In 1939, the warship Bismarck is built to attack American cargo ships in order to weaken Great Britain. However, the British navy plans to prevent this, leading to one of the largest naval battles ...

making them by far the largest warships ever built by Germany. Despite its size, twelve Wagner steam boilers made it capable ...

Hood was a battlecruiser - one of a new breed of warships developed before the First World War ... needed to be spared for a full refit. Bismarck, in contrast, was a much more modern ship.