The Scharnhorst was far from the most heavily armed battleship deployed by the Kriegsmarine—but she arguably was its most successful. She and sistership Gneisenau were laid down in 1935 with nine ...

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The sinking of the Scharnhorst was an enormous psychological blow for the German nation, at the height of World War Two. The wreck has recently been discovered on the sea bed, giving us new ...

Gneisenau and Scharnhorst represented the peak of German naval ambition, but both met very different final fates. One was ...

Bound, in his words, will tell us how the mighty Scharnhorst was finally discovered Mensun Bound, the leader of the mission which discovered the flagship of Admiral Graf von Spee's squadron, was born ...

On December 23, 1943, the fifth Boxing Day at war with Nazi Germany, the last clash of ‘big gun’ ships took place in European waters. In the darkness of the polar night, superior training, superior ...

The Royal Navy plotted carefully to trap and destroy the Scharnhorst. It was the pride of Germany and along with the Tirpitz, it was intended for the Arctic, where it was to attack Allied convoys to ...

As far as I can give it, this is the account of the battle between the battle-cruiser “Sharnhost” (26,000 tons) and ships of the Home Fleet consisting of “Duke of York” battleship, “Jamaica”, “Belfast ...

This is one of the Royal Navy’s greatest 20th century adversaries – last seen 105 years ago. Sitting upright on the seabed about 100 miles southeast of Port Stanley, this is the cruiser Scharnhorst, ...