Channel 5 (UK) Documentaries - 2005x01 - Loch Ness Monster: The Ultimate Experiment- Followmy.tv

"While that damned ship is afloat, she will be a constant menace to all our shipping. Churchill called her 'Hitler's Beast'. Launched in April 1939, the giant German battleship Tirpitz could out-fight anything in the Royal Navy. One-sixth of a mile long, with a crew of 2,400 and capable of speeds close to 40mph, the Tirpitz was also armed with a full battery of seventy-two guns, including eight 15" guns capable of sending a 2,000lb shell over twenty miles. She posed a formidable threat to Britain's sea lanes and convoys - and the fear of her sheer destructive power was so great that sinking her became a personal obsession of Prime Minister Churchill. Using dramatic reconstructions, computer graphics and rare original footage Sink the Tirpitz! tells the gripping story of the Allies' attempts to destroy this awesome warship.