The Bismarck battleship, accompanied by a smaller cruiser, Prinz Eugen, first landed in German-occupied Norway. After refueling, they headed towards Iceland and then to open waters of the Atlantic.

It was taken as a token of victory, by my father, a sailor aboard HMS Devonshire, from the German heavy cruiser, the Prinz Eugen, following her surrender in May 1945. The Prinz Eugen was a ship of ...

The German battleship Bismarck was the pride of the ... On May 18, 1941, Bismarck and its escort, the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, embarked on Operation Rheinübung, a campaign to sink Allied ...