Sink the Bismarck by Stan Stokes. AIT227 by Northern Dancer

by Northern Dancer

In August 1940

Depicting the Inniskilling Dragoons and the Scots Greys during the classic Cavalry Charge

Not far in the distance looms the USS West Virginia and Tennessee

Signed by Capt AWF Sutton DFC (deceased)

Sink the Bismarck by Stan Stokes. AIT227 by Northern DancerSTK0131. Sink the Bismarck by Stan Stokes. Commissioned on August 24, 1940, the German battleship Bismarck was the epitome of naval power. The great ship was 823 feet in length, had a beam of 118 feet, and a displacement of 50,000 tons. After nine months of sea trials the Bismarck embarked on its first mission accompanied by the cruiser Prinz Eugen on May 19, 1941. The Bismarcks mission was to destroy and disrupt convoys carrying war relief supplies