Tirpitz-Nazi Battleship
The Tirpitz is an unusual scratch built model with carved hull and super structure.  All gun turrets, life boats, and airplanes on deck are carved.  The battle ship is painted in camouflage colors of charcoal gray, light gray and white and flies the Nazi flag. The builder of this “folksy” model may have seen the battleship.

The Tirpitz, was the second and last battleship of the German Kreigsmarine and the sister ship of the Bismarck.  These Bismarck class warships were the largest in the German fleet.  She was commissioned on February 1941, launched on April 1, 1939, and afterwards went to the Baltic to conduct sea trials.  She displaced 42,900 tons and had an overall length of 792 feet.  Her maximum speed was 30 knots and she had a range of 9,000 miles at 19 knots.   Her crew numbered 2,400.  At the beginning of 1942, she was sent to Norway in order to repel a possible allied invasion, and to attack the Russia-bound Artic convoys. In September, 1943, while anchored in Altenfjord, she was attached by British midget submarines and put out of action for the first time.  Later submitted to continuous aerial bombings, the Tirpitz was sunk off Hakoy Island near Tomso.  Winston Churchill said “the destruction, or even the crippling, of this ship is the greatest event at sea at the present time.  No other target is comparable to it.  The entire naval situation throughout the world would be altered.”