SMS Scharnhorst was named after the chief of the Prussian general staff during the Napoleonic Wars The wreck of a World War One German armoured cruiser has been located off the Falkland Islands ...

How German Battleships Defeated a British Aircraft ... worst threat conceivable—the German battlecruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhorst. Only a few dozen would survive one of the most controversial ...

Savage was part of the destroyer screen for the covering force of Convoy JW 55B to Russia, led by the battleship ... signalled that the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst was at sea.

the cruisers 'Belfast', 'Norfolk', 'Sheffield', 'Jamaica'; four destroyers including the Norwegian 'Stord' and the battleship 'Duke of York'. Axis: the German battle cruiser 'Scharnhorst'.

The wreck of a German armoured cruiser that was sunk by the British during the First World War has been found off the coast of the Falkland Islands. SMS Scharnhorst was the flagship of Admiral ...

Mensun Bound, the leader of the search, said: “It is with mixed emotions that we announce the discovery of SMS Scharnhorst, the armoured German battle-cruiser that was sunk during the Battle of ...

HMS Canopus was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy missed ... were to locate Admiral Graf von Spee’s flagship, the Scharnhorst, and her sister ship, the Gneisenau, and then to ...

German U-boats were already very effective ... To maximize damage, the raid was to include Germany's four best capital ships: battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, which were sister ships ...

The documentary release The War File: Great German Battleships of World War II culls ... topics include the Dreadnoughts, the Scharnhorst, the Bismarck, Channel Dash and Tirpitz.

Nazi battleship Scharnhorst became one of the most feared ... On her trip home, laden with Russian gold, the warship was attacked by a German U-boat. Despite her exemplary service, at the end ...