[EvilCapitalist]

Impressive. That’s bigger than the Bismarck.

[Huskrrrr]

“the war effort focused on the construction of U-boats rather than battleships.”

True today, as well.

[Seruzawa]

Thank heaven for the Nazi’s predilection to waste immense resources on “super-weapons” that were nothing but boondoggles. Those German “geniuses” never had the sense to use the standardized industrial production model, but built most of their stuff so that part interchangeability was seldom possible. Having owned several German cars and motorcycles I can attest to the falsity of “superior” German engineering.

Overcomplex doesn’t begin to describe it. The old VW beetles were an anomaly. Once again the Germans are back to building over-engineered unreliable crap. Ask anyone who was foolish enough to buy a used Jetta.

Or the BMW motorcycles with serious driveline and frame breakage problems. Your chance of needing a major repair on a BMW is one and three. Worse than Harley, which is one in 4.

[Boogieman]

“Construction was halted in October as the war effort focused on the construction of U-boats rather than battleships.”

Yeah, battleships don’t do you much good if they can’t get out of the North Sea in one piece.

[Alas Babylon!]

Comparison of three projected battleship classes. From top: H-44 class, Montana class, H-39 class

[PAR35]

Expected level schoolboy blogger accuracy. The H class battleships laid down weren’t even close to 141,000 tons displacement. Try less than half that at ~63,600 tons displacement fully loaded. They were part of the H-39 plan, not the H-44 for which work never commenced.

[alternatives?]

Think about how many Mark III and IV tanks they could have built and had on hand instead of either the Bismarck or Tirpiz at the start of the war and the effect on the outcome. It is staggering.

[ETL]

In May of 1941 the war had just begun
The Germans had the biggest ship that had the biggest guns
The Bismarck was the fastest ship that ever sailed the sea
On her decks were guns as big as steers and shells as big as trees

Out of the cold and foggy night came the British ship the Hood
And every British seaman, he knew and understood
They had to sink the Bismarck the terror of the sea
Stop those guns as big as steers and those shells as big as trees

We’ll find the German battleship that’s makin’ such a fuss
We gotta sink the Bismarck ‘cause the world depends on us
Yeah hit the decks a runnin’ boys and spin those guns around
When we find the Bismarck we gotta cut her down

The Hood found the Bismarck and on that fatal day
The Bismarck started firing fifteen miles away
“We gotta sink the Bismarck!” was the battle sound
But when the smoke had cleared away, the mighty Hood went down

For six long days and weary nights they tried to find her trail
Churchill told the people: “put every ship asail
Cause somewhere on that ocean, I know she’s gotta be
We gotta sink the Bismarck to the bottom of the sea!”

We’ll find the German battleship that’s makin’ such a fuss
We gotta sink the Bismarck ‘cause the world depends on us
Yeah hit the decks a runnin’ boys and spin those guns around
When we find the Bismarck we gotta cut her down

The fog was gone the seventh day and they saw the morning sun
Ten hours away from homeland the Bismarck made its run
The Admiral of the British fleet said turn those bows around
We found that German battleship and we’re gonna cut her down

The British guns were aimed and the shells were coming fast
The first shell hit the Bismarck they knew she couldn’t last
That mighty German battleship is just a memory
“Sink the Bismarck!” was the battle cry that shook the seven seas

We found the German battleship ‘twas makin’ such a fuss
We had to sink the Bismarck cause the world depends on us
We hit the deck a runnin’ and we and spun those guns around
Yeah we found the mighty Bismarck and then we cut her down

We found the German battleship ‘twas makin’ such a fuss
We had to sink the Bismarck cause the world depends on us
We hit the deck a runnin’ and we and spun those guns around
We found the mighty Bismarck and then we cut her down