The German battleship Bismarck of the German Kriegsmarine during early World War II The ship was laid down at the Blohm Voss shipyard in Hamburg in July and launched nearly three years later in April Work was completed in August when she was commissioned into the German fleet Along with her sister Tirpitz Bismarck was the largest battleship ever built by Germany and the heaviest built by any European power She was sunk by the Royal Navy in May in the North Atlantic There are crew visible on deck Source of image KGB archive Ukraine Stampted with a Russian stamp and cancelled