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30 de abr. de 2024 · Scharnhorst, German battle cruiser completed in 1939. It did great damage to Allied shipping in northern waters during World War II before it was sunk by the British battleship “Duke of York” on Dec. 26, 1943.
13 de dic. de 2020 · Schmid, Thomas (2018). “The Battleship Scharnhorst (1936)”. In Taylor, Bruce (ed.). The World of the Battleship: The Lives and Careers of Twenty-One Capital Ships of the World’s Navies, 1880–1990. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-0870219061. Winton, John (2003). Death of the Scharnhorst. London: Cassell.
The lead battleship of her class, Scharnhorst was commissioned on January 7, 1939. On her first sortie. she sank an armed merchant cruiser. Later, in company with Gineisenau, she sank a British carrier and two destroyers. A second cruise by both ships netted 116,000 tons and severely disrupted the Atlantic convoy schedules. A bombing raid in July 1941 put Scharnhorst out of action until early ...
5 de ago. de 2018 · German battleship Scharnhorst underway. On 15th March, the Scharnhorst sank a total of 27,277 tons of shipping after a skirmish with a British convoy in the mid-Atlantic. They were pursued by the two fierce battleships, King George V and Rodney, but the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were too fast, and successfully evaded the British in a squall.
At 07.30 on 26 December, Bey detached his destroyers to sweep to the south-west for the convoy. They lost touch with Scharnhorst and played no further part in the day's events. At 0840 on 26 December Belfast gained radar contact on Scharnhorst to the south-east of the convoy.
Repeat broadcast 20th December 1984 BBC1The Life and Death of the 'Scharnhorst' with Ludovic Kennedy Forty-one years ago, on Boxing Day 1943, the most succes...
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This photograph records one of the proudest moments in the star-crossed career of the battlecruiser KMS Scharnhorst, the commissioning ceremony for the new warship in the harbor at Wilhelmshaven, Germany, on January 7, 1939. After months of bitter international debate, the free city of Danzig was a mere backwater of the land battle when the ...
