On May 18, 1941, the German battleship Bismarck began its first ever combat mission. It was the most powerful ship in Europe ...

Already the largest nation in continental Europe and a potent land power, a succession of German leaders dreamed ... British Royal Navy. The Bismarck was the lead ship of her class, constructed ...

The Tirpitz and the Bismarck were each meant to serve as commerce ... This, in turn, made the ships of the convoy vulnerable to the German U-Boats prowling the North Sea. Because of the mere ...

Several hours after the collision happened, the cargo ship's owner said one crew member was missing. Efforts to locate the missing crew member were ongoing, the German-based Ernst Russ said in a ...

The urgent British hunt and the German ship's efforts to escape are described through vintage film and recollections of both British and German veterans of the battles.

However, she was an old ship, due for modernisation ... lifted until Britain and Germany signed the Anglo-German Naval Agreement in 1935. Bismarck, May 1941, taken from Prinz Eugen That allowed ...

German customs authorities have seized the Panama-flagged tanker 'Eventin', which has been anchored off Germany's Baltic Sea coast since January. The ship is believed to be part of Russia's so called ...