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	German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Admiral Scheer was a Deutschland class heavy cruiser (often termed a pocket battleship) which served with the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany during World War II.
		Admiral Scheer was modified during the early months of 1940: the command tower was replaced and she was reclassified as a heavy cruiser.
		Admiral Scheer sailed on 14 October 1940 and her first target was convoy HX-84 from Halifax, Nova Scotia, which had been identified by B-Dienst radio intercepts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/German_pocket_battleship_Admiral_Scheer (1030 words)

	First World War.com - Who's Who - Reinhardt Scheer
		Reinhardt Scheer (1863-1928) commanded the German High Seas Fleet at the Battle of Jutland and subsequently headed the Naval Supreme Command in 1918 until his dismissal by the Kaiser shortly before the war's end.
		On 8 August 1918 Scheer was appointed Chief of the Admiralty Staff - that is, as head of the Naval Supreme Command - replacing Holtzendorff (reluctantly agreed upon by the Kaiser) and belatedly imposing a unified command structure upon the navy.
		Reinhardt Scheer, who was the recipient of both the Pour le Merite and the Oakleaves, died on 26 November 1928 in Marktredwitz at the age of 65.
	www.firstworldwar.com /bio/scheer.htm (449 words)

	Admiral von Scheer
		Admiral Scheer entered the German navy as a cadet on 22 April 1879, and was promoted to Sea Cadet on 15 June 1880.
		Scheer proved to be a skillful tactician as he confused the British battle formation through battle turns of the entire High Seas Fleet and withdrew from a very threatening and in itself, intimidating embrace.
		Admiral Scheer was able to inflict heavy losses on the Allied Powers shipping even though he had a limited number of German warships at his disposal.
	www.100megsfree2.com /jjscherr/scherr/vonscheer.htm (1992 words)

	Admiral Scheer: Jervis Bay - Ross Memorial Park: Heritage Resources Saint John
		In 1940 she was withdrawn from active service for a general refit: the solid, rather typical pocket battleship control-tower and bridge were replaced by a lighter type of mast, and she was also given a clipper bow.
		Admiral Scheer continued on her own and managed to capture another ship - this time the Norwegian tanker Sandefjord, which was taken to France by a prize crew.
		Admiral Scheer then moved off on her own to operate in the Indian Ocean, off Mozambique, where she received orders to return home.
	www.saintjohn.nbcc.nb.ca /~Heritage/JervisBay/AdmiralScheer.htm (996 words)

	German , Nurnberg, Lutzow, Admiral Hipper, Graf Spee, Scheer, Tirpitz, Bismarck, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Graf, ...
		German, Nurnberg, Lutzow, Admiral Hipper, Graf Spee, Scheer, Tirpitz, Bismarck, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Graf, Zeppelin, Blucher, Leipzig
		German Surface Warships and Raiders - Pocket battleship "Admiral Scheer" sailed from Germany for the Atlantic and later Indian Oceans.
		German Heavy Warships and Raiders - Pocket battleship "Admiral Scheer" was hunting in the South Atlantic, while battlecruisers "Scharnhorst" and "Gneisenau" in Germany and heavy cruiser "Hipper" in Brest, France prepared to sail.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsGermanWarships.htm (6940 words)

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		The two battleships of the Bismarck class, Bismarck and Tirpitz were the last battleships built in Germany and the most famous.
		But after the construction of the second French battleship of the Dunkerque class, the naval construction department was forced to modify the previous design to build a stronger ship than the French counterparts.
		Although the primary mission objective for German ships was to sink allied merchant shipping, the battleships of the Bismarck class should also engage allied warships, unlike the Panzerschiffe and the Scharnhorst class.
	www.angelfire.com /mb/173/GERMANSHIPS.html (291 words)

