Chronicles Operation TITLE, an Allied mission led by Prime Minister Winston Churchill to sink the formidable German battleship Tirpitz.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill referred to Tirpitz as ‘The Beast,’ and on 25th January 1942 he wrote, ‘The destruction or even the crippling of this ship is the greatest event at this present time. No other target is comparable to it.’ With these words the seeds were sown for Operation TITLE, an Allied mission to sink Tirpitz. Harvesting began on 19th October 1942 when the fishing boat, Arthur, sailed from Scalloway with a crew of four Norwegians, a six-man team of Royal Navy divers and two ‘chariots’ in a brave attempt to tame ‘the Beast.’ Arduous training of men, fine tuning of the experimental ‘chariots,’ and the determination of those who undertook this mission all combined in a contest comparable with the biblical tale of David and Goliath. In this case Goliath, in the form of Tirpitz, survived with, sadly, the death of one Able Seaman, Robert Paul Evans RN. This book is a tribute to him and to all those who, undertaking similar dangerous deeds of valor, shared the same fate.

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 The Threat
• Chapter 2 A Wake-up Call
• Chapter 3 Playing Catch-up
• Chapter 4 The Shetland Bus
• Chapter 5 Operation Basalt
• Chapter 6 Preparations Under Way
• Chapter 7 Scotland – and Beyond
• Chapter 8 Sink the Tirpitz
• Chapter 9 Escape to Sweden and Home. Brewster’s Party
• Chapter 10 Escape to Sweden and Home. Larsen’s Party
• Chapter 11 Evans – Dead or Alive?
• Chapter 12 Operation Freshman
• Chapter 13 Grini Prison and Trandum Forest
• Chapter 14 On the Home Front
• Chapter 15 Conclusions
• Chapter 16 Robert Paul Evans – A Mother’s Son
• Chapter 17 Called to Account
• Chapter 18 Operation Source – A Question
• Chapter 19 Tirpitz
• Notes
• Postscript
• Timeline
• Author’s Acknowledgements
• Bibliography
• Plates