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	German Navy Ships--Scharnhorst (1939-1943)
		In a three-hour battle in the frigid Arctic seas, the German battleship was battered by gunfire and sunk by torpedoes.
		Scharnhorst's wreck was located and photographed by a Norwegian Navy underwater exploration group in the year 2000.
		German battleship Scharnhorst firing her forward 283mm guns, during the engagement with the British aircraft carrier Glorious and her escorts, 8 June 1940.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-fornv/germany/gersh-s/scharn2.htm (837 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 armament of the Scharnhorst 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.
		Scharnhorsts days on the high seas came to an end, during the Battle of the North Cape, on December 26th 1943 at 1945 hrs when she was sunk by the Royal Navy with the loss of 1,932 lives.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /archie_bombercommand/battleshipsandg.html (946 words)

	German , Nurnberg, Lutzow, Admiral Hipper, Graf Spee, Scheer, Tirpitz, Bismarck, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Graf, ...
		Battleship “Warspite” and nine destroyers were sent into the Narvik fiords to finish off the remaining German ships.
		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.
		illuminated "Scharnhorst" with starshell and Adm Burnett's cruisers
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsGermanWarships.htm (6940 words)

	German battlecruiser Scharnhorst - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Her armour was equal to that of a battleship and if it hadn't been for her relatively small-calibre guns she would have been classified as a battleship by the British.
		Scharnhorst's nine 280 mm (11 inch), main guns, though possessing long range and quite good armor-penetration power because of their high muzzle velocity, were no match for the 380 mm (15 inch) guns of most of the battleships of her day, particularly with the flooding and technical problems that were experienced.
		Scharnhorst's first wartime operation was a sweep into the Iceland-Faroes passage in late November 1939 with Gneisenau in which she sank the British Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS Rawalpindi.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/German_battlecruiser_Scharnhorst (1809 words)

	TREATY BATTLESHIPS
		German naval rearmament after World War I was constrained by the Treaty of Versailles, which initially limited German battleships to 10,000 tons and 11 inch main battery guns.
		Scharnhorst's lookouts spotted the pair of destroyers to port, and she engaged them with her secondary battery, but the starboard pair got to within one mile before being spotted, and put a torpedo into her.
		All of the treaty battleships were heavily compromised to a greater or lessor extent by the need to at least nominally conform to the limitations of the various international naval arms limitation treaties.
	www.chuckhawks.com /treaty_battleships.htm (11483 words)

	The Battle-Cruiser Scharnhorst
		Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were something of a legend to us, and here we were, racing to attack them, in broad daylight!" Pumphrey had taken command of 221 as his own MTB was in dock and the commander of 221 had been ashore at the Stores, there had been no time to find him.
		German intelligence had a wealth of intelligence on their hands but little was conveyed to Bey warning him of the closing of the British net, or of the capital ships about him.
		Scharnhorst fired upon them when they were within 8000 yards, but as her 105mm guns were stood down she lacked proper anti destroyer armament.
	www.mikekemble.com /ww2/scharnhorst.html (10110 words)

	Murmansk
		The battleships Tirpitz and Scharnhorst and the battlecruisers Admiral Scheer and Admiral Hipper were a force in being that, while never attaining its potential for destruction on the convoy routes, did serve effectively to tie down a powerful segment of the British Home Fleet through a good part of the war.
		The German battleship Scharnhorst, which had lurked in Norwegian fjords for years threatening convoys, was finally lured to her destruction off the north coast of Norway in December of 1943.
		This mighty battleship was screening both northbound convoy JW55B and southbound convoy BA55A, one or both of which, in the opinion of the Admiralty, would be spotted by German submarine or air reconnaissance and would be too tempting, under conditions of the winter Arctic darkness, for the Germans to resist.
	www.armed-guard.com /ag79.html (7676 words)

	Simon Atack - Escort for the Scharnhorst
		When the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau entered Brest in March, 1941, between them they had sunk a total of 22 ships during their North Atlantic operations.
		Scharnhorst led the flotilla in a daring passage through the English Channel, heading for the sanctuary of Wilhelmshaven.
		On 26 December 1943 the huge battleship attacked a convoy off North Cape, but in the heavy seas Scharnhorst became detached from her destroyer escort.
	www.aviatorart.com /atack/escort.htm (298 words)

