Word: scharnhorst
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...engagement with superior heavy English naval units the battleship Scharnhorst, firing until her last round of ammunition was spent, sank after a heroic battle. . . . Considerable damage was inflicted on the convoy and the English escort units...
Neither side said a word of survivors (the Scharnhorst normally carried...
...Scharnhorst was sunk this evening off the North Cape...
...policy of "the fleet in being"-a cautious hoarding of potential naval strength in safe Baltic or Norwegian bases, thus restricting the movements of Allied naval units nearly four times as strong, which had to be held near by to meet sudden sea raids. Allied tallies indicated that the Scharnhorst must have been the only German capital ship in fighting trim when she made her dash to the north. The fact that she was thrown away on a convoy-raiding mission was of itself a revealing indication of growing desperation, of strain under pressure, of failing submarine and air power...
...other major German warships, the 41,000-ton battleship Tirpitz (sister of the lost Bismarck) is still out of 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...