Azur Lane Kantai Collection USS Honolulu (CL-48) Bilibili, Azur Lane, game, video Game, fictional Character png 732x1024px 570.49KB.In 1944, Lancaster bombers hit the ship with two Tallboy bombs, which caused extensive internal damage and capsized the battleship. She was repeatedly attacked by the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force between 19, but she was not seriously damaged in these attacks. Tirpitz's career was less dramatic she operated in the Baltic Sea briefly in 1941 before being sent to Norwegian waters in 1942, where she acted as a fleet in being, threatening the convoys from Britain to the Soviet Union. Evidence reviewed by Robert Ballard and James Cameron indicates that her loss was most likely due to scuttling as originally claimed by her surviving crew-members. Disagreements over the cause of the sinking persist with chiefly British sources claiming responsibility for the sinking of the ship. Bismarck was defeated and sunk in a final engagement after a three-day chase by the Royal Navy. During the operation, she destroyed the British battlecruiser HMS Hood and damaged the new battleship Prince of Wales in the Battle of the Denmark Strait. Bismarck conducted only one operation, Operation Rheinübung, a sortie into the North Atlantic to raid supply convoys sent from North America to Great Britain. As such, their design represented strategic confusion that dominated German naval construction in the 1930s.īoth ships had short service careers. The ships were ordered in response to the French Richelieu-class battleships and they were designed with the traditional role of engaging enemy battleships in home waters in mind, though the German naval command envisioned employing the ships as long-range commerce raiders against British shipping in the Atlantic Ocean. Bismarck was laid down in July 1936 and completed in September 1940, while her sister Tirpitz's keel was laid in October 1936 and work finished in February 1941.

The ships were the largest and most powerful warships built for the Kriegsmarine displacing more than 41,000 metric tons (40,000 long tons) normally, they were armed with a battery of eight 38 cm (15 in) guns and were capable of a top speed of 30 knots (56 km/h 35 mph). The Bismarck class was a pair of fast battleships built for Germany's Kriegsmarine shortly before the outbreak of World War II.

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