[pig] Tirpitz was a pig captured from the German Navy after a naval skirmish following the Battle of the Falkland Islands in 1914. He subsequently became the mascot of the cruiser HMS Glasgow. == Early life == Pigs were often kept on board warships to supply fresh meat. Tirpitz was aboard SMS Dresden when she was ordered into the South Atla...
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(from the article `Wallis, Sir Barnes`) ...but also the 12,000-pound `Tallboy` and the 22,000-pound `Grand Slam` bombs. He was also responsible for the bombs that destroyed the German ... ...hug the face of the dam as they sank, and then be detonated at the proper depth by a hydrostatic fuse. Another was the sinking ...
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German battleship in World War II, launched 1939 as a sister ship to the
Bismarck. It sailed to Norway January 1942 and remained there, a permanent threat to Allied convoys bound for the USSR until...
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The Tirpitz was a German Bismarck Class battleship of the Second World War, sister ship to the Bismarck. She was launched in February 1939. The Tirpitz had a displacement of 50,153 tons and was armed with eight 38 cm SKC/34 guns in four Dreh LC/34 twin turrets; twelve 15 cm SKC/28 guns in six Dreh LC/34 twin turrets three port and three starboard; ...
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