Battleship Bismarck

Author: Artur Resler
Class: C7
Type: Battleship
Name: Bismarck
Category: Senior
Scale: 1:200
Width: 350 mm
Height: 400 mm

Bismarck was the first of two Bismarck-class battleships built for Nazi Germany’s Kriegsmarine. Named after Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the ship was laid down at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg in July 1936 and launched in February 1939. Work was completed in August 1940, when she was commissioned into the German fleet. Bismarck and her sister ship Tirpitz were the largest battleships ever built by Germany, and two of the largest built by any European power.