed out that she was *very low in the water* before the sinking. So it could be the torpedoes or the scuttling charge that caused her to turn over finally. But does it matter which?

[zzemo79]

the hood was blown up!!!!!!the shell from bismark hit his ammo

[SebastianBrach]

The bismarck was sunk by germans this is right look the flilm "der untergang der bismarck"

[benash04a]

for a start, hood and prinz eugen were heavy cruisers. obviously none of you have read dr ballard's book on the bismark. The idea that she was scuttled is not one that can be discredited or proved, i believe norfolk and suffolk both launched torpedoes towards the end. the british did NOT leave the area before she sank as british ships started to pick up survivors, but left due to U-boat sightings in the area, hope this clears up a few things

[stonethrower88]

benash04a - Actually HMS Hood was designated a Battle Cruiser, which meant that it was as large (41,000 tons) and as heavily armored (15" main guns)as a battleship.

[benash04a]

thanks for putting me right, :)

[GazC]

Actually HMS Hood was designated a Battle Cruiser by the RN due to her rated speed. The only British Battleship to have a greater displacement than Hood was HMS Vanguard which was launched after WW2.

[stonethrower88]

That's partially right. Hood was not as heavily armoured especially on the deck armour as battleships, and as a result could attain a higher speed.

The problem was, lighter armour and the placement of the armour made it vulnerable to incoming shells, which, as it turned out was it's undoing.

[GazC]

Specifically, Hood was vulnerable to plunging shells.

[EmperorDragosh]

the sinking of Bismarck in the simulator is really impresing,it's in James Cameron's documentary about bismarck!!!

[jeebateeba56]

1.its guns werent disabled, thts wat happened to scharnhorst, another major battleship form germany.

2. bismarck was not scuttled, she was destroyed by a nuber of 1000 pound bombs dropped by lancasters, along with many other raids

[benash04a]

you are confusing the bismark with her sistership the Tirpitz here, she was destroyed by Lancasters carrying the "Grand Slam" bomb, not the bismarck. she capsized and eventually sunk in a norwegian fijord a year or so after the bismarck was sunk

[jeebateeba56]

seeing as its all flowing back to me now i realizw you are correct. but i bet u just looked it up :p lol

[benash04a]

lol ive just read ballards books on the titanic and the bismarck like 4 times, both books include more than one eyewitness account of the happenings, from survivors. an excellent read :D i knew she had to be sunk, but she has to have been one of the most beautiful ships there has been in the last 100 years, absolutely stunning. just found that the grand slam wasnt 1000lbs, or even 1000lbs, one grand slam bomb weighed 22,000lbs! jesus, must of been a hell of an explosion hehe

[dewsman]

sorry but your wrong,she was heavily damaged and yes all the guns but one were disabled and the germans scuttled her,get some facts before you start making uneducated comments you stupid fool

[mArC9134]

the bismarck wasnt sunk by the british.

[palfcadia]

nice video except for the part where u say british ships could not finish destroying the bismarck... r u joking? king george V completely annihilated the bismarck on bombardment and and it was finally sunk by 3 torpedoes from Dorsetshire, from less than 2 miles away. Cool video, but lets not take the merit from the british navy

[andrelptube]

It´s not true, the documentary from James Cameron, showed that bismarck had a special armor for torpedoes. It couldn´t sink by torpedoes. See the documentary. All the british battleships hadn´t fuel and armor to continue firing, they had to stop to go back home to take more ...

[GazC]

After the British Battleships had finished with the Hood she was a floating hulk, totally wrecked. The point that she was still afloat is moot, she was afloat, but effectively destroyedm

[GrandMasterYodda]

er you mean The Bismarck right?

[GazC]

Oops ,yeas I meant Bismark. I must've been tired last night. Hence the use of "m" instead of "." at the end of the comment!

[AgCCannonFodder]

Denmark Straigh, was a shot engagement, HMS Hood had an inherent weekness, she had wooden decks. In only the fourth or fifth salvo from the Bismarck, HMS Hood received a shell which found one of her magazines, she blew up and took all but three of her crew with her.

[ilovemthtrains]

Great Video... But agree with primosilvano.

[handxgrenadexx]

this is a cute video. And i love..

[primosilvano]

Good footage but the Narrator spoke to fsst slurring words.

[trossk]

sounded like he was about 15 years old too

[primosilvano]

trossk> Yeah ..why do a documentary and then mumble.he talks as if he is coming down from taking speed.

[trossk]

hahaha i think he is just starting puberty, atl east his voice didnt crack lmao

[centroeuropa]

those video-game scenes are not reality-like, but you did a good work.