"International Center for the History of Electronic Games received a software donation of several SSI, including Computer Bismarck with the source code for preservation. Computer Bismarck Computer Bismarck is a computer wargame developed and published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI) in 1980. The game is based on the last battle of the battleship Bismarck, in which British Armed Forces pursue the German ""Bismarck"" in 1941. It is SSI's first game, and features turn-based gameplay and two-dimensional graphics. The development staff consisted of two programmers, Joel Billings and John Lyons, who programmed the game in BASIC. Originally developed for the TRS-80,"
"from the battleship ""Bismarck"" and operate independently against the enemy's merchant shipping. ""Prinz Eugen"" and ""Bismarck"" separated at 18:14 that evening. ""Bismarck"" was sunk by the concentrated effort of the Royal Navy on 27 May 1941 while ""Prinz Eugen"" arrived safely at Brest, France on 1 June 1941. Helmuth Brinkmann Helmuth Brinkmann (12 March 1895 – 26 September 1983) was a ""Vizeadmiral"" in the ""Kriegsmarine"" during World War II who captained the heavy cruiser . Prior to World War II he commanded the aviso , Adolf Hitler's state yacht. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the"
"loss of life. Most experts agree that the battle damage would have caused her to sink eventually. The wreck was located in June 1989 by Robert Ballard, and has since been further surveyed by several other expeditions. The two s were designed in the mid-1930s by the German ""Kriegsmarine"" as a counter to French naval expansion, specifically the two s France had started in 1935. Laid down after the signing of the Anglo-German Naval Agreement of 1935, ""Bismarck"" and her sister were nominally within the limit imposed by the Washington regime that governed battleship construction in the interwar period. The"
"Bismarck Archipelago. On 2 January 1943, ""Argonaut"" sank the Japanese gunboat ""Ebon Maru"" in the Bismarck Sea. On 10 January, ""Argonaut"" spotted a convoy of five freighters and their escorting destroyers—, , and —returning to Rabaul from Lae. By chance, an army aircraft—which was out of bombs—was flying overhead and witnessed ""Argonaut""′s attack. A crewman on board the plane saw one destroyer hit by a torpedo, and the destroyers promptly counterattacking. ""Argonaut""′s bow suddenly broke the water at an unusual angle. It was apparent that a depth charge had severely damaged the submarine. The destroyers continued circling ""Argonaut"", pumping shells"
"German battleship ""Bismarck"" in 1941, a stroke of tactical intelligence that helped lead to the warship's destruction. By the end of the war, 320 men had died in 41 missions by flying boats based at Lough Erne. In 2007, memorial plaques were unveiled in Counties Donegal and Fermanagh. Donegal Corridor The Donegal Corridor () was a narrow strip of Irish airspace linking Lough Erne to the international waters of the Atlantic Ocean through which the Irish Government permitted flights by British military aircraft during World War II. This was a contravention of Irish neutrality and was not publicised at the"
"of the battleship ""Bismarck"" on 27 May 1941 caused great consternation in the Kriegsmarine. Around the end of May, British Admiralty was reading Enigma messages with a delay of two to three days and was actively searching for ""Bismarck"" support shipping, and they found and sunk them. By 21 June 1941, they had sunk the tanker ""Belchen"", the tanker ""Esso Hamburg"" scuttled by her crew after taking fire from HMS London and HMS Brilliant on 4 June, the supply ship ""Egerland"" Although the British Admiralty had intelligence on the location of the tanker ""Gedania"" and the ex-Norwegian scout Gonzenheim, they"
"Operation Rheinübung Operation ""Rheinübung"" (""Exercise Rhine"") was the sortie into the Atlantic by the new German battleship and heavy cruiser on 18–27 May 1941, during World War II. This operation to block Allied shipping to the United Kingdom culminated with the sinking of ""Bismarck"". During both World Wars, the island of Britain was dependent upon huge numbers of merchant ships to bring in food and essential raw materials, and protecting this lifeline was one of the highest priorities for British forces. If this lifeline could be severed, the British Empire in Europe would have to either sue for peace; negotiate"
"Sink the Bismark ""Sink the Bismark"" (later ""Sink the Bismarck"") is a march song by country music singer Johnny Horton and songwriter Tillman Franks, based on the pursuit and eventual sinking of the German battleship ""Bismarck"" in May 1941, during World War II. Horton released this song through Columbia Records in 1960, when it reached #3 on the charts. As originally released, the record label used the common misspelling ""Bismark""; this error was corrected for later releases of the song. It was inspired by the 1960 British war movie ""Sink the Bismarck!"" and was in fact (with the producer John"
