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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 83983

Bismarck
(German Battleship, 1940-41)

Fitting out at the Blohm & Voss shipyard, Hamburg, Germany, between 10 and 15 December 1939.
This view, received from the Naval Attache Office, London, in 1940, shows the ship's newly-installed "Atlantic" bow and the extent of her side armor.
Note canal boat in the foreground.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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14 December 2000