But Bismarck and Prinz Eugen were discovered by the Royal Navy, which attempted to intercept the ships as they sailed through Denmark Strait and into the Atlantic on May 24.

One such piece of surrendered equipment was the Prinz Eugen, a 697-foot Admiral Hipper Class German Heavy Cruiser named after Prince Eugene of Savoy, a 17th and 18th century Austrian general.

When Britain discovered that Germany had deployed the formidable Bismarck and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen to wreak havoc in the Atlantic, they scrambled to intercept them at any cost. On May 24, 1941, ...

A German naval officer on the Prinz Eugen gives a careful account of the pursuit and sinking of the Bismarck in May 1941. Das Geheimnis Der "Bismarck." | Foreign Affairs ...

The sinking of the German battleship, the Bismarck, in the Atlantic Ocean on 27 May 1941 - following an eight-day pursuit - marked a turning point in the war. The Bismarck and her escort, the Prinz ...

The Germans planned to use the pair as commerce raiders, with Bismarck drawing off or destroying the capital ship escorts of any convoys, while Prinz Eugen concentrated on the merchant ships ...

THE BISMARCK EPISODE (219 pp.)—Captain Russell Grenfell — Macmillan ($3). It was the Bismarck, all right. There, in Grimstad Fiord on the Norwegian coast, lay the new Nazi 50,000-ton ...

The 'Bismarck' On 18 May 1941 Germany's Bismarck battleship, accompanied by the Prinz Eugen , sailed with over 2,000 men on board from Gdynia on the Baltic coast.

Bismarck, May 1941, taken from Prinz Eugen That allowed Germany to build a surface fleet of up to 35% of the size of Britain's, and up to 45% in the case of submarines. Five months later, Bismarck ...

Dabei kommen 1.400 Soldaten ums Leben. Die "Prinz of Wales" wird ebenfalls leicht getroffen, das Partnerschiff der "Prinz Eugen", "Bismarck", sinkt drei Tage später.