Here is an excerpt from the book Encyclopedia of the Second World War by Wheal, Pope & Taylor.
"...During the night the Bismarck was harried by destroyers and the next morning she found herself surrounded by heavy warships. At 8:47 a.m. the battleships King George V and Rodney, both recalled from Atlantic convoy duty, opened fire from 16,000 yards. With the Norfolk they silenced the Bismarck's own guns and reduced her to a blazing wreck within an hour and a half. The cruiser Devonshire was then called in to finish the job with torpedoes, and the Bismarck rolled over and sank at 10:36 a.m., killing all but 110 of her crew. German sources have maintained that her hull was still intact and that she was scuttled. The balance of evidence is against this theory, but in any case the Bismarck was beyond salvation some time before she went down"
The 'Encyclopedia Britannica' and 'Collier's Encyclopedia' tell much the same story as Dogspit's above. However, both claim the coup de grâce torpedoes were fired by HMS Dorsetshire.
Arrrrgh..quite right Ian, I went back and checked and apparently must have gotten in a bit of a hurry, it was indeed the heavy cruiser HMS Dorsetshire !
