The film opens with the chilling news that the Bismarck has escaped the British naval blockade and is loose in the North Atlantic. After it sinks the Hood, considered the greatest battleship in ...

Key Point: The sinking of the Bismarck was an excellent example of combined arms at sea working together to sink a stronger opponent. On May 23, 1941, the Battleship Bismarck was on a roll. The ...

"The Bismarck was probably the most powerful warship in commission at the time; the Hood was over 20 years old.

Now, 60 years later, PBS has partnered with England's Channel 4 in an extraordinarily ambitious expedition to find Great Britain's HMS Hood and Germany's Bismarck for two new television specials.

More and Gilbert previously worked together on Reach For the Sky (1956). Sink the Bismarck! will be televised at noon Saturday on WOFL-Channel 35. Originally Published: September 27, 1987 at 4:00 ...

The Hood was destroyed “with very few survivors” by a lucky hit on her powder magazine at a range of more than 13 miles. But in the battle the Bismarck was slowed down by a hit on her bow.

On May 27, 1941, the British Royal Navy sank the German battleship Bismarck off France with a loss of some 2,000 lives, three days after the Bismarck sank the HMS Hood with the loss of more than ...

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Here’s What You Need to Remember: The sinking of the Bismarck was an excellent example of combined arms at sea working together to sink a stronger opponent. On May 23, 1941, the Battleship ...