"Wars. sank here after striking a naval mine on 22 June 1918. In 1920 sank after losing power and drifting into a reef in a storm with the loss of 575 lives. On 28 December 1943, the Battle of the Bay of Biscay was fought between and and a group of German destroyers as part of Operation Stonewall during World War II. sank on 25 August 1944 in position , when she struck a mine. All hands were lost. On 12 April 1970, sank in the Bay of Biscay due to a fire that crippled the submarine's nuclear reactors. An"
"Expedition: Bismarck Expedition: Bismarck is a 2002 documentary film produced for the Discovery Channel by Andrew Wight and James Cameron, directed by James Cameron and Gary Johnstone, and narrated by Lance Henriksen. The film follows an underwater expedition to the German Battleship ""Bismarck"" and digitally reconstructs events that led up to the ship's sinking during World War II. In 2003 the film was honored with an Emmy award for Outstanding Sound Editing for Non-Fiction Programming. In World War II, German Battleship Bismarck sank after being unsuccessful in its attempt to escape from the Royal Navy, lead by John Tovey. Discovered"
"day in the Bay of Biscay during a deep dive trial. Fifty-one men died; there were no survivors. German submarine U-263 German submarine ""U-263"" was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's ""Kriegsmarine"" during World War II. The submarine was laid down on 8 June 1941 at the ""Bremer-Vulkan-Vegesacker Werft"" (yard) in Bremen as yard number 28. She was launched on 18 March 1942 and commissioned on 6 May under the command of ""Kapitänleutnant"" Kurt Nölke. In two patrols, she sank two ships of . She was a member of one wolfpack. She was sunk in January 1944 in the"
"the Atlantic in early 1941. ""Bismarck"" and ""Prinz Eugen"" went on the last Atlantic raiding mission, Operation ""Rheinübung"", in May 1941. ""Bismarck"" sank the British battlecruiser but was herself sunk three days later. The loss of ""Bismarck"" led Hitler to prohibit further sorties into the Atlantic; the remaining capital ships were concentrated in Norway for use as a fleet in being and to threaten convoys to the Soviet Union on the Murmansk Run. Despite the fact that Plan Z produced no new warships in time for World War II, the plan represented the strategic thinking of the ""Oberkommando der Marine"""
"stood at 21 ships sunk, totalling , and three more damaged, totalling . He returned to Germany on 14 July 1947. Wohlfarth died on 13 August 1982 in Villingen, Germany, at the age of 67 years. On 8 June 1989, three days after what would have been his 74th birthday, the wreck of ""Bismarck"" was located. Herbert Wohlfarth Heinrich Wilhelm Herbert Wohlfarth (5 June 1915 – 13 August 1982) was a successful World War II U-boat commander. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (). The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded"
"Leonard B. Smith Leonard B. ""Tuck"" Smith (October 29, 1915 in Mayview, Missouri – May 16, 2006 in Friday Harbor, Washington) was an American pilot who spotted the German battleship ""Bismarck"" prior to its being sunk by British naval and air forces. Smith was the first American to participate in a World War II naval victory and is sometimes considered the first American to be directly involved in World War II for his actions. A number of US pilots, who had ferried Catalinas across to the UK and were supposed to familiarize the RAF crews with the plane, were unofficially"
"German battleship Bismarck Bismarck was the first of two s 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 were the largest battleships ever built by Germany, and two of the largest built by any European power. In the course of the warship's eight-month career under its sole commanding officer, Captain Ernst Lindemann, ""Bismarck"" conducted only one offensive"
"he conceded that scuttling ""may have hastened the inevitable, but only by a matter of minutes."" Ballard later concluded that ""As far as I was concerned, the British had sunk the ship regardless of who delivered the final blow."" Notes Citations Online sources German battleship Bismarck Bismarck was the first of two s 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"""
"sank. According to documents from the Naval Department, the following are survivors of the sinking: German submarine U-352 German submarine ""U-352"" was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's ""Kriegsmarine"" during World War II. The submarine was laid down on 11 March 1940 at the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft yard at Flensburg, launched on 7 May 1941, and commissioned on 28 August 1941 under the command of ""Kapitänleutnant"" Hellmut Rathke. She was part of the 3rd U-boat Flotilla, and was ready for front-line service by 1 January 1942. German Type VIIC submarines were preceded by the shorter Type VIIB submarines. ""U-352"" had"