	German, U-boat, U-39, U39, U.39, Courageous, Ark Royal Fortune, Forester, Foxhound, Firedrake, HMS
		"Admiral Graf Spee" in the South and "Deutschland" in the North Atlantic.
		German Navy forces included a pocket battleship, six cruisers and 14 destroyers for landings at the five Norwegian ports, with battlecruisers “Scharnhorst” and “Gneisenau” covering the two most northerly landings.
		German Codes - 'Ultra' was now breaking the Luftwaffe Enigma codes with some regularity, and early in the month had its first major breakthrough when supporting evidence for the Knickebein navigation aid for bombers was obtained.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsUboats.htm (4036 words)

	German Navy Ships--Tirpitz (1941-1944)
		German Warships sortie from a Norwegian fjord, circa 1942.
		Crewmen on board the battleship, while she was moored in a Norwegian fjord, circa 1942-44.
		Dancers entertain the crewmen on the battleship's after deck, while she was moored in a Norwegian fjord, circa 1942-44.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-fornv/germany/gersh-t/tirptz-o.htm (341 words)

	The Probert Encyclopaedia - Weapons and Warfare (G-O)
		She was armed with thirty-six 32 pounder guns on the lower deck and thirty-four 24 pounder guns on the main gun deck and a further ten 18 pounder guns on the upper deck.
		She was sunk by gunfire from the German battleship Bismarck south of Greenland on the 24th of May 1941 with the loss of all but three of the crew of 1,420.
		The Jagdpanzer IV was a German tank destroyer of the Second World War based on the chassis of the Panzer 4 tank, it had a long 75 mm gun in a fixed superstructure of 80 mm, weighed 24 tons, and had a top speed of 39 kph.
	www.fas.org /news/reference/probert/F4.HTM (15666 words)

	The Story of David Braid: Jervis Bay - Ross Memorial Park: Heritage Resources Saint John
		Braid, who was aboard the pocket battleship, recalled that the Germans hitched their prisoners to gun turrets and had them pull the turrents around on tackles during the action with the Jervis Bay.
		The pocket battleship, a sister ship of the Admiral Graf Spee which was scuttled by the Germans outside of Montevideo harbour, ran down to Southern Georgia.
		Later the Admiral Scheer transferred its British prisoners to the German raider Nordmark in the South Atlantic.
	www.saintjohn.nbcc.nb.ca /jervisbay/BraidDA.htm (742 words)

	World War II Day by Day: October 1940
		German armor and aircraft attacked and defeated a succession of Allied armies in Scandinavia, France, and the Low Countries.
		German forces enter Romania on the pretext of helping to train the army of the fascist Iron Guard government.
		The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer attacks a British convoy of 37 ships escorted by the armed merchant cruiser Jervis Bay, which fights to save the convoy.
	www.germanwarmachine.com /daybyday/1940/oct.htm (350 words)

	German Navy Battleships
		German battlecruisers were fitted with 28cm (11") guns only until the Derflinger class of 1914, which carried 30.5cm (12") guns; the first British battlecruisers carried 12" guns, and from 1910 on they carried 13.5" or larger guns.
		Some people have classified the Scharnhorst class as battleships, because their protection was much better than that on British battlecruisers, but we think of them as battlecruisers in the German small-gun tradition.
		Raiding German battlecruisers are intercepted by a larger squadron of British battlecruisers.
	home.att.net /~wellsbrothers/Battleships/GermanBBtable.html (1050 words)

	German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Admiral Graf Spee was a Panzerschiff, which served with the German Kriegsmarine before and during the early stages of World War II.
		Admiral Graf Spee sailed from Wilhelmshaven on 21 August 1939, to act as a raider in the South Atlantic.
		Admiral Graf Spee scuttled, following the Battle of the River Plate, in which she was engaged by New Zealand cruiser HMS Achilles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/German_battleship_Admiral_Graf_Spee (1425 words)

	Beaverford
		When the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer appeared on the horizon, the convoy found itself to be "sitting ducks" for disaster.
		The convoy was ordered to scatter and Fegen turned the Jervis Bay toward the approaching battleship, knowing his ship stood no chance of survival in the confrontation.
		The big guns of the battleship quickly tore into Jervis Bay, destroying the bridge, the gun center, and killing not only the captain but most of the officers.
	perdurabo10.tripod.com /ships/id180.html (466 words)