	TIME.com: Death off the Nordkapp -- Jan. 3, 1944 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It was the 26,000-ton German battleship Scharnhorst, sniffing delicately with her intricate detector apparatus, pricking up her mechanical ears, hunting hungrily for a fat Allied convoy on the long haul to Murmansk with materiel for the Red Army.
		The defeat virtually bankrupted the studied German policy of "the fleet in being"—a cautious hoarding of potential naval strength in safe Baltic or Norwegian bases, thus restricting the movements of Allied naval units nearly four times as strong, which had to be held near by to meet sudden sea raids.
		The Scharnhorst's sister, Gneisenau; the so-called "pocket battleship" Admiral Scheer; the heavy cruisers Prinz Eugen and Admiral Hipper—all these have been damaged repeatedly by bombs and torpedoes, are of dubious fighting value.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,885313-1,00.html (772 words)

	Battleship Scharnhorst
		However, as a result of the strict conditions imposed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles, the early ships were overdeveloped in terms of speed and poor in terms of stability.
		The battleship "Scharnhorst" and her sister ship "Gneisenau" heralded the first large German warships since 1918.
		Her most legendary exploit was, together with her sister ship the "Gneisenau", and the heavy cruiser "Prinz Eugen", the breakthrough of the Channel in 1942 (Operation Cerberus).
	www.germancinema.com /batschar.html (262 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Light cruiser HMS Jamaica of the Fiji class
		In December the cruiser was a unit of the distant Covering Forces for an Arctic convoy, with the battleship HMS Duke of York and four destroyers.
		On 30 December 1942 the German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper attacked convoy JW.51B and was held at bay by the British destroyers HMS Onslow, HMS Obedient, HMS Obdurate and HMS Orwell.
		Assisted the British battleship HMS Duke of York, and other vessels in the sinking of the German battleship Scharnhorst on 26 December 1943.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/4033.html (1405 words)

	Norwegians Find Sunken WWII Warship
		OSLO, Norway –– The wreck of the German battleship Scharnhorst has been found in arctic waters more than a half-century after it was sunk by Allied warships in World War II.
		The 32,000-ton Scharnhorst was sunk off Norway on Dec. 16, 1943, by an Allied fleet led by the British battleship HMS Duke of York.
		The Scharnhorst was based in German-occupied northern Norway as part of a fleet that preyed on Allied warships and freighters bringing supplies to the Russian port of Murmansk.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/aponline/20001003/aponline130832_000.htm (210 words)

	Warship Pictures
		American battleship USS Oklahoma in the years before the attack on Pearl Harbor, where she was struck by multiple torpedoes and capsized in 11 minutes.
		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).
		German Battleship RM Bismark during acceptance trials in August, 1940 (photo by Blohm and Voss Shipyard).
	www.chuckhawks.com /warship_pictures.htm (811 words)

	KBismarck.com - Battleship Scharnhorst
		Together with the battleship Tirpitz, and the destroyers Z-27, Z-29, Z-30, Z-31, Z-33, Erich Steinbrinck, Karl Galster, Hans Lody and Theodor Riedel, leaves Altenfiord under the command of Admiral Kummetz, to attack the allied installations in the island of Spitzbergen.
		At 1617, the battleship Duke of York of Force II (Admiral Fraser) obtains radar contact with Scharnhorst from 42,500 meters (46,480 yards), and after closing the range to 10,900 meters (11,920 yards) opens fire at 1648.
		Scharnhorst is repeatedly hit but manages to increase the distance with "force II" to 19,600 meters (21,435 yards).
	www.kbismarck.com /scharnhorst.html (1687 words)

	Scharnhorst Geman Batle cruiser
		In March 1943 the Scharnhorst was transferred to Northern Norway to continue her commerce raiding on Allied shipping, But on the 26th December 1943, while attempting to intercept convoy JW-55B.
		Admiral Ciliaxs mighty Scharnhorst leads her sister Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen up the English Channel during Operation Cerberus, their daring breakout from the port of Brest on the French Atlantic coast to the relative safety of Wilhelmshaven and Brunsbuttel.
		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.naval-art.com /scharnhorst.htm (1503 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Derbyshire \| Veterans befriend German survivors
		Almost 2,000 German sailors died in December 1943 when the British Navy sank the German battleship Scharnhorst in the sea north of Norway.
		German survivor Helmut Feifer said: "I was swimming but I thought it was the last moment of my life.
		The British men recently travelled to a park in Wilhelmshaven, the Scharnhorst's home port in northern Germany, to meet the survivors and attend a ceremony to honour the war dead.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/derbyshire/3261873.stm (338 words)

