Word: scharnhorst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...torpedo did not, however, sink the Scharnhorst, which was last reported near Trondheim, Norway (TIME, March...
...brought up until the periscope standards were awash. The heavy seas made her too lively. Tons of extra ballast had to be shipped to prevent her from breaking surface. The Clyde maneuvered, got around the destroyer, came "face to face" with one of the enemy. It was the Scharnhorst. The Clyde steadied. The order to fire was given. The men waited - it seemed longer than the 15 days and nights of skulking - for two minutes and 55 seconds before they heard an explosion...
Although his first interest and his chief strength was in submarines, Grand Admiral Doenitz also had a surface fleet which he might use to lend his spring campaign additional punch: the 40,000-plus-ton battleship Tirpitz, the 26,000-ton Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, a screen of lighter ships including two pocket battleships, the Admiral Scheer and Lützow, two 10,000-ton cruisers of the heavily armed Admiral Hipper class, and perhaps ten destroyers...
...most, the German fleet in Norway consists of the 35,000-ton battleship Tirpitz, sister of the Bismarck, which was destroyed on its long dash out of Bergen two years ago; the 26,000-ton Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, repaired after their successful run through the Channel last year; the pocket battleships Admiral Scheer and Lützow; two 10,000-ton cruisers of the Hipper class; and perhaps ten destroyers...