Operation Eisfjord

frozen fjord

'Eisfjord' was the German alternative designation for the raid against Spitsbergen island, undertaken by the battleship Tirpitz, on the only occasion the battleship ever fired her guns in anger, the battle-cruiser Scharnhorst and nine destroyers, and otherwise known as 'Sizilien' and 'Zitronella' (7/9 September 1943).