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Current research on the Tirpitz salvage site, utilising remote sensing and robotics, is developing innovative methods to map and monitor the site that can be utilised globally in near-shore environments.
Battleship Tirpitz, 1941. The Battleship Tirpitz deck plans reveal the inner workings of the largest warship ever constructed by Germany. From the machinery rooms on the Stauung (hold) deck to the main artillery station on the Vormars (9th deck above main deck), you can see where the crew of a Bismarck class battleship lived and worked while ...
Historical Map of the Arctic & the Far North (25 June 1944 - Removing the German Surface Threat: By mid 1943 the Allies were successfully defeating the German U-boats in the Atlantic, leaving the Norwegian-based battleships Tirpitz and Scharnhorst as the main threat to the Arctic convoys.
A deck fire spread to the ammunition magazine for one of the main battery turrets, which caused a large explosion. Figures for the number of men killed in the attack range from 950 to 1,204. Between 1948 and 1957, the wreck was broken up by a joint Norwegian and German salvage operation.
3 Ιαν 2009 · Tirpitz. Location of the wreck of Tirpitz (68.39N - 18.49E). Website with searchable ship database about warships, passenger liners, merchant ships, photo galleries, technical details, stories, news and much more.
Operation Catechism was a British air raid of World War II that destroyed the German battleship Tirpitz.It was conducted on 12 November 1944 by 29 Royal Air Force heavy bombers that attacked the battleship at its anchorage near the Norwegian city of Tromsø.The ship capsized after being hit by at least two bombs and damaged by the explosions of others, killing between 940 and 1,204 members of ...
Setting out from Trondheim to strike at eastbound convoy PQ-12, the Tirpitz came close to being intercepted by a powerful British covering force, including the fleet carrier Victorious, which had been alerted to her sortie by Ultra intelligence.
