Indeed, by this time, the Tirpitz had her giant 380-millimeter guns and faster-firing 15-centimeter guns modified to serve as long-range air-defense artillery. The Royal Navy doubled down with ...

Their target was the gigantic German battleship Tirpitz, a vessel so menacing that for three years the air force and navies of the United Kingdom and Soviet Union had launched at least twenty-five ...

It took three years and multiple operations, but in 1944 30 RAF Lancaster bombers armed with Tallboy earthquake bombs finally sunk the Tirpitz. The ship took two bombs, suffered internal ...

British warships and bombers hunted the ships, Bismarck and Tirpitz, across the North Atlantic. Early on November 12, 1944, 29 Lancaster bombers of the British Royal Air Force took off from their ...

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 ...

Saturday’s tragic ship crash into the Brooklyn Bridge is far from the first time a boat has collided with the iconic East ...

The German battleship Tirpitz posed a serious threat to Allied ships during the Second World War. It was so dangerous to Allied forces that Winston Churchill made its destruction a priority. In ...

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 Nazis regularly used chemical fog to hide its Tirpitz battleship in the Norwegian fjords during World War II. Imperial War Museum/Wikimedia Commons Germany's World War II battleship the ...