 Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Chinangwa cheOperation RheinübungRhine Exercise yaive ye Bismarck, pasi pekutungamira kwa Kapitän zur See Ernst Lindemann, uye cruiser inorema Prinz Eugen, pasi pekutungamira kwa Kapitän zur See Helmuth Brinkmann, kuti vapinde muAtlantic uye varwise Allied shipping. Großadmiral Erich Raeders orders to the Chief-of-Fleet Admiral Günther Lütjens were that the objective of the Bismarck is not to defeat enemies of equal strength, but to tie them down in a delaying action, while preserving the combat capacity as much as possible, so as to allow Prinz Eugen to get at the merchant ships in the convoy and The primary target in this operation is the enemys merchant shipping; enemy warships will be engaged only when that objective makes it necessary and it can be done without excessive risk. 