During the battle the Scharnhorst's guns were gradually disabled, one by one On 26 December 1943 one of the great sea battles of World War II took place. Germany's most famous battleship - the ...

Gerhard von Scharnhorst, who came from a family of small farmers in Lower Saxony, embarked on a military career and became an important Prussian general. Together with Baron vom Stein, he reformed the ...

Scharnhorst was Germany's first attempt at building warships that could rival the naval supremacy of British and French battlecruisers. Still, it was built under the restrictions of the Washington ...

As far as I can give it, this is the account of the battle between the battle-cruiser “Sharnhost” (26,000 tons) and ships of the Home Fleet consisting of “Duke of York” battleship, “Jamaica”, “Belfast ...