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Events on Tuesday 27 May 1941 1
1941Sinking of the BismarckRoyal Navy sinks Germany's largest battleshipThree days after the Bismarck sank HMS Hood in the Battle of the Denmark Strait, British forces hunted her down in the North Atlantic. Crippled by a torpedo hit to her rudder, she was sunk on 27 May with the loss of more than 2,000 men.