On May 18, 1941, the German battleship Bismarck began its first ever combat mission. It was the most powerful ship in Europe at the time, and was said to be the "invincible" pride of Hitler's navy.

In a battle that pits the might of the 1940s Bismarck battleship against a modern-day destroyer, how would this legendary ...

The German battleship Bismarck was the the pride of the Kriegsmarine, Nazi Germany’s naval service.Construction began in 1936, and the ship was commissioned in April 1940. It and its sister ship ...

The battleship Bismarck was the German navy's crown jewel, but its sinking in May 1941 convinced Hitler that the future of naval warfare was undersea.

While German U-Boats are the most deadly component of the Third Reich's naval arsenal, it had a sizeable fleet of battleships as well. The United States even used a surrendered German battleship ...

Sleek, fast, and heavily armed, Bismarck was the newest battleship of the German Navy. She carried eight 15-inch main guns in four main turrets, two forward and two aft.

Can we imagine a scenario in which two titans of World War II, the German battleship Bismarck and the Japanese battleship Yamato, would come into conflict?Difficult, but not impossible. Had the ...

German battleship Bismarck off of Kiel, Germany, September 1940. Sobotta/ullstein bild via Getty Images As soon as the war started, the Kriegsmarine set out to attack Allied shipping lanes.

Even now — 60 years after it went to the bottom — the Nazi battleship Bismarck is still a fearsome sight. "This is a beautiful, formidable thing, ...

The humble WW2 hero who sank Nazi's Bismarck battleship from a flimsy wood biplane dies aged 97 Pilot 'Jock' Moffat shot a torpedo at the ship, which jammed its steering mechanism and left it ...