It steamed to the coast of Norway to draw out the German battleship Tirpitz and also served as a decoy to make the Germans think that a looming attack was coming from the North Atlantic.

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 ...

The Tirpitz was the Third Reichs ultimate weapon Sister ship to the Bismarck she was the most successful German battleship of WWII She alone had the power to destroy an entire convoy and from ...