Captain Larry Taylor, who has died aged 102, was navigator of the destroyer Savage at the Battle of the North Cape on Boxing Day 1943, and Director of Marine Services after the war. Savage was part of ...

It was a frigid December night in the Arctic Sea. Aboard the Scharnhorst, the forecast of harsh weather had everyone on edge.

Explore the rise of the Scharnhorst-class battleships, Gneisenau and Scharnhorst, from their engineering under Versailles restrictions to their strategic impact in World War II, sinking over 115,000 ...

A sonar image of the S.M.S. Scharnhorst, which sank in the south Atlantic on December 8, 1914 Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust Maritime archaeologists have located the wreck of the S.M.S. Scharnhorst ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Scharnhorst class would abide by the basic restrictions of the Washington Naval Treaty, displacing thirty-one thousand tons, carrying nine eleven-inch guns in ...

Key point: German battleships never engaged their British peers again in battle. The Scharnhorst was far from the most heavily armed battleship deployed by the Kriegsmarine—but she arguably was its ...