German Ship Sunk During WWI Found Off Falkland Islands Archaeologists started searching for the “Scharnhorst” on the centenary of the 1914 battle ...

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 ...

The Scharnhorst tried to attack the convoy twice but was driven off by the 10th Cruiser Squadron, which had been ordered to position itself between the battle-cruiser and the convoy.

The Scharnhorst was far from the most heavily armed battleship deployed by the Kriegsmarine—but she arguably was its most successful. She and sistership Gneisenau were laid down in 1935 with ...

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.

Starting with Scharnhorst, reaching its zenith with the profundities (and obscurities) of Clausewitz, German military thought was further influenced by the elder Moltke and reached a dead end in the ...

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 ...