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It seems a new Bismarck Anatomy of the Ship edition will be published later this year, by Polish 3D artist Stefan Draminski.

https://www.amazon.com/Battleship-Bisma ... 472828887/

This is great news!
I heard about this book a couple of years ago, and I'm glad it is finally being published.
I really look forward to this volume!

Can the German Navy Be Saved?

https://www.realcleardefense.com/articl ... 13075.html

You’re welcome.
I have been away from the website and forum for a long time, but things might change in the near future.

0217 hours on 27 May 1941. To Commander in Chief of the Navy [Grossadmiral Erich Raeder]: "Recommend bestowal of the Knight's Cross on Korvettenkapitän Schneider for sinking Hood." Chief of Fleet [Admiral Günther Lütjens] http://www.kbismarck.com/tel001.jpg ********************************...

What do you think about Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary?
... and, what will be the impact of Brexit on the British colony of Gibraltar?

Found off Sardinian Coast: WWII submarine with 71 bodies inside

https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/env ... vanishing/

Also from the same KTB, it is written that at 2000 hours on 16 March, Gneisenau radar device located a battleship of the Nelson Class at 23,800 meters. This was just after sinking the Danish "Chilean Reefer" (1,739 GRT). The battleship was actually the Rodney and Lütjens decided to run away.

Confirmed.

http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNGER_59-48_skc36.htm

The caliber was 15cm (5.9 inches).
I can not check this right now, but I think these guns were to be the same as those used on the Narvik Class destroyers.

Maybe some of you find this interesting. On Gneisenau KTB from 23 February 1941. "1920 hours: Radar device locates Scharnhorst in 356º at 25,000 meters." At this time both German battleships were operating in the North Atlantic against enemy merchant shipping. http://www.kbismarck.com/gn-r...

paulcadogan wrote:Every time I've watched that short clip I am simply awestruck - thinking of how it survived Hood's cataclysmic destruction and came to rest in such plain view that it could be found, retrieved and brought home.

Yes, particularly when you think that Bismarck's bell is nowhere to be found.

HMS Hood Bell Recovered from the wreck!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG4YWMwkAvA

Dutch film "Michiel de Ruyter" (2015)

https://vimeo.com/114282835

Uploaded a new technical article in German to the website, where retired Kapitän zur See Alfred Schulze-Hinrichs, an expert in the field of seamanship wonders whether the battleship Bismarck could have reached St. Nazaire by contrarotating her three propellers. http://www.kbismarck.com/bismarck-seem...