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.

Prinz Eugen was a marvel of German naval engineering from the 1930s, renowned for her advanced design and capabilities. She played a key role in World War II, most notably in the Battle of the ...

The age of the steel line-of-battleship really began in the 1880s, with the construction of a series of warships that could carry and independently aim heavy guns external to the hull. In 1905 ...

Prinz Eugen saw action during Operation Rheinübung, an attempted breakout into the Atlantic Ocean with the battleship Bismarck in May 1941. The two ships destroyed the British battlecruiser Hood and ...

The Channel Dash or Unternehmen Zerberus (Operation Cerberus) was a German naval operation during World War II. A Kriegsmarine squadron of both of the Scharnhorst-class battleships, the heavy cruiser ...