IRCWCC Ship List Specifications:
Nation: Germany
Type: BB
Class: 6
Units: 6.5
Speed: 24
LOA: 68.58"
Beam: 9.82"
Shafts: 2
Rudder(s): 1
PRE-ORDER: This kit is still being designed. The hull is done and the rest of the kit is in progress. Pre-orders tell me which designs to finish next, and your ship date will be confirmed by email as the design is completed.
Bismarck was the largest warship Germany had yet built, commissioned in August 1940 with eight 38 cm guns. In May 1941 she sailed with Prinz Eugen to raid Atlantic shipping, and on 24 May she sank HMS Hood in the Battle of the Denmark Strait.
A torpedo from an Ark Royal Swordfish jammed her rudders, and on 27 May she was brought to battle by King George V and Rodney and sunk. Robert Ballard found her wreck in 1989.
Read more about DKM Bismarck on Wikipedia
Background photo: German Federal Archive (Bundesarchiv), CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons (source).
Buy this kit along with qualifying components and you get $5 off your ship kit for each qualifying component, up to $35. Add them to your cart to see the discount!
Bismarck runs two shafts, so most builds use two drive ESCs, two pump ESCs and two regulators, which takes $30 off the kit. Each button opens that component in the store.
Gun boards, solenoids, tanks and pumps are not part of the combo.