Will Berthold talks about the battle between the German battleship Bismarck and the British Navy. The English Admiralty mobilized all forces to intercept the German battleship, and at the cost of their own losses, after a long pursuit, the powerful warship was destroyed. The author gives detailed technical characteristics of the Bismarck and its weapons, tells what course the ship followed, how the enemy managed to detect it, what decisions the headquarters command made and how the duties of ordinary crew members were distributed.