USS Washington (BB-56) running post-overhaul trials in Puget Sound, Washington, on 10 September 1945. Jawohl, mein Damen und Herren, I dare say the Bismarck easily makes this list. It required the combined efforts of the HMS Ark Royal’s Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers and the battleships HMS Rodney and King George V – along with the scuttling charges of the Bismarck’s own crew – to finally sink her. This ship got Winston Churchill’s personal attention. The Bismarck’s 15-inch guns sank the HMS Hood, the pride of the Royal Navy and its largest largest vessel, in a mere three minutes, leaving only three survivors of out a 1,418-man crew. The Kriegsmarine warship that inspired both a movie that was a box office hit, and a musical single that was an even bigger hit. This is the most famous of all German battleships. Their heyday as the dominant form of naval power projection may be long finished, but they enjoyed a magnificent run.įor an old-school battleship enthusiast who readily waxes nostalgic, it’s pretty challenging to narrow down a top-five list of history’s best battlewagons, but “ by Jingo”, I’ll give it a try. Aahh, the good ol’ days of so-called “ capital ships,” i.e.
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