TIRPITZ (April 1, 1939)
DEUTCHLAND (laid down 1938)
FRIEDRICH DER GROSSE or HINDENBURG (laid down 1939)
Complement: 1500
Length: (w.l.) 791 feet
Beam: 118 feet
Draught: (mean) 28 feet.
Guns:
8 - 15 inch
12 - 5.9 inch
16 - 4.1 inch
16 - 37mm 83 cal
12 - 20mm 65 cal (30 installed on Tirpitz 1942)
final fit on Tirpitz 16 quad 20mm L 38 Vierlige
16 single 20mm
Torpedoes 2 x 21" quad tubes installed on Tirpitz 1942
Armour:
Side 12.59" tapered to 10.35" at bottom
Deck 1.96" upper deck
3.14" - 4.72" armor deck
Forward Transverse Bulkhead 8.7"
Turrets 14.1" faces
8" - 5" sides and roof
Barbettes 13.5" sides
Conning Tower 14.1" sides
Aircraft: 4 Arado AR 196, with 2 catapults
Machinery: Geared turbines. 2 shafts. High pressure water-tube boilers. S.H.P. 150,000. Oil fuel: 8000 tons (max.)
BISMARCK - Torpedoed by H.M.S. Dorsetshire
after being reduced to a sinking condition by gunfire of H.M.S. King George
V and Rodney,
May 27, 1941, previously been damaged by torpedoes discharger
by Naval aircraft from H.M.S. Victorious and Ark Royal.
Story : HUNT FOR
BISMARCK
TIRPITZ - Damaged by British X6 midget
submarine Sep.22, 1943 that laid limpet mines on her hull
turbines blasted off mountings,shafts and rudder disabled, repaired
Sep 1943-Mar., 1944. Damaged again by RAF Barracuda's Apr.5,
1944 being hit 15 times by bombs, damaged by one bomb from RAF
bombers Apr.1, 1944, under air attack later part of Aug. 1944,
hit by one bomb on bow Oct.14, 1944, moved to Tromso,Norway (Sande
Sound) Oct.17, 1944 (8 knots best speed). Bombed by 32 RAF Lancasters
with 13,200 LB Tallboy bombs Nov.12, 1944, 3 hits several near
misses caused her to capsize. Scrapped on site 1948-57
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