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Then a Soviet submarine commander. Captain Nicolai Lunin, told of sighting the 35,000-ton battleship Tirpitz rounding North Cape, protected by three cruisers (possibly the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper and pocket battleships Admiral Scheer and Liitzow) and eight destroyers. Lunin maneuvered daringly through the screening vessels, sent two torpedoes crashing into the mighty Tirpitz. Immediately the lesser ships drew close about the wounded one. All slowly turned back toward Norway and later were sighted hugging the shore, still plowing toward their anchorage in Trondheim Fjord...
Soviet dispatches hailed Lunin as a hero who had saved a valuable convoy, declared it would take several months to repair the Tirpitz. That was patently guesswork, because the Tirpitz, when last seen, was proceeding under her own steam. When hit, such warships can often close bulkheads and keep going. Her sister ship Bismarck sustained enormously greater damage before going down...
...been blasted by British bombers. Half a mile outside Trondheim, transatlantic U-boats crouch in shelters dug out of hill sides which are as prone to slide as the hills of Panama. A few miles farther on is Asen fjord, where the really big ships hide: the mighty Tirpitz, the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, and the damaged heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper. According to Stockholm reports, the Germans are preparing a full-fledged naval base there, building a drydock big enough to take in 40,000-ton battleships...
Churchill said fortnight ago that every convoy carrying U.S.-British supplies to Russia had got through. It may be that German Grand Admiral Erich Raeder will take over where U-boats and the Luftwaffe have not brilliantly succeeded, will order the Tirpitz and other warships out from Trondheim to pulverize convoys. If he does, say the British, the fight will be terrific...
...Germany is known to have three battleships, possibly a fourth, and two pocket battleships in commission. This week London announced whereabouts of four Nazi capital ships: at Trondheim, Norway, the 35,000-ton Tirpitz and pocket battleship Admiral Scheer; at Kiel the Scharnhorst, at Gdynia the Gneisenau, both out of action for repairs. Unaccounted for by the British is the 10,000-ton Lutzow, possibly Russia's Baltic victim. Or the Russians hit and misidentified one of the ex-battleships, now training ships Schleswig-Holstein and Schlesien...