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SCHARNHORST CLASS BATTLESHIPS

Scharnhorst Class Battleship
The battleship Gneisenau.

The battleships of the Scharnhorst Class were the German response to the French battlecruisers Dunkerque and Strasbourg. The smallest modern battleships built, their main battery consisted of 9 x 28cm guns in three turrets, two forward and one aft. These ships had a very low freeboard and took a lot of seawater forward when steaming a high speeds. The adoption of the atlantic bow didn't do much to improve their seakeeping capability.

Scharnhorst Class
Name Builder Laid Down Launched Commd. Fate
SCHARNHORST Kriegsmarinewerft,
Wilhelmshaven
15.06.1935 03.10.1936 07.01.1939 Sunk after battle
off North Cape
26.12.1943
GNEISENAU Deutsche Werke,
Kiel
06.05.1935 08.12.1936 21.05.1938 Decommissioned
01.07.1942
Scuttled in Gotenhafen
27.03.1945



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