Tirpitz armor still being used as road plates

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    History In These Plates

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    By Christopher Albon | 4504 Days Ago



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    Every year, millions of Oslo vehicles roll over these nondescript metal plates. Put down by workers to cover road construction, they lay undignified and unnoticed. But, there is history in these plates. They belong to Tirpitz.

    Tirpitz sunk on November 12, 1944, an event brilliantly described last week by UltimaRatioReg. After the war, the Lonely Queen of the North was cut up and sold as scrap. A few of her armor plates were sold to the Norwegian Road Authority, who to this day use them in Oslo as temporary road surface. It is an anonymous but noble end to an august vessel.
     
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  2. I rather think it's a fittingly ignominous end to an utterly useless mass of floating steel. :D
     

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