	Sandcastle V.I. - Voyages of the Enterprise - A World at War / Part 2
		From January 7 to February 6, 1940, she was on patrol in the Caribbean as part of an Anglo-French blockade of the island of Aruba.
		On July 3, after French Admiral Gensoul refused to surrender the fleet at Mers-el-Kebir, Algeria, the Enterprise and other ships of Force H were sent in to sink or disable as many of the French ships as possible.
		For a short time, she served as the flagship of Admiral F. Pegram, and on December 5, 1940, she participated in a search for the German cruiser Schiff, which a few days earlier had attacked the British cruiser HMS Carnarvon Castle southeast of Rio de Janiero.
	www.sandcastlevi.com /sea/enterprise/voych08b.htm (1516 words)

	Downhills Central School, Canadian Pacific, SS Beaverford, Jervis Bay, Merchant Seamen, Admiral Scheer
		The picture, (which is reputed to have been painted by an artist named S Stott), and the memorial plaque were dedicated on 20 May 1944 in the presence of the widow of the ship's master, Capt Hugh Pettigrew.
		The white ensign (on the Jervis Bay) was gone and "Beaverford", though only armed for defence against submarines, must keep her red ensign flying to the last to allow more fortunate vessels to speed away in other directions.
		Her fight with Admiral Scheer began about sundown and skill combined with fortune enabled her to resist until nearly an hour before midnight.
	freespace.virgin.net /j.franklin/Beaverford.htm (585 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Destroyer HMS Leamington of the Town class
		That summer, as the flush decker steamed toward North Russia in the screen of the ill-fated convoy, PQ-17, the powerful German battleship Tirpitz was reported on the prowl.
		The German submarine U-207 was sunk in the Straits of Denmark south-east of Angmassalik, Greenland, in position 63º59'N, 34º48'W, by depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Leamington and HMS Veteran.
		On 27 March 1942 the German submarine U-587 was sunk in position 47.21N, 21.39W by depth charges by the British escort destroyers HMS Grove and HMS Aldenham and the British destoyers HMS Volunteer and HMS Leamington of the 2nd Escort Group, escorting the troop convoy WS-17.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/4175.html (788 words)

	FREE MARKET FAIRY TALES: On This Day ... in 1854 & Others
		1916: During an assault on German trenches near Le Transloy in France, by men of the 2nd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, the first wave suffered heavy casualties, lost its commander, and became pinned down.
		1940: The German "pocket battleship" Admiral Scheer attacked convoy HX-84 in the mid-Atlantic.
		Jervis Bay never once brought Admiral Scheer within the range of her own guns, but fought on with her decks ablaze.
	www.fmft.net /archives/001313.html (402 words)

	Angus Bannerman Robertson
		As the Jervis Bay went towards the Admiral Scheer with all guns blazing, she started to be hit by the 11” guns of the German ship and soon the bridge along with the gunnerycontrol centre were out of action.
		It is believed another armed freighter, the Beaverford, took up the fight and held the Admiral Scheer for a further few hours, but late in the evening she to was sunk with the loss of all hands.
		The German ship succeeded in sinking only five freighters in the time before darkness fell, this being mainly due to the actions of the two armed ships who faced the Admiral Scheer.
	www.pwsts.org.uk /angusrobertson.htm (2050 words)

	jervisbaymemorialservice
		A sizeable crowd gathered by the cenotaph at the Jervis Bay - Ross Memorial Park recently to commemorate the anniversary of the sinking of the HMS Jervis Bay at a memorial service held November 7th.
		The armed Merchant Ship sank in the North Atlantic November 5th 1940, following a heroic stand against the German battleship Admiral Scheer.
		Despite overwhelming odds, the outmatched Jervis Bay advanced and met the Admiral Scheer, diverting the enemy away from the convoy and allowing all but three of the ships in the convoy to escape.
	www.homestead.com /jervisbaymemorialservice (205 words)

