| The big part the Tirpitz played and therefore the impact she had was simply in the threat she posed. The Royal Navy had to tie up considerable amounts of resources just to cover the possibility that the Tirpitz might go to sea, which were obviously resources desperately required elsewhere.
Without ever completing a sortie in anger the Tirpitz was considerably more disruptive than the Bismarck proved to be even from her hiding hole in Norway.
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“Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack, Butting through the Channel in the mad March days" |