| Tethered to it are two midget submarines said to be the same class of craft as those that attacked the Tirpitz. |
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| Historians and television crews have returned to the Arctic Circle in the latest attempt to find a British midget submarine lost in an attack on the Tirpitz 60 years ago. |
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| Halifax W7656 crash-landed in a Norwegian fjord under heavy flak on a mission to sink the Tirpitz. |
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| What if he operated within a national tradition formulated by Tirpitz, Hindenburg, and even Bismarck? |
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| In 1943, the German battleship Tirpitz and an escort flotilla shelled and destroyed the Allied weather station in Operation Zitronella. |
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| In the modern age, the Imperial German Navy assembled by Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz is the classic example. |
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| Tirpitz advocated the cause of an expanded navy necessary for Germany to defend her territories abroad. |
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| In 1911 experiments took place with Albatros seaplanes and in 1912 Tirpitz authorized 200,000 marks for seaplane trials. |
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| Admiral Alfred Tirpitz had also often visited Portsmouth as a naval cadet and admired and envied the Royal Navy. |
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| Admiral Tirpitz, responsible for the German fleet, favoured ship survivability and chose to sacrifice some gun size for improved armour. |
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| At a meeting with the army, the navy proposed delay until May 1941, when the new battleships Bismarck and Tirpitz would be ready. |
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| Hitler ordered that the battleship Tirpitz, already in Norway, was to be moved south to Trondheim. |
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| The bill contained a restriction, that building would fall to two ships per year in 1912, but Tirpitz was confident of changing this at a later date. |
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| He won the Distinguished Flying Medal after shooting down five German fighters over Norway and took part in the attack which sank the huge battleship Tirpitz. |
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| We paddle past the eerie spot where, in November 1944, the Tirpitz, feared sister-ship to the Bismarck, was sunk with the loss of almost 1,000 lives. |
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| Lossiemouth was used during 1942 as a base to launch several unsuccessful missions to sink the German battleship Tirpitz, which at the time was operating in Norwegian fjords. |
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| Finally in 1911, trials with aircraft began and in 1912 Tirpitz agreed to purchase the first airship for naval reconnaissance at a cost of 850,000 marks. |
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| Tirpitz started with a publicity campaign aimed at popularising the navy. |
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| Reforms in training and gunnery were introduced to make good perceived deficiencies, which in part Tirpitz had counted upon to provide his ships with a margin of superiority. |
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