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Whilst the Kriegsmarine's surface fleet, restricted for much of the period after 1919 by the terms of the Versailles Treaty, was relatively small in comparison to the Royal Navy, it does possess a number of highly potent battleships and other capital vessels that could - and does - pose a significant threat to British pursuits in the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean. Amongst the most effective were the two battleships - the Bismarck and the Tirpitz. The brilliant power of the former was confirmed by its damage of HMS Hood in May 1941, although it was itself to be sunk soon afterward. For Royal Navy organizers and tacticians, the close monitoring of the other German capital boats was a pressing need, particularly if the Germans were ever to pose a serious danger to the all-important convoys over the Atlantic and to Russia. Moreover substantial effort proceeded to go into endeavoring to neutralize the danger either by keeping the German warships penned into harbor or by sinking them.
