Word: lutzow
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...action from torpedo hits by British midget subs. The Scharnhorst's sister, Gneisenau; the so-called "pocket battleship" Admiral Scheer; the heavy cruisers Prinz Eugen and Admiral Hipper-all these have been damaged repeatedly by bombs and torpedoes, are of dubious fighting value. The pocket battleship Lutzow was torpedoed in 1941, but may be fit for service again. Despite the catchy description, she is no battleship, but an armored cruiser of around 12,000 tons. For the rest, aside from a few light cruisers, destroyers and torpedo boats, the German Navy's sole remaining surface threat...
...disabling of the Tirpitz marked the end of the German Fleet as an offensive threat. Since the outbreak of the war the German Fleet has been whittled from 18 major warships to a fighting six. They are: the pocket battleship Lutzow, the 26,000-ton battleship Scharnhorst, the never-in-action aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin, the three light cruisers Nurnberg, Leipzig and Emden...
...commission. This week London announced whereabouts of four Nazi capital ships: at Trondheim, Norway, the 35,000-ton Tirpitz and pocket battleship Admiral Scheer; at Kiel the Scharnhorst, at Gdynia the Gneisenau, both out of action for repairs. Unaccounted for by the British is the 10,000-ton Lutzow, possibly Russia's Baltic victim. Or the Russians hit and misidentified one of the ex-battleships, now training ships Schleswig-Holstein and Schlesien...
...British claimed they had confirmation last week that the battleship Gneisenau had been bombed and definitely crippled as it lay in the harbor of Brest. That left Germany just two battleships (Tirpitz and Scharnhorst} and one pocket battleship (Lutzow or Admiral Scheer) in operation...
...stretch between where their warship escorts from Canada left them and their escorts from Britain would pick them up. None of them was equipped to fight anything except submarines or armed merchantmen of their own size and speed. If a German pocket battleship-the Admiral S cheer or the Lutzow-was indeed among them, the havoc could only be like that of a wolf in a hen roost. For the raider, armored against the merchantmen's light weapons, would have 11-inch guns, aircraft, torpedo tubes and surpassing speed of 26 knots. Unless they could scatter and escape...