Battleship Bismarck
Launched - 14 February, 1939 | Commissioned - 24 August, 1940
Sunk in action by the Royal Navy, 26 May, 1941
“Today, we are being endowed and entrusted with a new and awe-inspiring weapon made from steel and iron, our new ship. Today, it will be brought to life by our young crew which is empowered to blend iron and blood into a powerful symphony of iron-willed devotion to duty and conviction...”
-Captain Ernst Lindemann, at the commissioning of the Battleship Bismarck, 24 August, 1940
“The Bismarck had put up a most gallant fight against impossible odds,
worthy of the old days of the Imperial German Navy, and she went down with her colours still flying.”
-Admiral Sir John Tovey (Commander of the British Home Fleet)
