| Grant, they look absolutely superb on the water. Many thanks for the shots, great pictures.
Please add more when you can, the Bismarck is one of my favourite vessels and was a major achievement in ship design at the time. The way she combines sleek Atlantic hull sea keeping design combined with a broad stable gun platform was quite something. She was also way ahead technologically of anything else being built at the time.
I once read two very interesting books quite by chance at the same time. One described the training of a Kriegsmarine U-Boat engineer and the other a Royal navy sailor. The difference in training was worlds apart and helped to understand why the German navy was such an efficient team when it came to such issues as gunnery.
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“Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack, Butting through the Channel in the mad March days" |