What the records say
- When
- 24 May 1941
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 67.77° N, 31.00° W
- Description
- 1941 naval battle between ships of the Royal Navy and the German Kriegsmarine
- Naval
- yes
- War
- World War II
Battle of the Denmark Strait
Naval battle during the Second World War
The Battle of the Denmark Strait was a naval engagement in the Second World War, which took place on 24 May 1941 between ships of the Royal Navy and the Kriegsmarine. The British battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battlecruiser HMS Hood fought the German battleship Bismarck and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, which were attempting to break out into the North Atlantic to attack Allied merchant shipping through the…
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- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “bataille du détroit de Danemark”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “В Датском проливе произошёл бой между немецкими и британскими военными кораблями”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page