Had London simply taken a step back and realized the Germans were disinterested in deploying the Tirpitz from its Norwegian redoubt, they probably could have avoided many mistakes.

which included the Bismarck and the Tirpitz, was designed in the mid-1930s as the German answer to French naval expansion (especially France’s two Richelieu-class battleships). The Bismarck ...

However, the complexity, size, and scope of the Bismarck was a significant drain on the Third Reich’s finances. Though the ship was intended to be the first of a class of similar battleships ...

The HMS Prince of Wales was a King George V-class battleship and the most advanced ... the signing of the Japanese surrender. The German Bismarck-class Tirpitz was a behemoth and a scourge of ...

Launched in 1939 and commissioned in 1941, the Tirpitz was one of the largest battleships ever built ... The Tirpitz and the Bismarck were each meant to serve as commerce raiders, disrupting ...