
#REDIRECT German battleship Tirpitz
{| border="1" align="right" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width=300 |- |colspan="2" align="center"| |- !align ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background-color: navy;"|Career !align ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background-color: navy;"| |- |Ordered: |1935 |- |Laid down: |2 November 1936 |- |Launched: |1 April 1939 |- |Commissioned: |25 February 1941 |- |Fate: |Sunk on 12 November 1944 |- !colspan=2 style="color: white; background-color: navy"|General Characteristics |- |Displacement: |41,700t standard; 52,600t full load |- |Dimensions: |251m x 36m x 8.7m |- |Armament: |Eight 15 in (380 mm) (4×2)
Twelve 5.9 in (150 mm) (6×2)
Sixteen 4.1 in (105 mm)
Sixteen 37 mm (8×2)
Twelve 20 mm cannon, later fifty-eight Eight 503 mm torpedo tubes |- |Aircraft: |4, with 2 catapults |- |Propulsion: |150,000hp (110 MW) = 30.8 kts (54 km/h) |- |Crew: |2,608 |} ''Tirpitz'' was a battleship of the German Kriegsmarine, a sister ship to the German battleship German battleship Bismarck, and named for Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz. She was launched 1 April 1939, after ''Bismarck'', but was deployed in a similar manner, being sent against Allied merchant shipping in the North Atlantic. As a result of the Arctic convoys and the British_Commandos#Return_to_Norway ''Tirpitz'' was sent to Norway waters where she spent most of World War II in the fjords. She made three offensive sorties; an attempt to interdict convoy PQ12 in March 1942 (Operation Sportpalast), a similar attempt against Convoy PQ-17 in July 1942 (Operation Rösselsprung) and a raid on Spitsbergen in September 1943 (Operation Cicilien). The threat that she might put to sea, tied down Royal Navy resources and the decision was taken to sink her while she was in port. The first attempt was a very risky operation. British X class submarine midget submarines planted explosive charges beneath ''Tirpitz'' in September 1943. This succeeded in disabling ''Tirpitz''. After she was repaired she was attacked by carrier born aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm, which only did superficial damage. She was finally sunk immediately to the west of Tromsø, in the bay of Håkøybotn, on 12 November 1944 by Avro Lancasters of Royal Air Force No. 617 Squadron RAF and No. 9 Squadron RAF Squadrons equipped with the Barnes Wallis tallboy bombs on their third attempt, the first of which had been launched from Russia. Close to 1000 German sailors died. [[Image:BBtirpitz2.jpg|thumb|left|Tirpitz underway for her trials in 1941]] Postwar, the wreck was sold off and broken up in situ by a Norwegian company. Nearly the entire ship was cut up and hauled away, however a large portion of the bow remains where it sank in 1944. Also nearby are artificial lakes around the shore, caused by Tallboy bombs that missed their target. ==External link== * [http://www.bismarck-class.dk/ Battleship Tirpitz] Bismarck class battleships Battleships
On July 5th, 1942 the Russian submarine K-21 located the German escort of Operation Rösselsprung and claimed to have hit Tirpitz with two torpesdoes. However, the ship's war logs report no such incident, and she reportedly wasn't damaged. One Russian theory dictates that the Tirpitz was indeed damaged, but was quietly brought in to berth and repared to avoid the Führer's wrath. This seems somewhat far-fetched, however.
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#REDIRECT German battleship Tirpitz
German battleship Tirpitz
{| border="1" align="right" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width=300 |- |colspan="2" align="center"| |- !align ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background-color: navy;"|Career !align ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background-color: navy;"| |- |Ordered: |1935 |- |Laid down: |2 November 1936 |- |Launched: |1 April 1939 |- |Commissioned: |25 February 1941 |- |Fate: |Sunk on 12 November 1944 |- !colspan=2 style="color: white; background-color: navy"|General Characteristics |- |Displacement: |41,700t standard; 52,600t full load |- |Dimensions: |251m x 36m x 8.7m |- |Armament: |Eight 15 in (380 mm) (4×2)
Twelve 5.9 in (150 mm) (6×2)
Sixteen 4.1 in (105 mm)
Sixteen 37 mm (8×2)
Twelve 20 mm cannon, later fifty-eight Eight 503 mm torpedo tubes |- |Aircraft: |4, with 2 catapults |- |Propulsion: |150,000hp (110 MW) = 30.8 kts (54 km/h) |- |Crew: |2,608 |} ''Tirpitz'' was a battleship of the German Kriegsmarine, a sister ship to the German battleship German battleship Bismarck, and named for Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz. She was launched 1 April 1939, after ''Bismarck'', but was deployed in a similar manner, being sent against Allied merchant shipping in the North Atlantic. As a result of the Arctic convoys and the British_Commandos#Return_to_Norway ''Tirpitz'' was sent to Norway waters where she spent most of World War II in the fjords. She made three offensive sorties; an attempt to interdict convoy PQ12 in March 1942 (Operation Sportpalast), a similar attempt against Convoy PQ-17 in July 1942 (Operation Rösselsprung) and a raid on Spitsbergen in September 1943 (Operation Cicilien). The threat that she might put to sea, tied down Royal Navy resources and the decision was taken to sink her while she was in port. The first attempt was a very risky operation. British X class submarine midget submarines planted explosive charges beneath ''Tirpitz'' in September 1943. This succeeded in disabling ''Tirpitz''. After she was repaired she was attacked by carrier born aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm, which only did superficial damage. She was finally sunk immediately to the west of Tromsø, in the bay of Håkøybotn, on 12 November 1944 by Avro Lancasters of Royal Air Force No. 617 Squadron RAF and No. 9 Squadron RAF Squadrons equipped with the Barnes Wallis tallboy bombs on their third attempt, the first of which had been launched from Russia. Close to 1000 German sailors died. [[Image:BBtirpitz2.jpg|thumb|left|Tirpitz underway for her trials in 1941]] Postwar, the wreck was sold off and broken up in situ by a Norwegian company. Nearly the entire ship was cut up and hauled away, however a large portion of the bow remains where it sank in 1944. Also nearby are artificial lakes around the shore, caused by Tallboy bombs that missed their target. ==External link== * [http://www.bismarck-class.dk/ Battleship Tirpitz] Bismarck class battleships Battleships
German battleship Tirpitz
On July 5th, 1942 the Russian submarine K-21 located the German escort of Operation Rösselsprung and claimed to have hit Tirpitz with two torpesdoes. However, the ship's war logs report no such incident, and she reportedly wasn't damaged. One Russian theory dictates that the Tirpitz was indeed damaged, but was quietly brought in to berth and repared to avoid the Führer's wrath. This seems somewhat far-fetched, however.
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