The Scharnhorst was discovered on the third day of the Seabed Constructor's search 98 nautical miles southeast of the Falkland Islands at a depth of 1610 meters. The Falklands Maritime Heritage ...

The German squadron consisted of two armored cruisers, SMA Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, the light cruisers, SMS Nurnberg, Dresden and Leipzig and the colliers SS Baden, SS Santa Isabel and SS Seydlitz.