USN battleships were named after US states; such as the USS Arizona, USS California, USS Nevada, USS New York, USS Texas, USS Tennessee, USS Oklahoma, USS Alabama, USS South Dakota, USS Washington, USS Mississippi, USS West Virginia, USS Utah, etc.
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The Battleship USS Missouri September 2nd 1945 Tokyo Bay.
The Surrender Documents were created in Potsdam, Germany on July 11, 1945, and were signed by all the Allied and Axis powers but Japan. The war was officially ended on August 15, 1945, when Japan signed the Documents aboard the American Battleship, the USS Missouri.
The Bismark was a German battleship.
The conclusion of World War II took place on the Battleship Missouri in Tokyo Harbor on September 2, 1945. General Douglas MacArthur oversaw the ceremony formally ending the most destructive war in history.
The Bismarck was a 2nd World War Battleship not a First World War battleship. You are getting the ship confused with the man: "Otto von Bismarck" after whom the battleship was named. Bismarck was the Minister President of the Kingdom of Prussia, who then became the First Chancellor of the German Empire. To answer your question here's a map of where the Bismarck was sunk. http://www.warcovers.dk/greenland/bismarck_map.jpg