"States Army Air Forces and Royal Australian Air Force from 2 March 1943, known as the Battle of the Bismarck Sea. ""Kyokusei Maru"" was bombed by B-17s of the 64th Bombardment Squadron on 2 March and sank at , the first ship in the Japanese convoy sunk during the battle. The destroyers ""Yukikaze"" and ""Asagumo"" plucked 950 survivors from the water. The two destroyers landed the survivors at Lae. The rest of the 486 soldiers and sailors on board were killed. SS Kyokusei Maru SS ""Kyokusei Maru"" (Kanji:) was a transport ship of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War"
"on 10 August 1944. In the Bay of Biscay, she was attacked and sunk by an Australian Sunderland flying boat of No. 461 Squadron RAAF on the 13th. There were no deaths; seventy-one men survived.The German version of U 270 reports of 10 men dead and 71 survived; the boat was overloaded with staff, being evacuated. ""U-270"" took part in seven wolfpacks, namely. German submarine U-270 German submarine ""U-270"" was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's ""Kriegsmarine"" during World War II. The submarine was laid down on 15 October 1941 at the ""Bremer-Vulkan-Vegesacker Werft"" (yard) in Bremen as yard"
"the battlecruisers , which had been sunk by ""Bismarck"", and and the battleship , both of which were sunk by Japanese bombers in late 1941. The Royal Navy provided critical cover for the British and French troops during the Dunkirk evacuation and rescued the bulk of the troops, the remainder being evacuated by a fleet of small ships. Later the Navy provided cover for the Dieppe Raid catastrophe, that saw 3,623 of the 6,086 men who made it ashore killed, wounded, or captured. In the summer of 1941, the Soviet Union entered the war on the side of Britain. Although"
"German submarine U-192 German submarine ""U-192"" was a very short-lived Type IXC/40 U-boat of Nazi Germany's ""Kriegsmarine"" built during World War II for service in the Battle of the Atlantic. During her maiden voyage in May 1943 she was sunk by a British warship, on 6 May 1943. German Type IXC/40 submarines were slightly larger than the original Type IXCs. ""U-192"" had a displacement of when at the surface and while submerged. The U-boat had a total length of , a pressure hull length of , a beam of , a height of , and a draught of . The"
"dramatic effect the film showed ""Bismarck"" sinking a British destroyer and shooting down two aircraft, neither of which happened. That same year, Johnny Horton released the song ""Sink the Bismark"". The wreck of ""Bismarck"" was discovered on 8 June 1989 by Dr. Robert Ballard, the oceanographer responsible for finding . ""Bismarck"" was found to be resting upright at a depth of approximately , about west of Brest. The ship struck an extinct underwater volcano, which rose some above the surrounding abyssal plain, triggering a landslide. ""Bismarck"" slid down the mountain, coming to a stop two-thirds down. Ballard's survey found no"
"Two attacks on Allied shipping had failed, when ""U-192"" was picked up by an escort of convoy ONS 5, HMS ""Loosestrife"", early on 6 May 1943. The escort sank the U-boat with depth charges, killing its entire crew of 55. ""U-192"" took part in three wolfpacks, namely. German submarine U-192 German submarine ""U-192"" was a very short-lived Type IXC/40 U-boat of Nazi Germany's ""Kriegsmarine"" built during World War II for service in the Battle of the Atlantic. During her maiden voyage in May 1943 she was sunk by a British warship, on 6 May 1943. German Type IXC/40 submarines were"
"took her to the mid-Atlantic once again. She sank the ""Norvik"" west of Teneriffe on 9 January 1943. Two days later, she damaged the ""British Dominion"" ""northeast of the Canary Islands"". She was sunk west of Madeira on 23 February 1943 by depth charges dropped by the sloop (ex-US Coast Guard Cutter) . Fifty-one men died; there were no survivors. ""U-522"" took part in a wolfpack, namely, German submarine U-522 German submarine ""U-522"" was a Type IXC U-boat of Nazi Germany's ""Kriegsmarine"" during World War II. She was laid down at the Deutsche Werft (yard) in Hamburg as yard number"
"Sinking of the RMS Lusitania The sinking of the Cunard ocean liner RMS ""Lusitania"" occurred on Friday, 7 May 1915 during the First World War, as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom which had implemented a naval blockade of Germany. The ship was identified and torpedoed by the German U-boat and sank in 18 minutes. The vessel went down off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland, killing 1,198 and leaving 761 survivors. The sinking turned public opinion in many countries against Germany, contributed to the American entry into World War I and became an iconic symbol in military"
