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	German battlecruiser Gneisenau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gneisenau was originalled called Armored Ship 'E', was at first to be a unit of the Deutschland class pocket battleship.
		She carried a main armor belt of nearly 350 mm (13.78 in), comparable to modern battleships of the time, and vastly heavier than the British battlecruisers HMS Renown and HMS Repulse, ships which would have been her equal in main battery as designed, and the French battlecruisers Dunkerque and Strasbourg.
		She was torpedoed again in April 1941, and hit by 4 bombs in Brest on the night of 9-10 April, and was repaired at Brest in France through December, 1941.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/German_battleship_Gneisenau (840 words)

	Battleship -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		From 1870 to 1890 battleship design was in a wildly experimental phase, as different navies experimented with different turret arrangements, sizes and numbers, with each new design rendering the previous ones largely obsolete overnight.
		As far as the German sailors were concerned, they were undefeated; it was felt that their ships should not fall into the hands of the British.
		The ships, while comparatively big for a cruiser, are not battleships; they adhere to the design premise of a large missile (A large fast warship; smaller than a battleship and larger than a destroyer) cruiser and lack traditional battleship traits such as heavy armor and signigicant shore bombardment capability.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/battleship.htm (4473 words)

	Heller 1/400 Gneisenau
		German Admiral Raeder's Plan-Z was Germany's blueprint to rearm, and battleships were a major part of this.
		The Germans knew of the presence of the British carriers from Luftwaffe reports.
		The Rawalpindi was a British escort that was guarding a convoy that the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau attacked.
	www.internetmodeler.com /2000/may/ships/gneisenau.htm (2470 words)

	Battleship: Gneisenau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The ships ammunitions were not discharged and as a result, a direct bomb hit made an end to the career of Gneisenau.
		The wreck of Gneisenau was finally in 27th of March 1945 towed to the harbour of Gotenhafen and sunk to block the entrance to the harbour.
		The remains of the hull was lifted from the harbour in 1951 and scrapped immediately.
	www.silentwall.com /GermanWarshipsPicture1.html (85 words)

	Archie - A Pilot in RAF Bomber Command - Scharnhorst and Gneisenau
		The German Battleship Scharnhorst was built at Marinewerft (renamed Kreigsmarinewerft in 1935) in Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
		The Gneisenau was commissioned on 21st May 1938 and was placed under the Captaincy of Erich Förste, commencing sea trials and training until August when she was sent to the North Atlantic for battle training until November 1938.
		The armament of the Gneisenau consisted of nine main 28.3 cm (11.1") guns which were mounted in three triple turrets and a secondary armament comprising eight 15 cm (5.9") guns housed in twin turrets and four 15 cm (5.9") guns which were single mounted.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /archie_bombercommand/battleshipsandg.html (946 words)

	Warship Pictures
		Battleship USS Wisconsin on builders trials, 1988 (Photo by Ingalls Shipbuilding as it appeared in the "Wisconsin Homepage") Scanned and contributed by Mike Green.
		The German battleship Gneisenau as she would have looked after being re-armed with six 15 inch main battery guns in three twin turrets (drawing from "Von der Emden zur Tirpitz" Bernard and Graefe Verlag, Bonn).
		The battleship HMS King George V in 1941, the year she engaged the Bismarck (photograph courtesy of the Imperial War Museum).
	www.chuckhawks.com /warship_pictures.htm (779 words)

	German battleship Scharnhorst (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Scharnhorst was a 31,100 ton Gneisenau class battleship of the German Kriegsmarine, named to commemorate the World War I armoured cruiser SMS Scharnhorst, which was in turn named after the Prussian general Gerhard von Scharnhorst
		The German escorting destroyers returned to their base, while Scharnhorst was cut off by the Battle group headed by the British battleship Duke of York and her escorting cruisers and destroyers.
		In a three-hour battle in the frigid Arctic seas north of North Cape, the German battleship was battered by gunfire and sunk by 12 torpedoes.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/G/German-battleship-Scharnhorst.htm (662 words)

	DKM Scharnhorst
		She was further damaged by a bomb a few days later and was under repair for most of the rest of 1940.
		Realizing the futility of their mission, the Germans attempted to return to their base, but Scharnhorst was cut off by the British battleship Duke of York and her escorting cruisers and destroyers.
		In a three-hour battle in the frigid Arctic seas, the German battleship was battered by gunfire and sunk by torpedoes.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/d/dk/dkm_scharnhorst.html (625 words)

	Gdynia - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		ɲia], Kashubian Gdiniô; German name until 1939 Gdingen, 1939-45 Gotenhafen) is a city in the Pomeranian Voivodship of Poland and an important seaport at Gdansk Bay on the south coast of the Baltic Sea.
		At the Partitions of Poland of 1772 it was annexed into the Kingdom of Prussia (1772–1919), and as part of Prussia became part of the German Empire (1870–1919).
		The seaport was largely destroyed by the withdrawing German troops in 1945 (90% of the buildings and equipment were destroyed) and the harbour entrance was blocked by the German battleship Gneisenau.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Gdynia (1504 words)

