Duke of York ceased firing and Scharnhorst sank at about 19:45. Taylor recalled that out of Scharnhorst’s ship’s company of ...

The Scharnhorst was discovered on the third day ... The site of the wrecks can now be protected. Turrets of the ship. The Battle of the Falklands is commemorated every year on 8 December in ...

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 ...

Her class’s lead ship, the Courageous ... battlecruisers then hastily left the scene without picking up survivors. Scharnhorst limped home, listing at five degrees, and would spend the next ...

SMS Scharnhorst was the flagship of Admiral Maximilian Graf von Spee's East Asia Squadron. The armoured cruiser was sunk during the Battle of the Falkland Islands, a crucial naval battle in the ...

Taylor recalled that out of Scharnhorst’s ship’s company of nearly 2,000 people there were only 36 survivors who were plucked from the icy sea. The battle was the last between British and ...