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Last battle of the battleship Bismarck
24 May 1941 – 27 May 1941 · North Atlantic, west of Brest
On 24 May 1941, in the Denmark Strait, Bismarck sank the battlecruiser HMS Hood with the loss of all but three of her crew. Pursued by the Royal Navy, Bismarck was crippled by a torpedo from a Swordfish of HMS Ark Royal on 26 May and sunk on the morning of 27 May by battleships Rodney and King George V and cruiser Dorsetshire, with the loss of over 2,000 men. Germany abandoned surface raiding in the Atlantic thereafter.
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