"German submarine U-182 German submarine ""U-182"" was a Type IX D 2 U-boat of Nazi Germany's ""Kriegsmarine"" which served in World War II. Her keel was laid down on 7 April 1941 at DeSchiMAG AG Weser, Bremen as yard number 1022; she was launched on 3 March 1942 and commissioned on 30 June of the same year. She carried out a single war patrol, sinking five merchant vessels and spending 159 days at sea. ""U-182"" was probably sunk near Madeira on 16 May 1943 by . 61 crew members and three prisoners of war died. The boat had been unsuccessfully"
"days. After being crippled by a torpedo bomber on the evening of May 26, the ""Bismarck"" was sunk the following morning. ""Computer Bismarck"" is a turn-based computer wargame in which players control British forces against the battleship ""Bismarck"" and other German units. The German forces can be controlled by either a computer opponent (named ""Otto von Computer"") or a second player. The game takes place on a map of the North Atlantic Ocean on which letters from the English alphabet represent military units and facilities (airfields and ports). Units have different capabilities, as well as statistics that determine their mobility,"
"part in the sinking of the German battleship . The night before ""Bismarck"" was sunk, she fired a salvo of four torpedoes and claimed a hit after hearing underwater explosions, but actually there were no hits. ""Sikh"" transferred to the Mediterranean serving as part of Force H. On 13 December 1941, ""Sikh"" – together with , and the Dutch vessel – sank the Italian cruisers and in the Battle of Cape Bon. On 4 August 1942, ""Sikh"" together with , and sank the German submarine off Haifa. On 14 September, ""Sikh"" and ""Zulu"" landed and then covered Operation Agreement, a"
"the German ships and and the British ships and . ""Hood"" was sunk and the damaged ""Prince of Wales"" was forced to retire. ""Bismarck"", also damaged, ordered her consort to proceed independently while she headed for the French port of St Nazaire, which was the only port on the Atlantic coast with a dry dock able to accommodate a ship of her size. She was intercepted by the British and sunk en route. Britain's Naval Intelligence Division first proposed a commando raid on the dock in late 1941. When the German battleship ""Tirpitz"" was declared operational in January 1942, the"
"France for the German Battleship ""Bismarck"" in 1989, using an ocean-crawling robot. The 15,000 foot deep water in which it sank is 4,000 feet deeper than that where the ""Titanic"" sank. He attempted to determine whether it had been sunk by the British or was scuttled by its own crew. Three weeks after the expedition however, personal tragedy struck him when his 21-year-old son, Todd, who had aided him in the search, was killed in a car accident. Ballard later published a book about the quest, ""The Discovery of the Bismarck"" (1990). The discovery was also documented for National Geographic"
"Atlantic Ocean via the gap between Iceland and the Faroe Islands. While heading for the Bay of Biscay, she was attacked and sunk by an American USAAF Liberator on 8 July 1943. Forty-six men died; there were no survivors. ""U-232"" took part in three wolfpacks, namely. German submarine U-232 German submarine ""U-232"" was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's ""Kriegsmarine"" during World War II. The submarine was laid down on 17 January 1942 at the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft yard at Kiel as yard number 662, launched on 15 October and commissioned on 28 November under the command of ""Kapitänleutnant"""
"Australia. He remained with Flinders until death. He has been the subject of a number of works of literature, and statues have been placed in his honour, including one that sits on a window sill at the State Library of New South Wales in Sydney. Previously named Oscar, he was the ship's cat of the German battleship ""Bismarck"". When she was sunk on 27 May 1941, only 116 out of a crew of over 2,200 survived. Oscar was picked up by the destroyer HMS ""Cossack"" (one of the ships responsible for destroying ""Bismarck""). ""Cossack"" herself was torpedoed and sunk a"
"German submarine U-292 German submarine ""U-292"" was a Type VIIC/41 U-boat of Nazi Germany's ""Kriegsmarine"" during World War II. She was laid down on 12 November 1942 by the Vegesacker Werft (yard) at Bremen-Vegesack as yard number 57, launched on 20 July 1943, and commissioned on 25 August with ""Oberleutnant zur See"" Werner Schmidt in command. She was sunk by a British aircraft, west of Trondheim in May 1944. In one patrol, she sank or damaged no ships. German Type VIIC/41 submarines were preceded by the shorter Type VIIB submarines. ""U-292"" had a displacement of when at the surface and"