Tirpitz

Type:
Battleship
Class:
Builder:
Kriegsmarine Werft
Wilhelmshaven, Germany
Pennant Number:
N/A
Ordered:
June 14, 1936
Launched:
April 1, 1939
Keel Laid:
November 2, 1936
Commissioned:


February 25, 1941
Fate:
Sunk Nov. 12, 1944 by RAF Lancaster bombers of 9 Squadron and 617 Squadron.
(Operation Catechism)
Wreck scrapped between 1948-1957.

Location: Håkøya Island near Tromsø, Norway.
(63.39N - 18.49E)

971 crewmen killed, 87 survivors.


Builder's Data
Page published Jan. 3, 2009