On May 18, 1941, the German battleship Bismarck began its first ever combat mission. It was the most powerful ship in Europe ...

Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a naval captain ordered a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot who died slamming his fighter plane into the American vessel.

But she was too urgently needed to be spared for a full refit. Bismarck, in contrast, was a much more modern ship. The 1919 Versailles Treaty severely restricted Germany's ability to re-arm after ...

The Tirpitz and the Bismarck were each meant to serve as commerce ... The mere threat that the battleship might deploy from its base in Norway prompted London to order the important supply convoy ...

The Bismarck’s terrifying effectiveness led the Royal Navy to make the battleship’s destruction their main goal in the early phase of the war. Long before the rise of Adolf Hitler’s blood ...

Although it suffers from occasional poor wording, due certainly to poor translation, Bismarck: The Final Days of Germany's Greatest Battleship makes a very good read for anyone interested in naval ...

Sixty years after the epic battle between Hood and Bismarck, an expedition is going to find out exactly what happened to these two great Second World War ships. David Mearns - leading the search ...

Movie"Two of the worlds leading shipwreck detectives use stateoftheart equipment to discover how the Hood battleship was sunk ... sunk by the German battleship Bismarck off the coast of Greenland ...