Trumpeter Bismarck - 1:200 bouwpakket (onderweg) · Toemen Modelsport (2024)

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How many hits did the Bismarck take? ›

During the engagement the two British battleships fired some 700 large-caliber shells at Bismarck, and all told, King George V, Rodney, Dorsetshire, and Norfolk collectively fired some 2,800 shells, scoring around 400 hits.

Length: 717 mm.

See Ernst Lindemann. The Bismarck was probably as formidable as any battleship then in service. Her primary armament consisted of eight 38-cm guns, mounted in four turrets, with a maximum range of 23.6 miles. These 15-inch guns fired projectiles weighing 1,700 pounds.

Survivors from Bismarck are pulled aboard HMS Dorsetshire. More than 2,100 members of her crew died. British warships rescued 111 survivors from Bismarck before being obliged to withdraw because of an apparent U-boat sighting, leaving several hundred men to their fate.

THE BISMARCK

All components are already painted in historically accurate detail making this 1.25 metre-long model suitable for beginners and experts.

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British guns lobbed 2,876 shells at the ship, hitting it up to 400 times, yet it stayed afloat. A torpedo volley, though, broke through, sinking the Bismarck in four minutes on May 27. The ship took 2,131 lives with it. The British ships Rodney, King George V, Norfolk, and Dorsetshire all fire on the Bismarck.

The first of these attacks would take place in 1866, when the man who would come to be known as the 'Iron Chancellor' – Otto von Bismarck – would survive five shots from an assassin's gun.

There was little doubt that Hood, the most powerful warship in the fleet, could easily take care of Bismarck. In this photograph taken from the deck of the German cruiser Prinz Eugen, the Bismarck fires its 15-inch guns at the battleship Prince of Wales and battlecruiser Hood.

How many rounds did the Bismarck take? ›

For example at Denmark Straight Bismarck probably scored 7 hits but may have only scored 5. 3 for definitely on POW and between 2 and 4 on Hood from 93 shots.