The Tirpitz was named for Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, the architect of the Kaiserliche Marine, or Imperial Navy. Laid down at the Kriegsmarinewerft in Wilhelmshaven, the Tirpitz was constructed ...

Nazi Germany's two Bismarck-class battleships were the most imposing it built during World War II. The threat they posed to convoys and warships made them a special target for the Allies. British ...

The Tirpitz was the follow-on sistership of the notorious Bismarck, a monster battleship designed from the get-go to vastly exceed the tonnage-limitations stipulated by the Washington Naval treaty ...

Shortly after 1:00 a.m. on March 28, 1942, a destroyer flying the German flag and 18 smaller boats entered the Loire River estuary and headed for the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire on France's ...

Sunday marks the 65th anniversary of the midget submarine raid on the Tirpitz, one of the most courageous acts of the Second World War. James Delingpole meets surviving hero Commander John Lorimer.

The Tirpitz was the pride of the Nazi navy, the Kriegsmarine. Bigger and younger than her famous sister battleship Bismarck, but built along the same sleek lines and armed with the same formidable ...

The German battleship Tirpitz was a constant threat to Allied merchant ships from 1942. On November 12, 1944, the ship was sunk off the coast of Tromsø, where it had been lying damaged since being ...

The last of the RAF heroes who sank Adolf Hitler’s fearsome warship, the Tirpitz, has died at the age of 100. Sydney Grimes was a wireless operator on a Lancaster bomber on the final two of the three ...

Early in World War II, Nazi Germany used its navy to isolate Britain from resupply by sea. Germany capital ships, like the battleship Bismarck, were an important part of that strategy. But it was ...