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	Lost Battalion Games : Features : Old Salt's Journal : The Ships of Battlegroup : Great ...
		Designed to form the Fifth or Fast Battleship Squadron (the speed as originally built was 24 knots, quite fast for a battleship at the time) of the Grand Fleet, the squadron (minus Queen Elizabeth herself, in a dockyard at the time) was on loan to Admiral Beatty’s Battlecruiser Fleet for the Battle of Jutland.
		In 1940, in a Norwegian fjord, she served as a base of fire in the destruction of a trapped German destroyer flotilla.
		Warspite also stands in a virtual dead heat tie with the German battleship Scharnhorst for the record of the longest naval gunfire hit on a moving target.
	www.lostbattalion.com /t-bg_warspite.aspx (585 words)

	Radio Controlled Battleship Bismarck
		With the Scharnhorst in dry dock and the Tirpitz not ready for action yet, the Bismarck and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen would be sent to the North Atlantic at the end of April under the command of the Fleet Chief.
		We also have to take in consideration that this could be the last opportunity for German ships to reach the Atlantic and have some freedom of movement, since the war with the United States would have to come some day and then this task would be much more difficult if not impossible.
		The departure of the German ships was imminent, but on 23 April, a magnetic mine exploded near the Prinz Eugen while on her way to Kiel, and because of the repair work the operation was delayed for some days.
	www.totalnavy.com /radiobism.htm (1105 words)

	REVELL 1/570 German Battleship Scharnhorst: RVL05037
		From 22 January to 23 March 1941 she operated with the Gneisenau in the trade war in the Atlantic (22 British merchant vessels were sunk).
		Together with 5 destroyers she left port on 26.12.1943 to attack a convoy but was intercepted by the battleships Belfast and Duke of York.
		During the three-hour battle the Scharnhorst was hit by 13 shells and 11 torpedos and sank with 1803 men on board.
	www.worldwar2aces.com /store/rvl05037.shtml (198 words)

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	News story
		No one knew exactly where the ship went down, but Mr Wass, who was responsible for decoding messages and relaying a commentary throughout the battle, brought a copy of the ship's log home from the war, and this was used to set the record straight.
		He is in contact with some of the German survivors he helped pull from the water amid the dense smoke and the oil slick surrounding the sinking ship.
		He has a shield from the Scharnhorst Association in recognition of his involvement in the rescue, and four British and four foreign medals for Royal Navy duties.
	www.newarkadvertiser.co.uk /features/2001/scharnhorst.htm (933 words)

	Scharnhorst
		The Scharnhorst is pictured in 1939 when she and her sister ship Gneisenau menacingly prowled the North Atlantic.
		soon after the Scharnhorst was engaged by the Battleship HMS Duke of York along with the cruisers and was sunk with the loss of 1,803 crew (she had been hit by a number of shells and 14 torpedoes.
		Her top speed was 31 knots and she had an armament of Nine 11-inch guns and Twelve 6-inch guns, with a secondary armament of fourteen 4-inch guns and sixteen 1.5 inch AA Guns, she also carried 6 Torpedo Tubes.
	www.military-art.com /dhm1004.htm (855 words)

	German Navy Ships--Scharnhorst (1939-1943) -- Overall Views
		In a German port with her crew manning the rail, circa late 1939, after she had been fitted with a "clipper" bow.
		This is a halftone image, clipped by the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence from the contemporary German booklet "Deutsche Seemacht".
		The battleship Scharnhorst is in the left distance.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-fornv/germany/gersh-s/scharn2a.htm (534 words)

	Battleship Tirpitz, Battleship Scharnhorst
		Commissioned in February 1941, she operated in the Baltic during her first several months of service, conducting trials and training, as well as combat missions in connection with the invasion of the Soviet Union.
		In February 1944, while she was under repair, the German battleship was the target of a raid by Soviet bombers that produced one near-miss.
		The Royal Navy cruisers Belfast, Norfolk and Sheffield effectively kept Scharnhorst away from the convoy until the reinforcements arrived.
	www.battle-fleet.com /pw/his/schsa.htm (799 words)

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		A brilliant Soviet commander, Vlasov was captured by the German Wehrmacht in July, 1942, and soon became central to the campaign by junior German officers to launch a Russian Liberation Army (usually referred to as the ROA) against Stalin's regime.
		The views of Vlasov's German backers are represented by Hans von Herwath, Robert Krötz, and Helmuth Schwenninger, while William Sloane Coffin, Arthur Cowgill, Frank Roberts, and Tom Dennis comment upon the U.S.-British supervised repatriation of Vlasov's surviving troops to the Soviet Union in 1945.
	www.germanvideo.com /war/war_desc_s-z.html (2719 words)

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