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 ...

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 ...

The Treaty of Versailles drastically limited the size of the postwar Kriegsmarine, precluding Germany from owning any dreadnought battleships. The Germans could keep (and replace) pre-dreadnought ...

Captain Larry Taylor, who has died aged 102, was navigator of the destroyer Savage at the Battle of the North Cape on Boxing Day 1943, and Director of Marine Services after the war. Savage was part of ...

The German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau terrorized Allied shipping with unmatched ferocity while navigating the ...

A sonar image of the S.M.S. Scharnhorst, which sank in the south Atlantic on December 8, 1914 Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust Maritime archaeologists have located the wreck of the S.M.S. Scharnhorst ...

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 ...

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 ...