Battleship Bismarck

The Bismarck was the largest (next to the Hood) and most modern battleship in the world in her day, weighing 42,343 tonnes. On 24 May 1941, in a sea battle together with the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, she sank the largest British battle cruiser, the Hood, with the 5th salvo of her 38-cm guns at the pack ice frontier off Greenland. Launched on 14 February 1940 at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg, she was, together with the identical Tirpitz, the most modern ship and the prestige object of the German navy. With a length of 251 m, the top of the mast reached 52 m above the water surface. A total of 17,450 t of steel were used as armour protection. The newly constructed heavy artillery fired 800 kg projectiles up to a distance of 34.2 km, penetrating 350 mm armour up to 21 km. While the Prinz Eugen received no hits in the battle on 24 May, the bow-damaged Bismarck set course for a French port. During the subsequent pursuit by British ships and aircraft, the ship was shot out of action by numerically superior forces of the Home Fleet after a torpedo hit the steering gear on 27 May 1941 and sank in the Atlantic about 800 km off the French coast. Of 2,092 men on board, 115 survived.

Model details:
- new kit form - highly detailed
- display ständer
- camouflage instructions and decals for two periods of operation: Baltic Sea trial period, autumn 1940 and May 1941

Parts: 659
Länge: 718 mm