Grammar2: Verb tense and parts of speech practice
Posted by: rongeb5 in yr11 writing, tags: Add new tag
A) [battle of the Bismarck]
The German battleship Bismarck is/are one of a/the most famous warships/warship of the Second World War. The lead ship of her class and named/naming after the 19th century German chancellor Otto von Bismarck, Bismarck displaced/displacement more than/then 50,000 tons fully loaded/loading and is/was the largest warship then commissioned/commissioning. Her chief claim to fame came/coming from the Battle of the Denmark Strait in May 1941 _during__ which the battlecruiser HMS Hood, flagship of the Home Fleet and proud/pride of a/the Royal Navy, is/was sunk within/during several minutes. In response, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued the order to “Sink the Bismarck”,[2] spurring a relentful/relentless pursuit by the Royal Navy. Two days later, within/with safer waters almost in/of reach, Fleet Air Arm aircraft torpedoed/torpedoing Bismarck and jammed her rudder, allowing/allowed heavy British units to catch up with her. In the ensuing battle on the morning of 27 May 1941, Bismarck took heavy punishment/punitive for nearly three hours before sinking.
B) [How the ship came to be]
Design of the ship started in the early 1930s, following on from Germany’s development/developed of the Deutschland class cruisers and the Scharnhorst class “battlecruisers”. Construction/constructive of/from the second French Dunkerque class battleship made undesignation/redesign necessary, and Bismarck’s displacement was/is increased to 41,700 tons. Officially, however, her tonnage got/was 35,000 tons to suggest parity with ships built within the limits of the Anglo-German Naval Agreed/Agreement (1935) that allowed/allotted Germany to built/build up to/too five 35,000-ton battleships, the maximum displacement agreed by/of the major powers in the Washington Naval Treaty of/in 1922. Fully laden, Bismarck and her sister-ship Tirpitz would each displace more then/more than 50,000 tons. The prototype of/from the proposed battleships envisaged under Plan Z, Bismarck’s keel was/got laid down at/to the Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg on 1 July 1936. She was/gets launched on 14 February 1939 and commissioned/commissioner on/to 24 August 1940 with Kapitän zur See Ernst Lindemann in/of command.
C) [The Strength of the Bismarck]
That/This formidable ship, the/a largest warship then commissioned, was intended primer/primarily as a commerce raider, having a broad beam for stability in the rough seas of the North Atlantic and fuel stores as large as those of battleships intended for operations in the Pacific Ocean. Still, with eight 15 inch main guns in four turrets, substantial welded-armour protection and designed for a top speed of not less/no less than 29 knots (she actually/suddenly achieved 30.1 knots (55.7 km/h) in trials in/with the calmer waters of the Baltic, a significant advantage over any/all comparable British battleship), Bismarck was/had capable/capability of engaging any enemy battleship on reasonably equal terms. Her range of weaponry/weapon could easily decimate any convoy she encountered/encountering. The plan was for Bismarck to break out into the spacious waters of the North Atlantic, where she could refuel from German tankers and remain undetected/detected by British and American aircraft, submarines and ships, while/that attacking the/this convoys.
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