German Beauty: Bismarck 🇩🇪
Added 2025-08-07 09:46:46 +0000 UTCA quick history fact about Biscuit :3
In May 1941, after sinking the pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, with one shot that detonated her magazines and split her in two, Bismarck became the most hunted ship in the world. Which led to Churchill’s now-famous order:
"Sink the Bismarck, at any cost."
What followed was one of the most epic naval manhunts in modern history—dozens of British ships, submarines, aircraft carriers, even aircraft squadrons, all chasing one ship across the Atlantic.
Here's the fun (and rather tragic) part:
Bismarck was finally crippled not by another battleship, but by a squadron of biplanes—yes, the Brits love those things—from the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal. Even though they were flying in stormy weather, at low speed, and being made of canvas and hope, one of their torpedoes jammed Bismarck's rudder.
She could no longer steer.
She was now going in circles in the middle of the Atlantic.
That’s when the Royal Navy pounced.
She was then finished off by a whole squadron of British battleships and cruisers. Even then, it took hours and hundreds of shells to finally bring her down. Many believe her own crew scuttled her (which means they sank her) to prevent capture.
So yeah! That's the most advanced, fearsome warship of her time for ya. She is noble. She is proud. She is burdened by legacy. But she is still your Biscuit (･ω･)b
Also, someone gotta check if that thing in her mouth is compromised. The shipgirls have been acting "strangely" after you got your Equestrian-Excalibur upgrade from Akashi.
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blokrokker
2025-08-09 01:02:25 +0000 UTCHistorik N.
Chaswin 76
2025-08-07 16:51:43 +0000 UTCHer wreck at the bottom of the North Atlantic, 650 km (400 mi), west of Brest, is in very good condition considering the circumstances of her final stand. Robert Ballard, the oceanographer who discovered RMS Titanic’s wreck, also discovered Bismarck’s on June 8, 1989. Ballard's survey found no underwater penetrations of the ship's fully armoured citadel. Eight holes were found in the hull, one on the starboard side and seven on the port side, all above the waterline. One of the holes is in the deck, on the bow's starboard side. The angle and shape indicates the shell that created the hole was fired from Bismarck's port side and struck the starboard anchor chain. The anchor chain has disappeared down this hole. Six holes are amidships, three shell fragments pierced the upper splinter belt, and one made a hole in the main armour belt. Further aft a huge hole is visible, parallel to the aircraft catapult, on the deck. The submersibles recorded no sign of a shell penetration through the main or side armour here, and it is likely that the shell penetrated the deck armour only. Naval historians William Garzke and Robert Dulin noted that the British battleships were shooting at very close range; the flat trajectory of the shells made it difficult to hit the relatively narrow target represented by the belt armour above the waterline due to the high waves, caused by gale force winds, which shielded the belt armour as shells that fell short would either strike the water and ricochet up into the superstructure or explode after striking the waves. Ballard noted that he found no evidence of the internal implosions that occur when a hull that is not fully flooded sinks. The surrounding water, which has much greater pressure than the air in the hull, would crush the ship. Instead, Ballard points out that the hull is in relatively good condition; he states simply that "Bismarck did not implode." This suggests that Bismarck's compartments were flooded when the ship sank, supporting the scuttling theory. Ballard added "we found a hull that appears whole and relatively undamaged by the descent and impact". They concluded that the direct cause of sinking was scuttling: sabotage of engine-room valves by her crew, as claimed by German survivors. The whole stern had broken away; as it was not near the main wreckage and has not yet been found, it can be assumed this did not occur on impact with the sea floor. The missing section came away roughly where the torpedo had hit, raising questions of possible structural failure. The stern area had also received several hits, increasing the torpedo damage. This, coupled with the fact the ship sank stern first and had no structural support to hold it in place, suggests the stern detached at the surface. While no one onboard Bismarck when it sunk could confirm or deny that, Prinz Eugen's stern collapsed after it was similarly torpedoed in the stern in 1942. This prompted the Germans to strengthen the stern structures on all German capital ships. Fun fact, the reason the Fairey Swordfish biplanes were able to successfully torpedo Bismarck and cripple her rudder was because the outdated biplanes, along with being made of lightweight materials like canvas, had a very low speed, which meant Bismarck’s AA guns were unable to track them adequately. The demise of the mightiest battleship ever made was an outdated torpedo bomber that was too slow to track.
JDK
2025-08-07 12:10:24 +0000 UTC
