Tirpitz was the second of two Bismarck-class battleships built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine before and during the Second World War. She was named after Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, the architect of the Imperial Navy. She was laid down at the Kriegsmarinewerft in Wilhelmshaven in November 1936, launched in April 1939 and commissioned in February 1941. Like her sister ship Bismarck she carried a main battery of eight 38-centimetre guns in four twin turrets, and after wartime modifications she was about 2,000 tonnes heavier, making her the heaviest battleship ever built by a European navy. Based in Norway from early 1942, she served as a fleet in being that forced the Royal Navy to keep large forces in the area. After a series of air raids she was sunk by Lancaster bombers using Tallboy bombs on 12 November 1944, and her wreck was broken up between 1948 and 1957.
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was the second of two Bismarck-class battleships built for Nazi Germany
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Work was completed in February 1941, when she was commissioned into the German fleet
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main battery of eight 38-centimetre (15 in) guns
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the wreck was broken up by a joint Norwegian and German salvage operation
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built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine (navy)
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prior to and during the Second World War
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