SMS Scharnhorst (1907), an armored cruiser of World War I, sunk at the Battle of the Falkland Islands
The ship was named after the Prussian reformer General Gerhard von Scharnhorst and commissioned into service on 24 October 1907.
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He was serving with the German East Asia Squadron aboard SMS Scharnhorst between 1910 and 1913 and returned to Germany in 1913.