- Author
- Naval History and Heritage Command · DANFS
- Date
- Later official history · web publication 24 August 2015
- Passage
- Opening ship particulars: eight 8-inch main guns
What has been checked
Indexed ship particulars read on 18 October 2026; no original armament return inspected.
How to read it
The record concerns the ship later designated IX-300. Its displacement, speed, crew and antiaircraft particulars are not adopted as a dated May 1941 fit. Its compressed claim that British aircraft sank Bismarck is not adopted; the final action requires the separate contemporary reports.
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