	Gneisenau
		The Gneisenau sister ship to the Scharnhorst, was a Battlecruiser, Built in 1938, with a compliment of 1800.
		Her top speed was 31 knots and she had an armament of 9 11-inch guns and 12 6-inch guns, with a secondary armament of 14 4-inch guns and 16 1.5inch AA Guns, she also carried 6 Torpedo Tubes.
		Although all the aircraft were lost and no significant damage was done to the German fleet, all the pilots were decorated for their bravery and Lt-Cdr Esmonde received the first Fleet Air Arm VC to be awarded, albeit posthumously.
	www.kriegsmarineart.com /gneisenau.htm (827 words)

	The Diary of George Shaker - Veterans Affairs Canada
		A seaplane suddenly appeared and dropped a surrender demand from the German battleship "Gneisenau", a distant dot on the horizon.
		While George was trying to send of a distress signal about the attack on their ship, the German radio man had tapped happy birthday in Spanish in an attempt to camouflage George's message.
		Camp loudspeakers proclaim the sinking of the "HMS Hood" and claim that German forces are nearing Winnipeg.
	www.vac-acc.gc.ca /youth/sub.cfm?source=history/secondwar/diary/gshaker (626 words)

	Battleship Bismarck, Tirpitz, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Bismark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On the morning of 27 May Admiral Tovey manoeuvred his squadron so that it would approach the Bismarck from the west and have the target silhouetted by the morning light.
		The battleships, King George V and Rodney, sailed in line abreast about 550 meter (600 yards) apart toward the last reported position of the enemy.
		At 0912 - 1016, the Battleship Bismarck received multiple hits at point blank range between 2,500 (2,700 yards) and 4,000 meters (4,400 yards), but was still afloat.
	www.battleshiparchive.com (442 words)

	MKB Örlandet
		The town's harbour was an important base for German subs, with two submarine bunkers, one of them not finished by the end of the war.
		All the houses and buildings in the area around the battery were evaquated when the guns were to be fired, for the vibrations and air pressure from the three guns being fired simultainously caused windows to blow in, and poor constructions to collapse.
		Turret "Caesar" at MKB Örlandet is today the only remaining part of the German battleship, and an important monument for later generations.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/lexington/12/fortresses/soertroendelag/oerlandet.htm (615 words)

	German Navy Ships--Scharnhorst (1939-1943) -- Overall Views
		In a German port, circa spring or early summer 1939, after Gneisenau had been refitted with a "clipper" bow, but before Scharnhorst had been similarly fitted.
		In a German port with her crew manning the rail, circa late 1939, after she had been fitted with a "clipper" bow.
		The battleship Scharnhorst is in the left distance.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-fornv/germany/gersh-s/scharn2a.htm (534 words)

	Tamiya America Item #77520 \| German Gneisenau Battleship Kt - CP120 (31802)
		Ranking with the Scharnhorst, she was the biggest and most powerful battleship in the German Fleet of those days.
		Her displacement had been announced to be 26,000 tons, but in fact her standard displacement was 31,800 tons.
		She was protected with strong armour and, in spite of her large displacement, had a speed of 32 knots.
	www.tamiyausa.com /product/item.php?product-id=77520 (163 words)

	Links
		SK C/34 gun turret, turret "Caesar", from the German battleship Gneisenau.
		The turret is the only part of Gneisenau's structure that remains in the world, apart from the armoured shield of turret "Bruno" at MKB Fjell west of Bergen, which still lies next to the turretshaft, cut up in big pieces.
		The pictures are probably from the late sixties, and from before the turret unfortunately was cut to scrap in 1968.
	victorian.fortunecity.com /lexington/12/links.htm (582 words)

	German battleship Gneisenau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		She was broken up and scrapped after the war.
		Even though ships such as Gneisenau were designed to commit acts of destruction in war, there is no doubt that she carried a certain sense of dignity, power and beauty, which can be appreciated for its own sake.
		Many decades after her death, she and her sister are still discussed, admired and debated over.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/G/German-battleship-Gneisenau.htm (784 words)

	1/700 German Gneisenau Battleship (tam77520) Tamiya Plastic Model Ship Military
		This is a 1/700 Scale Gneisenau German Battlecruiser Plastic Model Kit from the Water Line Series by Tamiya.
		The battle cruiser Gneisenau, which sailed about the Atlantic Ocean at a high speed of up to 32 knots with her sister ship Scharnhorst and rendered distinguised services, had the most brilliant career of all the capital ships of the German Navy.
		It may safely be said that their well-proportioned shape ranked second to no other battleships of the world.
	www.hobbylinc.com /htm/tam/tam77520.htm (292 words)

