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The German coastal battery Tirpitz, consisting mainly of three large 280 mm guns, was the most powerful coastal battery on the Romanian shore during World...

Atlantic Wall in Denmark. Tirpitz Museum (Norway), focused on the battleship of same name. German coastal battery Tirpitz, a World War II artillery emplacement...

Coastal artillery is the branch of the armed forces concerned with operating anti-ship artillery or fixed gun batteries in coastal fortifications. From...

preeminent naval power, would avoid risking war with Germany in order to preserve its superiority. Tirpitz secured a series of Naval Laws between 1900 and...

English Channel from occupied France to Germany. In early 1943, Scharnhorst joined the Bismarck-class battleship Tirpitz in Norway to interdict Allied convoys...

in motion when German forces concentrated in Altafjord from where they could sortie against the convoy. On 2 July, the battleship Tirpitz, the heavy cruiser...

boost Romanian coastal defenses, the Germans also built up their own batteries: Tirpitz battery (3 x 280 mm naval guns) Lange Bruno battery (3 x 280 mm naval...

German Federal Navy), which was mainly for coast defence. Kaiser Wilhelm II greatly expanded the navy. The key leader was Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz,...

attack, which German naval experts deemed more important." As built, Bismarck and Tirpitz were equipped with an anti-aircraft battery of sixteen 10.5 cm...

The Todt Battery, also known as Batterie Todt, was a battery of coastal artillery built by Nazi Germany during World War II, located in the hamlet of Haringzelles...

flotilla leader Mărăști and the destroyer Regina Maria and the German coastal battery Tirpitz. The Soviet destroyer leader Moskva was sunk by Romanian mines...

for the German navy. For a final total of 60 German battleships, Britain would be required to build 90 to meet the 2:3 ratio envisioned by Tirpitz. The Royal...

also attacked a coastal battery with bombs. The cruiser entered the harbor and anchored at 05:25 to debark the mountain troops. A German tanker which was...

destroyers Regina Maria, Mărăști, the Romanian coastal battery Elisabeta, and the German coastal battery Tirpitz, were prepared to engage the Soviet ships...

Moskva. The Romanian warships were supported by coastal artillery, including the German coastal battery Tirpitz (nominally under Romanian command) and the...

between Tirpitz and elements of the German naval administration over whether the main battery guns should be increased in number or caliber. Tirpitz and the...

November 1940, critically damaged the German battleship Bismarck in May 1941 and prevented the battleship Tirpitz from attacking two convoys bound for...

Sicily), was an eight-hour German raid on Spitzbergen, in the Svalbard Archipelago, on 8 September 1943. The battleships Tirpitz (in its only offensive action)...

In the 1880s, Germany built a series of coastal defense ships to protect its coastline on the North and Baltic Seas. During the 1870s and early 1880s...

the navy chief Alfred von Tirpitz and the growing sense of national rivalry with the UK. Besides the Brandenburg class, German pre-dreadnoughts include...