An item reported that aircraft sighted on 12 August the German battleship Tirpitz (1), pocket battleship Scheer (2), heavy cruiser Hipper (3), light cruiser Koln (4) and 7 destroyers in the Narvik area, Norway. The Köln was before sighted at Trondheim, Norway. Aircraft confirmed that the pocket battleship Lutzow (5)left the Trondheim Fjord although her location was now unknown, perhaps she was underway towards Narvik.
Notes
1. Laid down by Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven, Germany on 2 November 1936, launched on 1 April 1939, commissioned on 25 February 1941 and sunk by the Royal Air Force on 12 November 1944 at Tromsø, Norway, with her wreck broken up between 1948-1957. Of the Bismarck-class as answer on the French Richelieu-class battleships.
1. Of the Deutschland-class panzerschiffe later classified as heavy cruisers preceded by the Admiral Hipper-class. Main armament 2x3-28cm/11”guns on fore and aft ship one turret. Laid down by Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven, Germany on 25 June 1931, launched on 1 April 1933, commissioned on 12 November 1934, sunk during an air attack at Kiel, Germany on 9 April 1945, partly broken up and the remains used of filling up the inner part of the dockyard.
3. Part of Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruisers,preceded by Deutschland-class, succeeded by the planned P-class, laid down by Blohm&Voss, Hamburg, Germany on 6 July 1935, launched on 6 February 1937, commissioned on 29 April 1939, scuttled on 3 May 1945 and between 1948-1952 salvaged and broken up.
4. Of the Königsberg-class light cruisers, preceded by Emden, succeeded by Leipzig-class, laid down by Reichsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven, Germany with yard number 116 in August 1926, launched on 23 May 1928, commissioned on 15 January 1930 and sunk by American air attack on Wilhelmshaven on 3 March 1945, partly scrapped in situ and in 1956 were the remains salvaged to be broken up.
5. Of the Deutschland-class panzerschiffe later classified as heavy cruisers preceded by the Admiral Hipper-class. Main armament 2x3-28cm/11”guns on fore and aft ship one turret. Laid down by Deutsche Werke, Kiel, Germany on 5 February 1929, launched on 19 May 131, commissioned as Deutschland on 1 April 1933, renamed Lützow in January 1940, sunk in April 194 during an British RAF air attack, salvaged by Russian forces in 1947 and sunk while used as a target on 22 July 1947.
Source
Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 248 dated 15 August 1942.
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