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Ships · Germany · 1938-1943

Scharnhorst-class battleship

battleship

Fast but under-gunned with only 28cm main guns, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau raided Allied Atlantic shipping and famously dashed through the English Channel in daylight in 1942. Scharnhorst was sunk at the Battle of the North Cape in December 1943 after intercepting an Arctic convoy.

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displacement32,600 tonnes (standard), 38,700 full load
main armament9x 28cm guns
speed31 knots
built2

Battle of the Atlantic

Scharnhorst-class battleship
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For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Schlachtschiff "Gneisenau" Schlachtschiff "Gneisenau"
For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Schlachtschiff "Gneisenau" Schlachtschiff "Gneisenau"UnknownUnknown · CC BY-SA 3.0 de · source
For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Schlachtschiff "Scharnhorst" Schlachtschiff "Scharnhorst"
For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Schlachtschiff "Scharnhorst" Schlachtschiff "Scharnhorst"Klein, A. · CC BY-SA 3.0 de · source