	ATTACKS ON THE GERMAN FLEET \| NZETC
		A second formation of five Blenheims attacking the Admiral Scheer fifteen minutes later found the crew of the battleship at action stations.
		As his captain approached the battleship, the fifth Blenheim passed and was destroyed.
		As chief wireless operator for the formation he was responsible for obtaining valuable bearings on German wireless stations for navigational purposes and for passing messages to base, including the sighting reports of the German warships encountered.
	www.nzetc.org /tm/scholarly/tei-WH2-2Epi-c1-WH2-2Epi-b.html (724 words)

	RMS Rangitiki
		It has been said that it was the size of the 'Tiki (at around 17,000 tons the largest vessel in the convoy), and its two funnel profile that made it such attractive prey.
		Upon the Scheer's initial shell-fire falling dangerously close to the 'Tiki, Capt. Fegen ordered his ship to engage the enemy, although hopelessly outgunned and with no protective armour to resist the Scheer's 11" guns.
		A second ship, the lightly armed ss Beaverford commanded by Capt. Hugh Pettigrew, then made to engage the Scheer and succeeded in gaining some more precious time for the convoy before she, too, was overpowered and sent to the bottom.
	www.rms-rangitiki.com /Jervis_Bay.htm (308 words)

	Tirpitz battleship art prints (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Second World War art print 'Knights Move' by Robert Taylor depicting the mighty Tirpitz German battleship setting sail from Norway, in company with the battleship Admiral Scheer and Admiral Hipper and an array of flotilla escort vessels, while overhead are Me109s of JG5.
		The German Navy were quick to react, C in C Grand Admiral Raeder increasing U-boat strength in Norwegian waters, and ordering the mighty battleship Tirpitz to Norway, prompting Churchill to say "Tirpitz is the most important naval vessel in the situation today".
		The first RAF attack was mounted on the night of 29/30 January, but the great battleship escaped unscathed.
	www.cranstonfinearts.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /dhm2304.htm (1619 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| World War II Book Reviews \| WWII Book Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		With six 11-inch guns that far outranged anything within the convoy, all Scheer had to do was steam in a lazy circle around its quarry, choosing its targets and blasting one ship after another into the hereafter.
		As Admiral Scheer steamed into view, bearing down on the convoy from the northeast, the British skipper gave two simple commands.
		He was holding the whip hand at the moment, but he knew that it was a big ocean, that he was all alone in it, and that getting damaged by another lucky shot was a real possibility.
	www.historynet.com /wwii/reviews/wwiireview09005-1 (1326 words)

	McCalla dd 263
		The first McCalla (DD-263) was laid down 25 September 1918 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Fore River Plant, Quincy, Mass., launched 18 February 1919; sponsored by Mrs.
		Commissioned as H.H.S. Stanley (I-73) she was designated for service in the Fourth "Town" Flotilla and departed Halifax 1 November.
		At St. John's on the 5th, when the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer attacked a convoy underway for the United Kingdom, sinking six ships, Stanley was dispatched to escort the convoy back to Nova Scotia.
	www.multied.com /navy/destroyer/McCalladd263.html (403 words)

	USS Craven (DD-70) — DANFS History
		She was refitted at Plymouth, England, and ordered to remain there under the command of Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth.
		In February 1942 she joined Rosyth Escort Force, escorting convoys between the Thames and the Firth of Forth, Scotland.
		On 9 and 10 November 1942 she engaged German E-boats which attacked her convoy off Lowestoft.
	www.destroyerhistory.org /flushdeck/usscraven/danfs070.html (482 words)

	Military Heritage Magazine - Column: "Books" Apr 2005
		The 1940 naval engagement pitting the armed merchant cruiser H.M.S. Jervis Bay against the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer was a true David-and-Goliath struggle.
		On November 5, 1940, while halfway across the frigid North Atlantic, convoy HX84 was attacked by the Admiral Scheer, armed with 11-inch and 5.9-inch guns.
		It continued to fire on the Scheer and distracted the German ship for almost three hours before it was sunk.
	www.militaryheritagemagazine.com /2005/apr/col-books.html (3099 words)

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