Bismarck's Flaws Exposed: Why This Legendary Battleship Wasn't as Powerful as History Suggests In the more than 80 years since she was sunk much has been written about Germany's flagship ...

To maximize damage, the raid was to include Germany's four best capital ships: battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, which were sister ships, and Bismarck and its sister ship, Tirpitz.