The development of heavy warships since 1906 when HMS Dreadnought, the first all big gun ship, was launched was a steady climb in size and power. But those factors alone do not warrant top billing. True, her engineering and fire control, engines and gunnery were superb. In fact, rather than the most powerful battleship in the world, she was actually among the ranks of less heavily armed capital warships in 1941. What was once believe about Bismarck is pure fiction. Like many other historical icons, Bismarck’s power has been greatly magnified and distorted.
But most legends have no more validity than what one accepts at face value. Bear in mind that the movie was made in 1959, a full 18 years after the Bismarck had been sunk. But the world has never seen such ships! We are sailing in the largest, the most powerful battleship afloat, superior to anything in the British Navy! We are faster, we are unsinkable!”įrom that point on, the viewer is left with little doubt of the German warship’s invincibility and power. We are going to sink their ships until they no longer dare to let them sail! It is true we are only two ships. I can now tell you that we are going out into the North Atlantic to attack the British convoys.
With the typically bellicose posturing usually portrayed in American war films, Lütjens proclaims, “Officers and men of the Bismarck! This is the fleet commander. In an early scene, German Fleet Admiral Günther Lütjens addresses the crew of the battleship as they head out to the Atlantic.
Forrester’s bestselling book The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck, the documentary-style film tells a gripping and reasonably factual account of the most famous sea chase in history. In 1960 Twentieth Century Fox released the film Sink the Bismarck! Based on C.S.
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