The Tirpitz was named for Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, the architect of the Kaiserliche Marine, or Imperial Navy. Laid down at the Kriegsmarinewerft in Wilhelmshaven, the Tirpitz was ...

Germany’s Tirpitz was the heaviest battleship ever built in Europe, and its presence in Norwegian waters threatened Allied supply lines to the USSR. This film traces the Allied response—one of ...

Key Point: The Tirpitz may have been an inglorious kind of success for having forced the Allies to divert such disproportionate resources to contain and eventually destroy her. At 3 AM on the ...

A war hero who was the last survivor of a courageous attack against the German battleship Tirpitz, died on Sunday following a short illness. Commander John Lorimer, 97, was captured by the Nazis ...

In September 1943, a daring midget submarine attack by Royal Navy volunteers succeeded in crippling the mighty German battleship, Tirpitz. Dr Eric Grove examines the mission, including evidence ...

The populace turned against him when it was seen that the new German navy had only served to drive England into the arms of France, her traditional foe; and when it was realized that von Tirpitz ...

But “Tirpitz’s Trap” serves as a warning of the consequences of challenging a maritime rival at sea while retaining the commitments inherent in a continental state with strategically significant land ...

On one occasion in 1944, the German Battleship Tirpitz, the sister ship to the Bismarck, was hit by such a bomb and sank. What sets apart a bunker buster from a regular aircraft-dropped bomb?

Saturday’s tragic ship crash into the Brooklyn Bridge is far from the first time a boat has collided with the iconic East River crossing since it opened May 24, 1883.