3 Key Points: The Bismarck, Germany's pride and the largest battleship built in Europe, was launched in 1939 and commissioned in 1940, only to meet a tragic end within eight months of service.

Apart from the Japanese, the only serious competitors in the “super-battleship” weight class were the Soviet Sovetsky Soyuz class, and the German H-39 class.

Like most German battleships, Scharnhorst was under-armed for its size. The German eleven-inch gun was a very effective weapon, with a high rate of fire, but it lacked sufficient punch to ...

Apart from the Japanese, the only serious competitors in the “super-battleship” weight class were the Soviet Sovetsky Soyuz class, and the German H-39 class.

this is the "wisconsin" battleship, one of the 4 "iowa"-class battleships built by the u.s. navy in the second world war. this is the largest, most powerful, most destructive ship the navy ever built.

In the late autumn of 1941 a select group of British naval men, volunteers for a mission of danger and hardship, proceeded to a lonely country house and began a strange program of training.Their ...

While German U-Boats are the most deadly component of the Third Reich's naval arsenal, it had a sizeable fleet of battleships as well. The United States even used a surrendered German battleship ...

But on the fourth of July 1942, after the German super-battleship Tirpitz,had been sent out to attack us, the convoy was ordered to scatter. It was every ship for herself.

WESTFALEN BEATS CONTRACT.; New German Battleship Shows Greater Speed and Horse Power Than Required. Share full article. Oct. 12, 1909. Credit... The New York Times Archives.