	Sgt R Critchley, part two
		On the 13th June 1941 he was part of an all volunteer crew led by P/O Anderson, a New Zealander, which took part in an extremely dangerous glide bombing night attack against German warships and port facilities at Brest.
		On the 24th July 1941 Ronald was wireless operator in the crew led by Sgt J S Bucknole which was to take part in a daylight attack on the German battleship Gneisenau in Brest harbour.
		Flak and fighters very heavily defended the target and this was a very dangerous operation for the crews in their slow and poorly armed Wellingtons which were to make their attack from 15000 feet.
	elshamwolds.50g.com /critchley2.html (556 words)

	1/700 German Heavy Cruiser (tam31805) Tamiya Plastic Model Ship Military
		On this mission she joined forces with the Battleship Bismarck to help sink the British Battle Cruiser Hood and inflict considerable damage on the British Battleship Prince of Wales.
		In February of 1942, the Prinz Eugen, together with the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau left their docks at Brest for Norway on an unexpected dash through the British Channel, in broad daylight.
		After arriving safely in German waters, Prinz Eugen was active in the strategic withdrawal from the Russian front, firing thousands of shells at encroaching Russian forces when she provided support for evacuation ships carrying German troops and civilians.
	www.hobbylinc.com /htm/tam/tam31805.htm (785 words)

	Archie - A Pilot in RAF Bomber Command - Air Raid on Scharnhorst and Gneisenau 1941
		On the morning of 18th December 1941, the following six aircraft and crews from 35 Squadron took part in a daylight raid against the German Battleships, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in Brest Harbour along with five aircraft from 10 Squadron and six from 76 Squadron.
		Some bombs seen to fall in water south of dock in which Gneisenau was berthed and some in quay between torpedo boat station and No.1 dry dock.
		As the 35 Squadron Halifax aircraft were withdrawing from the target area the Manchester formations were approaching the enemy coast in close formation.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /archie_bombercommand/raidonscharnhorstandgneisenau.html (1140 words)

	Gdynia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		ɲia], German Gdingen or Gotenhafen, Kashubian Gdiniô) is a city in the Pomeranian Voivodship of Poland and an important seaport at Gdansk Bay on the south coast of the Baltic Sea.
		After World War I it was assigned as part of the Polish Pomerania to Poland (1919–1945), and was reannexed by Germany at the start of World War II in 1939.
		The seaport was largely destroyed by the withdrawing German troops in 1945 (90% of the buildings and equipment were destroyed) and the harbour entrance was blocked by the German battlecruiser Gneisenau.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/G/Gdynia.htm (1571 words)

	Foxhole radio - Bizarre Labs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Robert Durant was an apprentice (officer cadet) on the Simnia, 6197 tons, owned by the Anglo Saxon Petroleum Co. She was sunk by the German Battleship the Gneisenau on 15/March/41 between 8 & 17 (accounts vary) survivors ended up in MILAG.
		There was one main radio, a German Peoples Radio, that by decree had only a fixed bandwidth to prevent the German population tuning to Allied propaganda.
		A map, updated from the radio reports, showing the progress of the Allied forces after D day was kept pinned behind the door of one room where the German guards never thought to look.
	bizarrelabs.com /foxhol14.htm (903 words)

	Gneisenau greatness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Gneisenau Neihardt was Nebraska's Poet Laureate for fifty-two years.
		Schlachtschiff Bismarck, Tirpitz, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau und andere Schiffe der Kriegsmarine, mit Fotogalerien und technischen Daten.
		Gneisenau was originalled called Armored Ship 'E', was at first to be a unit of
	www.thingsthatstartwithg.com /gneisenau.html (235 words)

	December 1997 newsletter - Durban - South African Military History Society - Title page
		Apparently, P/O Kenneth Campbell was the sole survivor of an ill-fated flight of Beaufort torpedo bombers that had been detailed to attack the German battleship, "Gneisenau" in the French port of Brest.
		Unfortunately, his aircraft was shot down immediately afterwards with no survivors and as there were no British witnesses, it took almost a year for the British authorities to get confirmation by the French Resistance of this incredible act of bravery.
		It is significant that the German Navy mounted a Guard of Honour for their funeral as a mark of respect.
	rapidttp.com /milhist/97/d97decne.html (1101 words)

	Naval Science - What's Been Published - Alphabetically by Title Beginning: T
		Siegfried Breyer ; [translated from the German by Edward Force].
		The German naval officer corps a social and political history, 1890-1918
		The grand scuttle : the sinking of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919
	www.pitbossannie.com /ti-v-t-page05.html (964 words)

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