UPDATES AND NEWS
09 November 2025 - Revised the report of Leonard B. "Tuck" Smith, the American US Navy Ensign who discovered the Bismarck on 26 May 1941.
29 October 2025 - Transcribed into HTML format the War Diary of Admiral Lütjens for the period between 23 March and 15 May 1941.
19 October 2025 - Added the Fleet Command intelligence order for Operation Rheinübung.
12 March 2025 - Updated the career timeline of the Bismarck.
12 January 2025 - Started to transcribe a wartime publication from the High Command of the Kriegsmarine dealing with Bismarck Atlantic operation. This is part of "M.Dv. Nr. 601" (Marine-Dienstvorschrift Nr. 601), a series of publications which evaluated operations and tactics of important events of the war at sea. Check the link below with what has already been uploaded to the website:
Die Atlantikunternehmung der Kampfgruppe Bismarck-Prinz Eugen.
... and here is the link to the English translation (not yet finished):
The Atlantic Operation of the Bismarck-Prinz Eugen Battlegroup.
24 September 2024 - Added two new pages to the site: Bismarck vs Prince of Wales and Bismarck vs Yamato.
19 February 2024 - Updated the career timeline of the Bismarck.
19 June 2023 - Transcribed into HTML format the original German battle report on the air raid against the battleship Tirpitz on 3 April 1944. Including over 70 photos and drawings.
25 February 2023 - Revised the e-book Kriegsmarine am Feind which can be purchased from the website. Scanned photos in better quality, corrected several typos, and improved the English translation overall.
14 March 2022 - Added a new commercial model to the website: Flyhawk Bismarck 1/2000 (by Stefano Schembri).
16 September 2021 - Transcribed into HTML format this original German article from 1943: "Considerations for Calculations of Heavy Armor for Ships." by B. Hoyer.
03 September 2021 - Began to upload the English translation of the "Unterlagen und Richtlinien zur Bestimmung der Hauptkampfentfernung und der Geschosswahl", the so-called "GKdos100". Booklet a), the text volume, has already been transcribed in HTML format.
09 June 2021 - Improved the conversion calculators of weights and measures. A very useful tool to convert from metric to imperial system and viceversa.
09 February 2021 - Added the operational history of the British battleship Prince of Wales, including a new detailed color drawing depicting the ship at the time she fought the Bismarck on 24 May 1941.
02 October 2020 - Updated the fire control of the Bismarck.
18 August 2020 - Updated the career timeline of the Bismarck.
30 April 2020 - Added a new detailed color line drawing of the Bismarck as she appeared on 24 May 1941.
25 July 2019 - Transcribed Bismarck's artillery testing report (AVKS-700) into HTML format.
18 July 2019 - Added a photo of Bismarck crewmember Heinz Akthun.
03 July 2019 - Added the complete original speech of Adolf Hitler during the launching of the Bismarck.
01 July 2019 - Updated the armor protection of the Bismarck.
30 June 2019 - Added some excerpts on warship displacement from the testimony of Admiral Raeder at the Nuremberg Trials.
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