Actually they built two of those. Oddly enough the second one (the Tirpitz) was sunk in a single shot.
actually Tirpitz was sunk by bombers dropping huge bombs called “tallboys”. I got this excerpt from Wikipedia: Tirpitz was finally sunk immediately to the west of Tromsø, in the bay of Håkøybotn, on 12 November 1944 by 9 Squadron Lancasters with Tallboys on their third attempt. The ship was struck by three Tallboys. One glanced off turret armour, but the other two pierced the ship’s armour and blew a 200 foot hole into her port side. Soon after, internal fires set off a magazine and blew off “C” turret. Tirpitz capsized within minutes of the attack, and close to 1,000 German sailors, out of 1,700 aboard, died.
Yeah, but it took the RAF how many tries and only when they had their superbomb the “Tallboy”.
Oddly enough, it wasn’t. After an X class submarine planted a rather large charge under TIRPITZ, she was damaged, but not sunk. Several air raids by the RAF scored “bupkus”. It took 633 Squadron and specially designed 6,000 lb. “Tall Boy” bombs and [I believe] three hits to sink her in Altenfijord. The Germans built them tough.