The German battlecruisers then hastily left the scene without picking up survivors. Scharnhorst limped home, listing at five degrees, and would spend the next six months in Trondheim, Norway ...

Taylor recalled that out of Scharnhorst’s ship’s company of nearly 2,000 people there were only 36 survivors who were plucked from the icy sea. The battle was the last between British and ...

SMS Scharnhorst was named after the chief of the Prussian general staff during the Napoleonic Wars The wreck of a World War One German armoured cruiser has been located off the Falkland Islands ...

SMS Scharnhorst was the flagship of Admiral Maximilian Graf von Spee's East Asia Squadron. The armoured cruiser was sunk during the Battle of the Falkland Islands, a crucial naval battle in the ...