Tirpitz in a sentence

It meant the Allies didn't dare send anything into that area that couldn't deal with the Tirpitz.

Forty-five minutes later the Tirpitz’s huge 380-millimeter guns began thundering massive shells up at the massive bombers—to little effect.

Here’s a piece of quintessential Channel 5 film-making, as a new series of interviews, CGI and archive footage begins with the story of the battleships that fought during the Second World War, including the Nazi leviathans Bismarck and Tirpitz.

In 1942, during World War II, British naval forces staged a successful raid on the Nazi-occupied French port of St. Nazaire in Operation Chariot, destroying the only dry dock on the Atlantic coast capable of repairing the German battleship Tirpitz.

The German battleship Tirpitz was anchored in Kaafjord, Norway and posed a big threat to allied ships.

The RAF lost two aircraft to the Tirpitz’s antiaircraft guns.

At a meeting with the army, the navy proposed delay until May 1941, when Bismarck and Tirpitz would be ready.

Despite the difficulties, Tirpitz persuaded the Reichstag to pass a further Novelle in March 1908.

Gottschall, By Order of the Kaiser, p. 260 Tirpitz argued that if the fleet could achieve two-thirds the number of capital ships possessed by Britain then it stood a chance of winning in a conflict.

Hindenburg initially demurred, but under strong pressure from Tirpitz applied over several meetings, he broke down and agreed to run.

It suited Alfred von Tirpitz, because it removed the influence of the admiralty staff from naval planning, but left him the possibility, in wartime, to reorganise command around himself.

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.

The decision to continue was taken by Tirpitz in September 1905 and agreed by Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow and the Kaiser, while Dreadnought was still at the planning stage.

This reflected a change in attitude amongst military planners that a land war in Europe was increasingly likely, and a turning away from Tirpitz's scheme for worldwide expansion using the navy.

Tirpitz advocated the cause of an expanded navy necessary for Germany to defend her territories abroad.

Tirpitz enjoyed Wilhelm's full support in his advocacy of successive naval bills of 1897 and 1900, by which the German navy was built up to contend with that of the British Empire.

Tirpitz hoped that other second-rank powers might ally with Germany, attracted by its navy.

Tirpitz saw this once again as an opportunity to press for naval expansion and the continuation of the four capital ships per year building rate into 1912.

Tirpitz started with a publicity campaign aimed at popularising the navy.

Tirpitz’s ultimate goal was a fleet capable of rivaling the British fleet.