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Excellent drawings. I did some research into the Scharnhorst a while back and published the results both on my ww2 webste and also as a chapter in a book I was lucky enough to get published. What I cannot explain is the thinking behind Admiral Bey's orders that fateful night at the North Cape, compl...

Not absolutely positive but I think we may find this was hereditary as titles in those days were not found in opened packets of corn flakes, so to speak. From my copy: is a former naval officer, lawyer and ambassador. Born in Spandau into a family where the profession of arms was an established trad...

I was not talking about the level at which she landed but the angle of descent. She started her descent miles from where she sank beneath the waves.

I think the turrets are missing due to the angle of dive of Bismarck. I understand she sank at quite a distance from where she "settled" due to the angle of her descent.

ISBN 0-583-135760-9
The Bodley Head Ltd
1984 Second Print.
Paperback 334 pages

If you have not read this book yet, do so. It is an excellent account of life aboard the Bismarck.

Battleship Bismarck A Survivor's Story. Baron Burkard von Mullenheim-Rechberg.

Thank you, it looks interesting. I will place it on my german surrender page on my site, thanks.

The rudder was jammed by the torpedo hit by the Ark Royal's Fairey Swordfish causing the ship to turn back towards the pursuers. Whether Bismarck went down due to the torpedo damage or scuttling was never really conclusively proven one way or the other. In the light of the evidence now known, I woul...

It was always a dilemma until James Cameron filmed those never to be forgotten images of Bismarck and I think that he proved, once and for all, that Bismarck went down due to being scuttled. The torpedoes from Dorsetshire did not exactly do all that much damage due to the double skin design, these t...