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Likewise, dear Ulrich, very glad to hear from you. It seems like ages ago that you furnished your kitchen with those battlehips who were engaged in the battle of Tsushima (Yellow sea) for my documentation...Although with the Bismarck we are already near the end of these complicated constructions, my...

Most pictures as for other forum members go ..contain an answer, and indeed the 'fire-hose cannister' is more likely a shell casing ( 3) But what about picture nr 2, can't make head nor tail....

I will never forget the comment of one of the Swordfish pilots saying that when the B. is firing at you, it's like looking straight into a blast furnace...

Bismarck was a big ship plenty of room(s) to hide a cat, or bring one on board in spite of the German Navy's assurance to me "dass Oscar lediglich eine Britische Legende war..."

Anyway, I seem to omit words, thinking the AngloAmerican language so efficient, that words like that - so - then are often left out, and so on. My dealings with Müllenheim-Rechberg was anything but romantic or Schönes Wetter Sailing, they were so full of little errands, that getting him to talk abou...

Hi Rico,
have these pictures been identified on the forum?
Nr.7 from the top: a signalman stand, upside-down, Admiralsbrücke!
Doesn't look right, no?
Rob.

I think that Not being the only surviving officer of the Bismarck, but being a survivor officer überhaupt meant that Müllenheim-Rechberg was whisked off to Trent Parks, a WW2 interrogation centre, a building which houses today part of Londen University, where my Welsh girlfriend used to teach 'Compu...