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 ...

Gerhard von Scharnhorst, who came from a family of small farmers in Lower Saxony, embarked on a military career and became an important Prussian general. Together with Baron vom Stein, he reformed the ...

Scharnhorst was Germany's first attempt at building warships that could rival the naval supremacy of British and French battlecruisers. Still, it was built under the restrictions of the Washington ...

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 ...

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 ...