Tony Ditcham, who had a grandstand view of the Royal Navy's last great battleship action, has died at the age of 102.

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 ...

How German Battleships Defeated a British Aircraft ... worst threat conceivable—the German battlecruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhorst. Only a few dozen would survive one of the most controversial ...

Mensun Bound, the leader of the search, said: “It is with mixed emotions that we announce the discovery of SMS Scharnhorst, the armoured German battle-cruiser that was sunk during the Battle of ...

HMS Canopus was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy missed ... were to locate Admiral Graf von Spee’s flagship, the Scharnhorst, and her sister ship, the Gneisenau, and then to ...

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 ...

Their target was the German battleship Tripitz ... raid in 1941 that would involve both Bismarck-class battleships and the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. But Scharnhorst and Gneisenau ...

German U-boats were already very effective ... To maximize damage, the raid was to include Germany's four best capital ships: battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, which were sister ships ...