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As Scharnhorst had turned towards Glorious immediately upon her sighting, without waiting for an explicit instruction from Marschall aboard Gneisenau, Scharnhorst was well ahead of Gneisenau and opened fire first at 17:32 with a salvo from her forward turrets at a distance of 26 km (14 nmi; 16 mi) [c] After 52 seconds the salvo fell short and ...
Gneisenau scored two hits on Renown; the first failed to explode and the second exploded on her upper deck and damaged the radio equipment. Gneisenau and Scharnhorst then turned to disengage. [23] Almost simultaneously, two of Renown ' s 15 in (38 cm) shells struck Gneisenau. One shell hit the director tower and passed through it without ...
By 18:26 the range had fallen to 24,100 m (26,400 yd; 15.0 mi), and Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were firing full salvos at the carrier. [42] After approximately an hour of shooting, the German battleships sent Glorious to the bottom. [41] They also sank the two destroyers. As Acasta sank, one of the four torpedoes she had fired hit Scharnhorst at ...
The first capital ships of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine, it comprised two vessels: Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. Scharnhorst was launched first, [1] and is considered to be the lead ship by some sources; they are also referred to as the Gneisenau class in some other sources, [2] as Gneisenau was the first to be laid down and commissioned. [1]
Scharnhorst and Gneisenau sailed again from Kiel at 4:00 am on 22 January 1941. They proceeded north and passed through the Great Belt island chain in German-controlled Denmark that morning. [ 37 ] This exposed the battleships to Allied agents on the shore, but was necessary as the waterway was covered in ice 30 centimetres (12 in) thick. [ 38 ]
Admiral Spee and his two sons were among the German dead. Two hundred and fifteen Germans became prisoners on the British ships. Most were from the Gneisenau, with nine from Nürnberg and 18 from Leipzig. Scharnhorst was lost with all hands. One of Gneisenau ' s officers who lived had been the sole survivor on three different guns on the ...
The Channel Dash (German: Unternehmen Zerberus, Operation Cerberus) was a German naval operation during the Second World War. [a] A Kriegsmarine (German Navy) squadron comprising two Scharnhorst-class battleships, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen and their escorts was evacuated from Brest in Brittany to German ports.
Gneisenau also struck a mine at 18:55 GMT. [33] Both ships recovered and steamed on. Scharnhorst had been stopped dead in the water with engine damage after the first hit. The failure to alert Bomber Command earlier meant a chance was missed to deliver an attack on Scharnhorst when it was most vulnerable. The second and third mine hits came ...