| Entry Text: | Sinking of the German Battleship Bismarck on 27th May, 1941. Supplement to the London Gazette of Tuesday, 14 October 1947, Number 38098, pp.4847–4867. A despatch from Admiral Tovey, C-in-C Home Fleet. It includes a report of the actions of Force H from Admiral Somerville and an anonymous appendix on Coastal Command operations. There is a North Atlantic chart of ship movements and a track chart of the final action. Reprinted in 2014 in the compilation by Martin Mace and John Grehan, Capital Ships at War 1939-1945 (ISBN 1783462043). |
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