Sink the Tirpitz - Hunting Germany's Super Battleship

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Credits: Geni; Bundesarchiv; US National Archives

[hanzup]

Finally, a bit of history I knew before Mark Felton made a video on it. That's a rare thing.

[davemicrowave]

These old big battleships are so majestic and badass.

[JohnDiabol]

I am from Tromsø, the location where the Tirpitz sank.
She went down outside of Håkøya, a small island located outside of the main city of Tromsø.
There is a memorial on the location and a huge piece of thick steel, supposedly a piece of the ships hull stands there still as a reminder of what happened in November 1944 and the men that died in their line of duty.
Something that Mark didn't mention in the video is how knocking could be heard from inside the hull of the ship for a couple of days after she capsized while crew on the outside worked frantically to cut through hulls and bulkheads to save the men still trapped inside.
A lot of souvenirs were taken from the ship by the men that worked with scrapping her and many are still in privately owned hands to this day.
I've personally seen many artefacts from inside the ship, including shell casings from her secondary batteries, uniforms, medals, cutlery and more.

[More-Space-In-Ear]

She was my first airfix model boat back in the early 70’s, after built she was chosen to advertise airfix models in a toy shop…got a free 24th scale mustang for my troubles 😊

[timpedder]

Squadron Leader "Benny" Goodman, the last wartime surviving pilot of 617 and who took part in the final raid on Tirpitz, passed away a few days ago aged 100. R, I.P Benny Goodman.

[stc]

Fun fact: Pieces of steel from the Tirpitz are used to cover pot holes on the roads in Oslo.

[vkig]

Another _Tirpitz_ fact: one of the Norwegian resistance radio operators who kept tabs on the _Tirpitz_ and reported her position to the British was Torstein Raaby, who was later the radio operator on Thor Heyerdahl's _Kon-Tiki_ expedition.

[SilverPigeon]

I worked several years in a hardware store i Tromsø. I once had a customer who bought a powerful planer from me, with blades that could handle teak wood. He could tell me that he had gotten hold of alot of the teak deck from Tirpitz, and was going to make a dining table for his granddaughter. Thats what you call a dining table with history in it.

[adrianalbertoriverairizarr]

A Morning is never complete if you don’t watch a Mark Felton Production.

The bottom plates from Tirpitz was removed and sent to Oslo capital of Norway. They are used for covering construction holes in the streets of Oslo. And still in use today in almost mint condition

[benadam]

It's also been said that while the townspeople were happy that the Tirpitz had been sunk, they genuinely felt bad for Tirpitz's crew that died because while on shore leave the crewmen were well behaved boys!

[PedroConejo]

I had a friend who flew on one of the Fleet Air Arm raids against the Tirpitz. He lost a lot of friends that day and told me he was physically sick when he went to a cinema and saw in the news reels that the RAF had sunk it with almost no losses.

[QUADFLY]

Such a class story! It's a never ending learning cycle from Dr Felton!

[hirepgym]

My uncle RAF Pilot Alan Grant was killed trying to sink the Tirpitz his still buried in Norway

[aceeastwood]

10:55 The craters after the explosion are still visible in Google maps. Fun fact! One of the Dambuster aircraft, Easy Elise, is resting on a bog in Sweden near the town of Porjus

[smsuperstrat]

My frustration is when a video is excellent, such as this one, I'm filled with such euphoria that I forget to hit the 👍. Happily I remembered this time!

[yuthdecay]

A Cold beer and a Dr Felton video after work, life is good

[YETICOPTER]

incredible that those Lancasters were able to score three hits like that. really shows the ingenuity and skill of bombardiers in that era.

[TheSuperMegaFox]

Great video! I was friends with the only Bismarck survivor who lived in the United States. His name was Bruno Rzonka. He was always open about discussing what happened during the battle. He was very adamant that the ship was scuttled at the end and not sunk by torpedoes. According to him, after all the guns were knocked out, orders were given over the intercom, to scuttle the ship and he was one of the crewmen that did it.

[wellingtonsboots]

Thank you for this, my father didn't tell us much about his war experience. But sinking the Tirpitz was an exception. This brought back some good memories.