The actual ship was launched by Germany in 1939 and commissioned into the navy in 1941. The only real task for the ship was as a raider against convoys moving towards Murmansk and Arkangelsk in the USSR, but even then it only managed two missions. It spent most of its operational life essentially in hiding -- blanketed in artificial fog, or covered by a forest of trees to evade British heavy bombers! Tirpitz was eventually sunk by RAF Lancaster bombers on 12 November 1944. More than a thousand crewmen died in the explosions and capsizing.
Tirpitz, in 1:2000 scale by Heller |
Tirpitz, in 1:2000 scale by Heller |
Tirpitz, in 1:2000 scale by Heller |
Tirpitz, in 1:2000 scale by Heller |
Tirpitz, in 1:2000 scale by Heller |
Tirpitz, in 1:2000 scale by Heller |
Tirpitz, in 1:2000 scale by Heller |
Tirpitz, in 1:2000 scale by Heller |
Tirpitz, in 1:2000 scale by Heller |