What was the name of the three german battleships sunk during ww2?

I'm sorry but their is only TWO true battleships





Bismark and Tirpitz





Scharnhorst %26amp; her sister ship Gneisnau are Battle cruisers





Deutschland (later called Lutzow), Admiral Scheer and Graf Spee are Called armored Ships or "Pocket Battleships"





Bismark was sunk on the 26 of May 1941


by King George the 5th, Rodney, and other smaller craft.





Tirpitz sank the 15 of September 1944 after two strikes by the RAF Landcaster bomber carrying 12,000 lbs Tall Boy bombs.

What was the name of the three german battleships sunk during ww2?
You are probably thinking about Bismarck, Tirpitz and Scharnhorst. Many put the Scharnhorst as a battlecruiser, yet it had more than adaquate armour, but a weak main gun. Plans to upgrade the 11" guns to 15" were overtaken by the war.
Reply:Bismarck, Admiral Graf Spee, Tirpitz.





These are thee I know of.
Reply:First you need to define what is a battleship. Only two ships were "Battleships" according to both sides (Germany and allies)


Some others were called "Pocket Battleships" by the British Royal Navy. This term was applied to ships the German Navy called Heavy Cruisers and to others the Germans called Battleships.





So lets assume that the term Battleship applies to all Pocket Battleships as well.





Bismark (BB) Sunk by combined attack by swordfish aircraft





Tirpitz (BB) Capsized by enemy action on 12 November 1944





Sharnhorst (BBE) Sunk in the Battle of North Cape on 26 December 1943





Gneisenau (BBE) Sunk as blockship in Gotenhafen on March 23, 1945





Admiral Graf Spee (BBE) Sunk in the Battle of the River Plate





Admiral Sheer (BBE) Sunk by bombs 9 April鈥?0 April 1945





Schleswig-Holstein (BBE) struck by three bombs dropped by British planes, caught fire and sank in 39 feet of water





If you include thew Pocket Battleships (BBE) then 7, not 3 were sunk during WW2





If you omit the Pocket Battleships then only 2 True Battleships (BB) were sunk, not 3.





What defines a Warship to a certain type is not so black and white as many civilians think. What makes a Ship a BB rathers than a CA (Battleship vs Cruiser) or a CA vs a CL (Heavy vs light Cruiser)





or what defines a ship as a Frigate vs a Corvette (FF vs FFL) is not so easy to determine. Throughout the years what defines a ship type has been modified and redefined dozens of times. and often there is much overlap.





My own ship from which I take my Screen name, USS Halsey CG-23, was a Guided Missile Cruiser. It did not start out that way however. When first commissioned it was called a DLG rather than a CG. A Destroyer Leader (Guided Missile). The whole Leahy Class was redefined in the early 80's after a major refit.
Reply:Only a German would want to know this....
Reply:Bismarck and Tirpitz are the easy ones.





I didn't know the Germans had more than two.
Reply:The Tirpitz, Bismark, and Scharnhorst were all sunk, however only the Tirpitz and Bismark were Battleships. The latter was a Battle Cruiser or "Pocket Battleship".
Reply:The Bismarck, The Graf Spee and the Tirpitz.


The Graf Spee was scuttled off shore of Montivideo in the battle of the Plate river. the captain was a true officer and gentleman. he sunk nine British merchant ships and never took a life because he took all the british seamen off the boats before sinking them.


The Bismarck was sunk in the north Atlantic three days after sinking the British Battleship HMS HOOD.


The Tirpitz came to its end when it capsized in a Norwegian harbor in 1944 where it had spent almost the entire war.


I jhope that answers your question.

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