During the battle the Scharnhorst's guns were gradually disabled, one by one On 26 December 1943 one of the great sea battles of World War II took place. Germany's most famous battleship - the ...

Laid down in 1935, the first two ships of the new era of German naval expansion became the fast battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, named after a pair of crack armored cruisers destroyed at the ...

Heavily damaged in a July 1941 air-raid, Scharnhorst joined other German capital ships five months later in the notorious “Channel Dash” that was staged under the nose of Britain’s coastal ...

The German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were designed ... Though Gneisenau had smaller 11-inch guns compared to standard 15-inch battleship armaments, her superior speed and armor made ...

In December 1943, HMS Duke of York braved brutal Arctic conditions to protect an Allied convoy from the lurking German battleship Scharnhorst. Though Scharnhorst was fast and heavily armed ...

The Scharnhorst sank in the south Atlantic on December 8, 1914, with more than 800 crew members onboard. The cruiser was one of four German ships lost during the Battle of the Falkland Islands ...

HMS Invincible and HMS Inflexible inflicted substantial damage on SMS Scharnhorst, causing it to sink with all 860 people on board. The Royal Navy then gave pursuit to the remaining German ships.

‘We are often chasing shadows on the seabed, but when the Scharnhorst first appeared in the data flow, there was no doubt that this was one of the German fleet… a stonking great ship. You ...

Germany's most famous battleship - the Scharnhorst - was sunk by Allied forces during the Battle of the North Cape. Norman Scarth was an 18-year-old on board the British naval destroyer HMS ...

Germany's most famous battleship - the Scharnhorst - was sunk by Allied forces during the Battle of the North Cape. Norman Scarth was an 18-year-old on board the British naval destroyer HMS ...