The service took place at the site of the newly-discovered wreck of the German armoured cruiser, 92 nautical ... life along with his 800 men when SMS Scharnhorst was lost during the First World ...
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.