Which allied ships were involved in the sinking of the Bismarck on the 27 May 1941?
Sorry: the answer above has it the wrong way round: the Bismarck sank the British battle-cruiser HMS Hood. Hood’s ammunition magazine was hit: a huge explosion broke her in two and she sank in under three minutes with the loss of almost all hands. This precipitated a desperate mission, ordered by Churchill himself, to ‘sink the Bismarck’. Initially she was pursued by the cruisers Suffolk and Norfolk, but they lost contact with Bismarck. The next morning a British aircraft spotted Bismarck again and her position was reported. A chase began, involving the cruiser Sheffield, the battle-cruiser Renown and a number of aircraft deployed from the aircraft carriers Ark Royal and Victorious. Bismarck was hit by a torpedo fired from one of the aircraft and her steering badly damaged. Shortly after, the battleships Rodney and King George V and the cruiser Dorsetshire arrived on scene. During the night, Bismarck was repeatedly attacked by the destroyers Cossack, Maori, Piorun, Sikh and Zulu. The f
