List of ships with the name Bismarck

Bismarck has been used several times as a name or part of the name of ships. The name comes from a German noble family that has been documented since the 13th century. The ships were mostly named after its most famous representative, the Prussian Prime Minister and Chancellor Otto von Bismarck . The Bismarck Sea is named after the battle in the Bismarcksee , but the Bismarcksee is named after Otto von Bismarck.

Ship list

designation	Ship type	Class / type	Construction year	Shipyard	Owner	period of service	Whereabouts	image
Bismarck	Barque		1866	Martin Willers, Lienen			Sunk in 1874
Count Bismarck	Bark, whaler		1867	Knickmann brothers, Bremen Woltmershausen	H. Hackfeld & Co., Honolulu	1867-1901	Renamed Mercator in 1899, stranded in Denmark in 1901
Bismarck	Covered corvette	Bismarck class	1877	Norddeutsche Schiffbau AG , Gaarden	Imperial Navy	1878 to 1888	Wrecked in 1920
Prince Bismarck	Barque		1877	AG Weser , Bremen	Schrader & Gardener	1877 to 1912	Sold in 1912, sunk by submarine in 1917
Bismarck	Freight and passenger paddle steamer		1883	Berninghaus shipyard	DGNM		Wrecked in 1951
Bismarck	Wooden steam tug		1888	Neafie & Levy , Philadelphia	Cahill Towing Line, New York	1888 to?
Bismarck	Cargo steamer		1890	Reiherstieg shipyard, Hamburg	P. Mestermann, Rostock	1890 to 1933	sold, renamed nymph
Prince Bismarck	Passenger ship		1891	AG Vulcan , Szczecin	HAPAG	1891 to 1905	Taken over by the Russian Navy in 1905 and renamed Don , scrapped in 1923/24
Prince Bismarck	Paddle steamer		1891	Throw Blasewitz , Blasewitz	Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company	1891 to 1919	Renamed Herrnskretschen in 1919 , scrapped in 1967
Prince Bismarck	Big cruiser		1897	Imperial shipyard , Kiel	Imperial Navy	1900 to 1918	Wrecked in 1920
Prince O. Bismarck	Passenger ship; in the First World War: also tugs	Steamship	1904	Oderwerke, Stettin, construction number 543	1945 sunk, lifted, Stern- und Kreisschifffahrsgesellschaft (Berlin; until 1948); VEB Fahrtschiffahrtsgesellschaft (Berlin-East; from 1952: DSU ), shipyard in Plaue / Havel 1947 Neptun ; Overhaul 1951 MS Friedenswacht (still 1972, White Fleet); Extension and motorization 1959/60 Elbe shipyard in Aken; (1987+); (Dorotheenstadt? (When?)); 1999: MS Heiterkeit, Lindner & Taubert GbR, Berlin	1904-1945, 1947-1987 +; lying: <1999 – today (as of 2020)	1999 studio or agency ship, lies in Berlin
Prince Bismarck	Passenger ship		1905	Fairfield Shipbuilders , Govan	HAPAG	1905 to 1914	Renamed Friedrichsruh in 1914 , scrapped in 1935
Bismarck	Outpost boat		1914		Imperial Navy	1914 to 1917	Sunk in 1917
Bismarck	Steam logger		1917	Shipbuilding company "Unterweser", Lehe	German steam fishing company "Nordsee", Nordenham	1917 to?
Bismarck	Passenger ship	Imperator- class	1922	Blohm & Voss , Hamburg	HAPAG		British spoils of war, scrapped as the Majestic on the White Star Line , 1940
Bismarck	Battleship	Bismarck class	1939	Blohm & Voss, Hamburg	Navy	1940 to 1941	Sunk in 1941
Bismarck Sea	Escort aircraft carrier	Casablanca class	1944	Kaiser Shipbuilding , Vancouver	United States Navy	1944 to 1945	Sunk in 1945
Bismarck Sea	tractor		1976	Main Iron Works, Houma	K-Sea Transportation Partners, New Brunswick	since 2005	in motion
Bismarck wind	Product tanker		1982	Hayashikane Shipbuilding & Engineering, Shimonoseki	NT Management, Piraeus	2005 to 2007	scrapped from March 8, 2007

See also

• Bismarck (disambiguation)

Web links

Commons : Ships named Bismarck  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

• Peter-Michael Pawlik:. Volume 3. HMHauschild Verlag, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89757-332-1 , pp. 63-65.

Footnotes

1. ^ Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1925-26, Lloyd's Register, London, 1925
2. ^ Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1928-29, Lloyd's Register, London, 1928
3. ↑ Uwe Gerber, 2005–2017: http://www.berliner-dampfer.de/html/heiterkeit_1904.html , Julia Friese July 25, 2013: https://www.morgenpost.de/bezirke/treptow-koepenick/article118369142/ Singen-auf-der-Spree-Das-Tonstudio-im-Treptower-Hafen.html
4. ^ Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1925-26, Lloyd's Register, London, 1925
5. ^ Equasis
6. ^ Equasis