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They nuzzled past more torpedo nets, pressed to within 200 yards of their quarry, the proud 45,000-odd-ton German super-battleship Tirpitz...
...Very Nice Bang." I went back to my old submarine, the Ursula, in 1942 but this time as captain. Our first patrol was to cover one of the convoys to Russia. It was badly beaten up. The submarines were along to cover in case the Tirpitz and the Scheer came out. They did. A friend of mine in another submarine made a radio signal to say they were out, but those two great disappearers went right back in and we didn't see them again...
...other major German warships, the 41,000-ton battleship Tirpitz (sister of the lost Bismarck) is still out of action from torpedo hits by British midget subs. The Scharnhorst's sister, Gneisenau; the so-called "pocket battleship" Admiral Scheer; the heavy cruisers Prinz Eugen and Admiral Hipper-all these have been damaged repeatedly by bombs and torpedoes, are of dubious fighting value. The pocket battleship Lutzow was torpedoed in 1941, but may be fit for service again. Despite the catchy description, she is no battleship, but an armored cruiser of around 12,000 tons. For the rest, aside from...
...Sept. 22 British midget submarines in Norway's Alten Fjord rammed some torpedoes into Germany's greatest battleship, the 40,000-ton Tirpitz, left her floating in her own oil and out of commission for many months...
...disabling of the Tirpitz marked the end of the German Fleet as an offensive threat. Since the outbreak of the war the German Fleet has been whittled from 18 major warships to a fighting six. They are: the pocket battleship Lutzow, the 26,000-ton battleship Scharnhorst, the never-in-action aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin, the three light cruisers Nurnberg, Leipzig and Emden...