In October 1941, he appointed trusted friend Lord Louis Mountbatten, nephew of the King and a war hero, to lead the Combined Services Command which was responsible for attacks designed to harass and cripple Axis targets. As he put it, “The whole strategy of the war turns at this period on this ship.”Ĭhurchill was a master tactician and involved himself in all manner of wartime decisions. So Churchill and his Admiralty were obsessed by the Tirpitz lurking in Norway’s fjords. Naval Heritage and History Command, NH 59668.įor Britain, satisfaction from sinking Bismarck in May 1941 was tempered by the fact that, before she succumbed, Bismarck had sunk the vaunted HMS Hood in 10 short minutes and severely damaged the new HMS Prince of Wales. The hunt for Bismarck occupied most of the fleet, leaving Atlantic supply convoys to the mercy of German U-Boats. At over 50,000 tons, Tirpitz was heavily armored and could outgun or outrun any other warship.
She bristled with dozens of 15 cm and 10.5 cm guns as well as anti-aircraft guns and torpedo tubes. Tirpitz was slightly larger than its recently sunk sister ship Bismarck and had a top speed of 30 knots, a range of 8,000 nautical miles, and four dual sets of 38cm guns. To gain dominance over the Atlantic shipping lanes that supplied Britain and Russia, Kriegsmarine Admiral and former WWI U-Boat commander, Karl Dönitz needed either more submarines or stronger engagement from the German surface fleet, particularly the newly operational battleship Tirpitz. Winston Churchill faced a bleak winter of 1942 that promised continued air raids, setbacks on land, and struggles on the home front exacerbated by German U-Boat and surface fleets strangling supply routes to his beloved island.Īlthough Churchill believed that the involvement of the United States in the war had tilted the odds of victory toward the Allies, he knew that Britain needed positive engagements to maintain morale and buy time for the United States to spool up to a war footing.īy January 1942, the German U-Boat fleet had grown to nearly two hundred vessels with roughly half operational at any moment. If there’s nowhere safe and legal to stop, and nobody else is in the vehicle to read the alert, you can listen to news on live radio to find out about the emergency.Top Image: HMS Campbeltown lodged on the drydock in St. If you’re driving or riding when you get an alertĭo not read or respond to an emergency alert while driving or riding.įind somewhere safe and legal to stop before reading the message. When you get an alert, stop what you’re doing and follow the instructions in the alert. You do not need to turn on location services to receive alerts. You’ll get alerts based on your current location - not where you live or work. The sound and vibration will last for about 10 seconds.Īn alert will include a phone number or a link to the GOV.UK website for more information.
Make a loud siren-like sound, even if it’s set on silent
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