The Nation - News from June 13, 1989

An explorer who found the luxury liner Titanic in 1985 has located the German World War II battleship Bismarck, which was sunk 47 years ago after a six-day chase in the North Atlantic, officials said. The Bismarck, sunk May 27, 1941, by Britain’s navy, had a crew of about 2,200. Only 115 survived. Dr. Robert Ballard of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod said the Bismarck was located beneath 15,000 feet of water about 600 miles west of the Brittany coast city of Brest, France. “It is sitting upright on the sea bed intact in an excellent state of preservation,” the institution said. “There is no evidence of human remains. No objects were touched or recovered.”