Scharnhorst was a German capital ship, alternatively described as a battleship or battlecruiser, of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine.She was the lead ship of her class, which included one other ship, Gneisenau.

Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Blucher, Coln, Ariadne - German cruisers sunk by British Battlecruisers. Jutland saw Lutzow sunk in exchange for Invincible, Indefatigable and Queen Mary . The British got it right in terms of what battlecruisers were intended to d

Clip 9 - Scharnhorst remains - underwater photography of what is left of Scharnhorst at the bottom of the Barents Sea. Scharnhorst sailed from Langfiord in Norway with five destroyers on the afternoon of Christmas Day to attack convoy JW55B which had been