The armoured cruiser played a key role in the Battle of Coronel ... Invincible and HMS Inflexible inflicted substantial damage on SMS Scharnhorst, causing it to sink with all 860 people on ...

Scharnhorst limped home, listing at five degrees, and would spend the next six months in Trondheim, Norway undergoing repairs. The Royal Navy apparently remained unaware of the battle and made no ...

The Scharnhorst, an armoured battle-cruiser and the flagship of Admiral Maximilian Graf von Spee’s East Asia Squadron, was sunk on 8 December 1914 during the Battle of the Falkland Islands ...

This convoy was expected to reach Bear Island on Christmas Day about the same time as the homeward bound Convoy RA 55A, when the Admiralty signalled that the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst was ...