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Chronicles the breakout of the Bismarck during the early days of World War II. Seen from the point of view of the many Naval vessels on both sides and from the central headquarters of the British where the search for the super battleship was controlled.
In 1941, Captain Jonathan Shepard (Kenneth More) takes over as Director of Operations at Naval Headquarters in London just as they receive reports that the Bismarck, the pride of the German Navy, is going out to sea in the North Atlantic. Shepard argues in favor of moving as many ships as possible to the area to find her. In their first encounter with the Bismarck, the Royal Navy loses H.M.S. Hood, the largest ship in the fleet, while H.M.S. Prince of Wales is severely damaged. Shepard then transfers ships from the Mediterranean fleet to go after the Bismarck. They include the aircraft carrier Ark Royal on which his son Tom (John Stride) is serving as an aircraft gunner. Damaged in a second encounter, the Bismarck heads for Brest on the French coast and the safety of German coastal defenses and air cover. The only ship in range is the Ark Royal, but in their first air sortie, they inadvertently attack H.M.S. Sheffield when they mistake it for the Bismarck. In the second air sortie, they damage the Bismarck sufficiently to allow the surface fleet to catch up to her and sink her.
Kenneth More
Captain Jonathan Shepard
Dana Wynter
Second Officer Anne Davis
Carl Möhner
Kapitän Ernst Lindemann
Laurence Naismith
First Sea Lord - Sir Dudley Pound - Admiral of the Fleet
Geoffrey Keen
Assistant Chief of Naval Staff
Karel Stepanek
Admiral Günther Lutjens
Michael Hordern
Admiral Jack Tovey - Commander in Chief - HMS King George V
Maurice Denham
Commander Richards
Michael Goodliffe
Captain Banister
Esmond Knight
Captain John Leech - HMS Prince of Wales
Jack Watling
Signals Officer
Jack Gwillim
Commodore Wilfrid Patterson - HMS King George V
Mark Dignam
Captain Loben Mound - HMS Ark Royal
Ernest Clark
Captain Robert Ellis - HMS Suffolk
John Horsley
Captain Charles Larcom - HMS Sheffield
Peter Burton
Captain - HMS Solent - First Destroyer
Sydney Tafler
Henry - First Workman
John Stuart
Captain Ralph Kerr - HMS Hood
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