Initially, the destroyer was a ship of the US Navy. The ship was selected to participatd ina a audacious raid in St Nazaire. It should be use as suicide ship. It was filled with 3 t of explosives intended destroy the door lock of the Joubert form in St. Nazaire making the drydock unusable. Thus, the Tirpitz could not be used in France because it was the only dry dock that could accomodate a ship as large.
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