In what year of WW2 was the German battleship 'Bismarck' sunk?
Last battle of the battleship Bismarck into the water to rescue a German sailor who had lost his arms. In a 1989 National Geographic documentary on the "Bismarck", one of the survivors said, "the name Joe Brooks meant something to us; our government should've given that man a medal for humaneness." Last battle of the battleship Bismarck The last battle of the German battleship "Bismarck" took place in the Atlantic Ocean approximately west of Brest, France, on 26–27 May 1941. Although it was a decisive action between capital ships, it has no generally accepted name. On 24 May, before the final action, "Bismarck"s fuel tanks were
German battleship Bismarck he conceded that scuttling "may have hastened the inevitable, but only by a matter of minutes." Ballard later concluded that "As far as I was concerned, the British had sunk the ship regardless of who delivered the final blow." Notes Citations Online sources German battleship Bismarck Bismarck was the first of two s built for Nazi Germany's "Kriegsmarine". Named after Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the ship was laid down at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg in July 1936 and launched in February 1939. Work was completed in August 1940, when she was commissioned into the German fleet. "Bismarck"