KMS Bismarck
**The FPS in the dock might be low, and the ship might load slowly for cpu that has worse performance than i5-7400, as a result of this ship having 8256 parts.**
Bismarck was the first of two Bismarck-class battleships built for Nazi Germany’s Kriegsmarine. Named after Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the ship was laid down at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg in July 1936 and launched in February 1939. Work was completed in August 1940, when she was commissioned into the German fleet. Bismarck and her sister ship Tirpitz were the largest battleships ever built by Germany, and two of the largest built by any European power.
lasting 8 days in May 1941, codenamed Rheinübung. The ship, along with the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, was to break into the Atlantic Ocean and raid Allied shipping from North America to Great Britain. The two ships were detected
several times off Scandinavia, and British naval units were deployed to block their route. At the Battle of the Denmark Strait, HMS Hood was destroyed by the combined fire of Bismarck and Prinz Eugen, which then damaged Prince of Wales and forced her retreat. Bismarck suffered sufficient damage from three hits to force an end to the raiding mission.
The destruction of Hood spurred a relentless pursuit by the Royal Navy involving dozens of warships. Two days later, heading for occupied France to effect repairs, Bismarck was attacked by 16 Fairey Swordfish biplane torpedo bombers from the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal; one scored a hit that rendered the battleship’s steering gear inoperable. In her final battle the following morning, the already-crippled Bismarck was engaged by two British battleships and two heavy cruisers, and sustained incapacitating damage and heavy loss of life. The ship was scuttled to prevent her being boarded by the British, and to allow the ship to be abandoned so as to limit further casualties. (Wikipedia)
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BF%BE%E6%96%AF%E9%BA%A5%E8%99%9F%E6%88%B0%E8%89%A6
This is the first ship I uploaded to the workshop, and the building process took me over 240 hours. I researched lots of blueprints and historical photographs to make my replica of the Bismarck as close as possible to its original design and appearance in history. However, historical armor protection is not replicated for various reasons.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the Bismarck and please feel free to comment and give me your advice.
