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 Encyclopedia: German battleship Bismarck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Named after the 19th century German chancellor Otto von Bismarck, her fame came from sinking the flagship and pride of the Royal Navy, the battlecruiser HMS Hood in 1941, and for the subsequent pursuit by the Royal Navy which ended with her loss just three days later.
HMS Victory in 1884 Battleship was —; from the 15th century until the mid-20th century — the name given to the most heavily gun-armed, most heavily armored, most powerful and most effective class of warship, at any particular time.
German battleship Bismarck firing at HMS Prince of Wales (1939) in the battle of the Denmark Strait 24 May 1941, photographed from [[German cruiser Prinz Eugen]].
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 George Beurling
His engine hood was shot away, a shell splinter grazed his ribs and he figured himself for dead meat, when he got an idea.
Beurling had just landed in his brand new Spitfire, when the cockpit hood was whipped back, the groundcrew pulled him out and another pilot climbed into the cockpit.
I threw the hood away and tried to get out, but the spin was forcing me back into the seat.
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Donald Collingwood served in the Royal Navy on HMS Cubitt during 1943, protecting convoys in the Atlantic and the English Channel.
HMS Warspite fought off the entire German fleet at Jutland, survived a mutiny between the wars, and covered herself in glory during World War II.
The battleships’ strengths are vividly demonstrated by the sinking of capital ships such as HMS Hood and the carrier Glorious.
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 Timeline 1879-1882
1879 Jun 16, Gilbert and Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" debuted at Bowery Theater in NYC.
1881 Mar 29, Raymond Hood, architect, was born.
1879 Aug 30, John Bell Hood, confederate general (lost Atlanta, along with arm and leg), died at 48 of Yellow Fever in a New Orleans epidemic.
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 WWII General III
WWII, the sinking of the battlecruiser HMS Hood, by the Bismarck, took place
HMS TRENCHANT: FROM CHATHAM TO THE BANKA STRAIT,
Hood sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic, taking the lives of 1,418 men with
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 Die
1956 51 die in collision of "Andrea Doria" and "Stockholm" (Cape Cod)
1941 Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood, 1,416 die 3 survive
1914 Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbor England, 788 die
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