The German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau terrorized Allied shipping with unmatched ferocity while navigating the ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Scharnhorst remained at Kiel for most of 1942. In early 1943, it proceeded to Norway where it operated as part of a “fleet in being” with Prinz Eugen, Tirpitz (the ...

Here's What You Need to Remember: The Scharnhorst class would abide by the basic restrictions of the Washington Naval Treaty, displacing thirty-one thousand tons, carrying nine eleven-inch guns in ...

It’s 1943. The intrepid German battleship Scharnhorst sails through the freezing cold waters of the Barents’ Sea, hoping to ...

Captain Larry Taylor, who has died aged 102, was navigator of the destroyer Savage at the Battle of the North Cape on Boxing Day 1943, and Director of Marine Services after the war. Savage was part of ...

Joseph Stalin last week congratulated Britain’s home fleet on sinking the 26,000-ton German battleship Scharnhorst (see above). Next day, Moscow’s Red Star published a cartoon showing a forlorn ...

The documentary release The War File: Great German Battleships of World War II culls from material including vintage archival footage, interviews with former Nazi officers, and file photographs to ...

Early in World War II, Nazi Germany used its navy to isolate Britain from resupply by sea. Germany capital ships, like the battleship Bismarck, were an important part of that strategy. But it was ...