Victory at Sea Tirpitz

Victory at Sea: Tirpitz

The sister ship of the Bismarck, the Tirpitz, was 2,000 tons heavier, making it the heaviest battleship ever built by a European navy. She served in Norway and the Baltic Fleet, acting as an effective deterrent. The Tirpitz became an obsession for the British. After the sinking of the Bismarck, the Tirpitz, as Germany's most powerful warship, was destined to spend much of the war in port.

After the daring British raid on St. Nazaire, it was deemed infeasible to deploy the Tirpitz against Allied Atlantic convoys. Instead, she was used sparingly, as a deterrent against Allied invasion of Norway and to intercept Allied convoys to the Soviet Union. In September 1943, along with the battleship Scharnhorst, she shelled Allied positions on Spitsbergen. This was the only time the mighty battleship fired her main battery in anger.

The relentless British attacks would prove to be the undoing of the mighty ship. They launched many attacks on the ship, from midget submarines and two large-scale air raids. She was finally sunk in 1944 by Lancaster bombers armed with 12,000lb Tallboy bombs.

1 metal and Warlord Resin model.
Models supplied unassembled and unpainted.