# Admiral Lütjens and the “Bismarck”

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 14, 2017, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admiral-lutjens-and-the-bismarck/798817 "2017-10-14T14:06:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admiral-lutjens-and-the-bismarck/798817/21 "2017-10-23T16:09:12Z")

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And the Tirpitz (Bismarck’s sister ship) directly sank even less (0 ships).

Indirectly, it caused problems with a convoy (PQ-17) that had many ships sunk just because it threatened to sail.

The all time worst Battleship cost to performance would be the Japanese battleship (Musashi). However, at least half her crew survived

> **[Japanese battleship Musashi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Musashi)**
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> Musashi (武蔵), named after the former Japanese province, was one of four planned Yamato-class battleships\[N 1\] built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), beginning in the late 1930s. The Yamato-class ships were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, displacing almost 72,000 long tons (73,000 t) fully loaded and armed with nine 460-millimetre (18.1 in) main guns. Their secondary armament consisted of four 155-millimetre (6.1 in) triple-gun turrets formerly used C...

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