Bismarck's sister ship spent most of the war sheltering in Norwegian fjords, but her mere existence as a 'fleet in being' tied down Royal Navy capital ships and forced the scattering of Convoy PQ 17. She was finally destroyed at anchor by RAF Lancasters dropping 12,000lb Tallboy bombs in November 1944.
Battleship Tirpitz, A503 FM30-50 booklet for identification of ships, published by the Division of Naval Intelligence of the Navy Department of the United States.File:Tirpitz-2.jpg: here derivative work: Georgfotoart · Public domain · sourceFor documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. ADN-ZB/Archiv II.Weltkrieg 1939 - 45 In den Gewässern vor dBoeckmann · CC BY-SA 3.0 de · sourceFor documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Schlachtschiff "Tirpitz", Stapellauf Wilhelmshaven - StapelUnknownUnknown · CC BY-SA 3.0 de · source
