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Key facts
- Namesake
- Alfred von Tirpitz
- Builder
- Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven
- Laid down
- 2 November 1936
- Launched
- 1 April 1939
- Commissioned
- 25 February 1941
- Fate
- Sunk by Royal Air Force bombers on 12 November 1944
- Class type
- Bismarck -class battleship
- Displacement
- 42,900 t (42,200 long tons) standard 52,600 t (51,800 long tons) full load
- Length
- 241.60 m (792 ft 8 in) waterline 251 m (823 ft 6 in) overall
- Beam
- 36 m (118 ft 1 in)
- Draft
- 9.30 m (30 ft 6 in) standard
- Installed power
- 12 × Wagner water-tube boilers ; 163,026 PS (160,796 shp ; 119,905 kW )
- Propulsion
- 3 × geared steam turbines ; 3 × screw propellers
- Speed
- 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
- Range
- 8,870 nmi (16,430 km; 10,210 mi) at 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph)
- Complement
- 103 officers 1,962 enlisted men
- Sensors processing systems
- FuMO 23
- Armament
- As built: 8 × 38 cm (15 in) SK C/34 (4 × 2) 12 × 15 cm (5.9 in) L/55 (6 × 2) 16 × 10.5 cm (4.1 in) SK C/33 (8 × 2) 16 × 3.7 cm (1.5 in) SK C/30 (8 × 2) 12 × 2 cm (0.79 in) FlaK 30 (12 × 1) Modifications: 58 × 2 cm FlaK 30 8 × 53.3 cm (21 in) torpedo tubes
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- battleship
- Named after
- Alfred von Tirpitz
- Operator
- Kriegsmarine
- Manufacturer
- Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven
- Conflict
- World War II
- Image
- Tirpitz-2.jpg
- Length
- 251.0
- Speed
- 30.8
- Significant event
- ship launching
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- draft
- 9.9
- yard number
- 128
- Commons category
- Tirpitz (ship, 1941)
- Commons gallery
- Tirpitz (Schiff, 1941)
- vessel class
- Bismarck-class battleship
- armament
- cannon
- beam
- 36.0
- country of registry
- Nazi Germany
- native label
- Tirpitz
- different from
- Alfred von Tirpitz
- location of creation
- Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven
- name
- Tirpitz
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