HMS Glorious, an aging British aircraft carrier, found itself facing certain doom as it steamed across the Norwegian Sea. With just two destroyers, HMS Ardent and HMS Acasta, for escort and no air ...

Scharnhorst and its sister encountered, and avoided, several Royal Navy battleships engaged in convoy escort. The Kriegsmarine planned a massive naval operation for May 1941.

Scharnhorst and its sister encountered, and avoided, several Royal Navy battleships engaged in convoy escort. The Kriegsmarine planned a massive naval operation for May 1941.

In 1940, off Norway, the Scharnhorst and her sister-ship Gneisenau sank the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious and her escort destroyers Acasta and Ardent. 1,519 men were lost from the three ships.

The Scharnhorst was the pride of the German navy, considered unsinkable by her crew. A witness describes how she was trapped and sunk by the Royal Navy in 1943.

A sonar image of the S.M.S. Scharnhorst, which sank in the south Atlantic on December 8, 1914 Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust Maritime archaeologists have located the wreck of the S.M.S ...

The Scharnhorst was turning towards us now, and we were told to stand by ready to engage at 15,000 yards. The Commander then started counting off the yards, i.e. 32,000 yards, 31,000 yards, 30,000 ...

The Scharnhorst was sunk by the Royal Navy during the Battle of the Falkland Islands in December 1914. “This discovery is a major breakthrough in the quest to locate all of the ships that ...