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SMS Scharnhorst [a] was an armored cruiser of the Imperial German Navy, built at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany. She was the lead ship of her class, which included SMS Gneisenau. Scharnhorst and her sister were enlarged versions of the preceding Roon class; they were equipped with a greater number of main guns and were capable of ...
By 17:32, the range had closed to 28,446 yards and the Scharnhorst opened up. Both German ships were building up speed, to 29, 30, 32 knots. Meanwhile Glorious had picked up the Germans at 17:01, and transmitted this report to HQ: "Two battle-cruisers bearing 308° distance 15 mile on course 030°.
The Scharnhorst and other German ships raced back to Trondheim, arriving there sometime on June 9. Next day they were seen by air reconnaissance and 24 hours later were attacked from 15,000 feet by 12 Hudsons, each of which dropped four 250-lb. armor-piercing bombs. The Scharnhorst escaped damage, but hits were scored on two cruisers and a ...
Battleship D, later called Scharnhorst , was laid down in May 1935 at the Kriegsmarine Shipyard in Wilhelmshaven and commissioned in January 1939. The sister ship Gneisenau (Battleship E) was laid down in March 1935 at the Deutsche Werke in Kiel and commissioned in May 1938. It soon got obvious that the straight bow of the ships had to be ...
7 de sept. de 2022 · Gerhard Johann von Scharnhorst Warship 1938 (Source: Wikimedia Commons) hat is known as the miracle ship of the German navy from 1936, the Scharnhorst was the second capital ship to take part in World War II. Many naval engineers consider this ship ahead of its time, however, even if this is true that is not necessarily what makes this ...
3 de mar. de 2021 · British shells continued hammering the German ship. “Once the Duke of York got in there with those tremendous guns, it was horrendous to watch,” recalled a sailor on Norfolk. “She just smashed the thing to pieces. It was just a blaze from one end to the other.” But Scharnhorst’s guns kept firing, despite the horrific conditions on board.
15 de sept. de 2023 · Scharnhorst was hit and lost speed. HMS Duke of York, the heavy cruiser HMS Norfolk, the light cruisers HMS Belfast and Jamaica closed in on the German vessel. Next morning, she was sunk by gunfire from HMS Duke of York and shells and torpedoes from HMS Jamaica. Out of the 1,968 crew members of the German vessel, only 36 survived.
