HMS Glorious and her two escorts, HMS Ardent and HMS Acasta, who lost their lives when sunk by German battleships.

when his ship took part in the sinking of the German battleship Scharnhorst which had approximately 2,000 men on board of which only 36 were rescued, 30 of them by his ship. He did not know it at ...

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 German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were designed ... In the early years of World War II, the sister ships wreaked havoc on enemy convoys, proving their effectiveness as swift hunters.

Joseph Stalin last week congratulated Britain’s home fleet on sinking the 26,000-ton German battleship Scharnhorst (see above). Next day, Moscow’s Red Star published a cartoon showing a ...

SMS Scharnhorst was the flagship of Admiral ... is a major breakthrough in the "quest to locate all of the ships that comprised the German squadron lost during the battle". The search for the ...

Mr Ditcham himself landed some blows against the mighty German battleship Scharnhorst when, in his role as gunnery control officer on the destroyer HMS Scorpion which had closed to almost point ...