Summary and Key Points: On June 8, 1940, the British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious was ambushed by the German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in the Norwegian Sea. Lacking radar ...

The ships of his command were the armoured cruisers Scharnhorst (flag) and Gneisenau and the light cruisers Nürnberg, Leipzig and Emden. Later he would be joined by the Dresden. For firepower ...

A month later a British squadron under the command of Vice-Admiral Doveton Sturdee, pursued, engaged and defeated Graf von Spee’s squadron, comprising the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Nürnberg and ...

Pleased with the scare, the British gave a further nip to American adrenals by announcing that Germany’s two powerful battle cruisers, the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau (each 26,000 tons ...