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Sink the Bismarck! was the inspiration for Johnny Horton's highly popular 1960 song, "Sink the Bismarck", [8] credited by Variety with boosting the film's American gross alone by an estimated half a million dollars. [9] The film had its Royal World Premiere in the presence of the Duke of Edinburgh at the Odeon Leicester Square on 11 February 1960.
"Sink the Bismark" (later "Sink the Bismarck") is a march song by American country music singer Johnny Horton and songwriter Tillman Franks, based on the pursuit and eventual sinking of the German battleship Bismarck in May 1941, during World War II. Horton released this song through Columbia Records in 1960, when it reached #3 on the charts ...
Sink the Bismarck!, a 1960 film based on C. S. Forester's book The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck "Sink the Bismarck", a 1960 song by Johnny Horton inspired by the film of the same name. Computer Bismarck, a 1980 computer game that simulates the battle. Unsinkable Sam, a ship's cat on board Bismarck who allegedly survived the sinking and was ...
The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck (Little Brown), [1] also published as Hunting the Bismark (Michael Joseph) is a 1959 novel by C.S. Forester (1899–1966), the author of the popular Horatio Hornblower series of naval-themed books. Closely based on the actual sinking of the Bismarck, the novel includes fictionalized dialogue and incidents.
Horton had two successes in 1960 with both "Sink the Bismarck" and "North to Alaska", the latter used over the opening credits to the John Wayne film of the same name. Horton died in November 1960 at the peak of his fame in a traffic collision, less than two years after his breakthrough.
In May 1941 ORP Piorun located the German battleship Bismarck, and drew its fire, while other units of the Royal Navy task force caught up to sink the Bismarck. After World War II, Piorun was returned to the Royal Navy and recommissioned as HMS Noble before being scrapped in 1955.
Vice-Admiral Günther Lütjens had successfully commanded the Operation Berlin mission before being appointed as the fleet commander for Operation Rheinübung. Operation Rheinübung (German: Unternehmen Rheinübung) was the last sortie into the Atlantic by the new German battleship Bismarck and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen on 18–27 May 1941, during World War II.
At around 10:20, running low on fuel, Tovey ordered the cruiser Dorsetshire to sink Bismarck with torpedoes and ordered his battleships back to port. [168] Dorsetshire fired a pair of torpedoes into Bismarck ' s starboard side, one of which hit. Dorsetshire then moved around to her port side and fired another torpedo, which also hit.