Complete operational history of the German battleship Bismarck, including the pursuit and sinking of the ship, technical data, wreck, drawings, warship models, naval books, etc.
Using the R/V Petrel's autonomous underwater vehicle, the USS Juneau was identified by a side scan sonar. The Petrel's crew then used the ships remotely operated underwater vehicle to transmit video of the wreck for verification. Sign up for the Live Science daily newsletter now Get the wo...
ww2dbaseBismarck was very heavily protected against the gunfire of other battleships. With a standard displacement of well over 41,000 tons (about 50,000 tons fully loaded), she was also quite a bit larger than her European and American contemporaries. As shown by the photographs below, origina...