It’s December 1943. The intrepid German battleship Scharnhorst sails through the freezing cold waters of the Barents’ Sea, hoping to[...] ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...