The battleship Tirpitz, like its sister the Bismarck, had the heaviest artillery ever installed on German ships. Overall barrel length was 19.6m and the weight of a single gun barrel 111 tonnes. Tirpitz entered service in 1941 and on 1st April 1944 in a Norwegian fjord near Tromso was hit a Grand Slam bombs dropped by RAF Lancasters and capsized.
Shipyard: Kriegsmarinewerft, Wilhelmshaven
Time to built: 1936-41
Length: 251 m
Draught: 10.6m
Capacity: 163,000hp
Speed: 38.8 knots
Armament: eight 38 cm cannon, twelve 15 cm cannon, sixteen 3.7 cm AA guns, sixteen 10.5 AA guns, twelve 2 cm AA guns, two 53.3 cm quad torpedo tubes.
A model construction kit of the Tirpitz which along with its sister ship the Bismarck, was the largest battleship of the Second World War.
- Water-line hull
- Detailed deck
- Turrets
- Crane's
- Authentic painting plan