Sink the Bismarck!

An Admiralty operations director coordinates the Royal Navy's desperate hunt for the German battleship Bismarck after it sinks HMS Hood. The film follows the fleet-wide chase across the North Atlantic to the ship's final destruction.

The Bismarck sank HMS Hood on 24 May 1941, prompting a massive Royal Navy manhunt. Crippled by torpedo bombers from HMS Ark Royal, Bismarck was sunk on 27 May 1941 with the loss of over 2,000 German sailors.

The film is broadly accurate on the operational chase, drawing on C.S. Forester's account, though it dramatizes command-room tension for pacing.

Directed by Lewis Gilbert

Cast: Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Carl Möhner, Laurence Naismith

Positioned at 18–27 May 1941 within the Battle of the Atlantic phase of the war, as part of the Hunt for the Bismarck. This is entry 39 of 150 in the chronological archive.

• Bismarck
• Royal Navy
• Hood
• battleship
• Atlantic chase

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  1939–May 1941

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  The Cruel Sea

  1939–1945

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  Action in the North Atlantic

  1941–1942

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  Autumn–Winter 1941

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  Mediterraneo

  1941–September 1943

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  The Desert Rats

  April–December 1941