It was four years after the Sheffield Blitz — the devastating December 1940 attacks that left thousands homeless — and the Nazis were losing on every front.

The rocket was introduced by the Germans in 1944 and was 14m long A German V2 rocket from World War II has been found nose down in the mud flats at Harwich Harbour in the east coast of England.

The German firm aiming to be the first to ... The launcher, known as RFA One, is a 30m-tall three-stage rocket capable of delivering a 1,300kg payload to a sun-synchronous orbit around Earth.