The Bismarck – the deadly and impregnable pride of the German fleet – has been spotted in the North Sea. The Bismarck had a crew of 2,200.To overcome the fear of damage at sea, Raeder’s plan was for the German Navy to concentrate a powerful naval force in the Atlantic so that there would not be a concern about convoys and their protection. At 20.22, the Norfolk spotted both German ships.The ‘Suffolk’s report had reached the ‘Hood’ and Admiral Holland, on the ‘Hood’ concluded that there were 300 miles between his ship and the Bismarck. HMS Hood was a massively armed battlecruiser with what was thought to be armour equal… At 06.00 a salvo from the Bismarck hit the Hood. To boost his fleet, Tovey ordered the ‘Victorious’ to sail on the 22nd May and on the following day the battle cruiser HMS Repulse sailed.At noon on May 23rd, the Bismarck and the Prinz Eugen entered the Denmark Strait, between Iceland and Greenland.
The Royal Navy also knew that the Germans would be forced to sail through a small area of sea and at 19.22 on May 23rd, the cruiser ‘Suffolk’ spotted both the Bismarck and the Prinz Eugen. At 08.00, Swordfish from the Victorious were sent up to look for the Bismarck but found nothing. Morse dispatches a telegraph message from the U.S. Capitol to Alfred Vail at a railroad station in Baltimore, Maryland. He intended for the Bismarck, the Prinz Eugen, the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau to operate in the Atlantic fully supported with supply and reconnaissance ships – with such a force, no convoy would be safe regardless of how many naval protection ships they had. The Admiralty remained concerned for the safety of the convoys in the Atlantic as there was always the danger the ‘Bismarck’ might slip away.
At night both ships left, and not long after this the area around Kors Fjord was bombed by the British.To get into the Atlantic, both ships had to pass north of Scapa Flow – one of Britain’s largest naval bases.
The ships sailed on May 18th – but on May 20th, they were spotted by the Swedish cruiser ‘Gotland’ off the Swedish coast and the admiral in command of both ships – Lütjens – knew that such information would be received in London before the 20th was out. Directed by Lewis Gilbert.
On May 27th at 08.47, the ‘Rodney’ opened fire on the ‘Bismarck’.
In fact, the Bismarck was doing the opposite – sailing east for a port in Biscay. What gave away the Bismarck was the Bismarck itself.The Admiralty did realise its mistake and informed Tovey that the Bismarck was, in fact, making for the Biscay ports. In the Battle of the Denmark Strait (May 24, 1941), the British battleship HMS Hood was hit at long range by a salvo from Bismarck, exploded, and sank, leaving only three survivors. Other senior officers on the Bismarck advised Lütjens to return to Germany buoyed by the success against the ‘Hood’. The Bismarck, probably Germany’s most famous battleship in The Bismarck displaced over 50,000 tons and 40% of this displacement was armour. Without their positioning information, the ‘Hood’ could easily have lost contact with the Bismarck.
Wiki User . The information sent back by the ‘Suffolk’ led the Hood to believe that she would be just 20 miles from the Bismarck at 05.30 on May 24th.
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Police had no clues as to what had On May 24, 1775, John Hancock is elected president of the Second Continental Congress.
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