German battleship Scharnhorst | Scharnhorst | SMS | Gerhard von Scharnhorst | ''Scharnhorst'' | SMS Viribus Unitis | SMS Novara (1850) | SMS Goeben | SMS Derfflinger | SMS/800 | SMS ''Viribus Unitis'' | SMS ''Seydlitz'' | SMS Seydlitz | SMS Seeadler (auxiliary cruiser) | SMS Scharnhorst | SMS ''Novara | SMS Novara | SMS language | SMS ''Derfflinger'' | SMS Zenta | SMS ''Vineta'' | SMS ''V29'' | SMS Szent István | SMS ''Seeadler'' | SMS ''Scharnhorst'' (1907) | SMS ''Möwe'' | SMS Kronprinz Wilhelm | SMS ''Kronprinz'' | SMS ''Konigsberg'' | SMS ''Komet'' |
28 cm SK C/34 naval gun : 28 cm 54.5-calibers gun designed in 1934, mounted on Scharnhorst class battleships
The boat fired a four-torpedo salvo, of which two struck, one hitting the SMS Grosser Kurfürst, while the other struck the SMS Kronprinz; both enemy battleships were considerably damaged.
The Germans had suffered unexpectedly small damage and losses: Scharnhorst hit two mines, off Flushing and Ameland, but arrived safely at 10:00 on 13 February at Wilhelmshaven (the damage took three months to repair).
The British guns fired on the German battleships Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen during their 1942 Channel Dash, but were unable to stop them.
Together with 11 other German prisoners of war, he was brought to Sydney on the captured steamer SMS Komet and interned on 29 October in a camp at Holsworthy, New South Wales.
Promoted to Rear Admiral, on Christmas Day, 25 December 1943, Bey led a task force consisting of the battleship Scharnhorst and the Z29, Z30, Z33, Z34 and Z38 out of Alta Fjord in Operation Ostfront.
Pennell was promoted to Commander and assigned to HMS Queen Mary in the summer of 1914, and died 31 May 1916 in the Battle of Jutland, when the ship was sunk by the German ships SMS Seydlitz and SMS Derfflinger.
He was promoted to Leutnant zur See (Second Lieutenant) in 1926 and served on the battleship SMS Elsass.
The battleships Tirpitz, the Scharnhorst were along with nine destroyers sent to Isfjorden where they leveled Barentsburg, Grumant and Longyearbyen.
In 1917, due to the threat posed by German raiders such as SMS Seeadler, Gayundah patrolled off Port Jackson and in the Spencer Gulf, although she made no contact with enemy ships during this time.
She was involved in several actions of the East African campaign including the Battle of Zanzibar, the Raid on Dar es Salaam, blockading SMS Konigsberg in the Rujifi delta, and the Battle of Tanga.
At 10:47, she struck a mine that had been laid by the German auxiliary cruiser SMS Möwe off Cape Wrath.
His task was to work on radar anti-jamming methods; for a year German jamming of Allied radar had been a problem and the escape of two German warships (Scharnhorst and Gneisenau) through the English Channel, aided by enemy radar jamming from the French Coast, had highlighted the problem.
On 12 February 1942 the unit took part in operations over the English Channel during the German Operation Cerberus, when the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau made a high–speed dash from Brest to reach safety in German ports.
In February 1942 Ibel acted as liaison officer with the Kriegsmarine during the famous "Channel Dash" when the Luftwaffe provided effective air cover over the battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau passage through the Channel.
Other notable exhibits include the huge medieval bombard, Pumhart von Steyr, the original shipbuilder's model of the battleship SMS Viribus Unitis, flagship of the Austro-Hungarian naval fleet during World War I, a French observation balloon, the oldest surviving European aircraft, L'Intrépide, and the wreck of SM U-20, an Austro-Hungarian Navy submarine sunk in combat in 1918.
On 12 February it took part in the unsuccessful attempts to intercept the German battleships Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen when they sailed through the Channel, escorting bombers searching for the German squadron.
On 24 July 1941, 4 Group dropped 2,000 lb bombs on the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and helped to keep these battle-cruisers locked in Brest until 12 February 1942.
On 13 June 1872, a German fleet composed of SMS Vineta and SMS Gazelle seized Haitian Navy ships Union and Mont Organisé which were anchored in the port, as a means of pressure to have the Haitian government pay a 20,000 thaler debt to a German businessman.
SMS Scharnhorst (1907), an armored cruiser of World War I, sunk at the Battle of the Falkland Islands
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Scharnhorst, Lower Saxony, a municipality in the district of Celle, Lower Saxony, Germany
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Scharnhorst effect, a hypothetical phenomenon in which light signals travel faster between two closely spaced conducting plates than in a normal vacuum
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Scharnhorst Order, the highest medal awarded to the East German National People's Army
Their best-known action came a few months later, on 12 February 1942, when the light battleships Gneisenau, Scharnhorst and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen attempted the Channel Dash from Brest back to Germany.
SMS V29, a German World War I torpedo boat sunk during the Battle of Jutland
During the battle Repulse briefly engaged two German battleships, SMS Kaiser and SMS Kaiserin.
SMS Goeben, a German battlecruiser renamed Yavuz Selim after she was transferred to the Ottoman Empire, and later simply as Yavuz