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|align="center" colspan="2"|[[Image:BismarckBB.jpg|300px]]
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!colspan="2" align="center" style="color: black; height: 30px; background: tan no-repeat scroll top left;"|''Bismarck''
|-
!align ="center" style="color: black; height: 30px; background: tan no-repeat scroll top left;"|Career
!align ="center" style="color: black; height: 30px; background: tan no-repeat scroll top left;"|[[Image:Nazi Germany Jack.png|48px|Jack of Nazi Germany]]
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| Class:
| ''Bismarck''
|-
| Laid down:
| 01 July 1936
|-
| Launched:
| 14 February 1939
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| Commissioned:
| 24 August 1940
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| Fate:
| Sunk in battle
|-
! colspan="2" align="center" style="color: black; height: 30px; background: tan;"| General characteristics
|-
| Displacement:
| 41,700 t
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| Length:
| 797 feet
|-
| Beam:
| 118 feet
|-
| Draft:
| 30.5 feet
|-
| Speed:
| 32.5 knots
|-
| Complement:
| 2,222 officers and men
|-
|}
'''Battleship ''Bismarck''''' was a German warship who had a brief but spectacular career in [[World War II]]. She was named for [[Otto Von Bismarck]], [[Germany]]'s "Iron Chancellor."
'''Battleship ''Bismarck''''' was a German warship who had a brief but spectacular career in [[World War II]]. She was named for [[Otto Von Bismarck]], [[Germany]]'s "Iron Chancellor."
==Description==
==Description==
[[Adolf Hitler]]'s reaction to ''Bismarck's'' loss produced a very cautious approach to future German surface ship operations against Britain's vital Atlantic sea lanes: they were essentially restricted to port. Her sister ship ''Tirpitz'' only made one brief, unsuccessful sortie in the Norwegian Sea in 1944; she would be sunk at her mooring a short time later. In June 1989, just over forty-eight years after she sank, ''Bismarck's'' battered hulk was located and photographed where she lies upright on a mountainside, nearly 16,000 feet below the ocean surface.
[[Adolf Hitler]]'s reaction to ''Bismarck's'' loss produced a very cautious approach to future German surface ship operations against Britain's vital Atlantic sea lanes: they were essentially restricted to port. Her sister ship ''Tirpitz'' only made one brief, unsuccessful sortie in the Norwegian Sea in 1944; she would be sunk at her mooring a short time later. In June 1989, just over forty-eight years after she sank, ''Bismarck's'' battered hulk was located and photographed where she lies upright on a mountainside, nearly 16,000 feet below the ocean surface.
==References==
*[http://www.kbismarck.com/ Official website]
[[Category:Military]][[Category:World War II]]
[[Category:Military]][[Category:World War II]]