Summary and Key Points: On June 8, 1940, the British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious was ambushed by the German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in the Norwegian Sea. Lacking radar ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Only extraordinary circumstances—particularly the lack of Combat Air Patrol—made the ambush of the Glorious possible by two large capital ships on a clear day.

FALKLAND ISLANDS - The wreck of an armored German battlecruiser used during World War I has been discovered off the Falkland Islands, the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust announced on Thursday, ...

This made British warships more vulnerable to ammunition explosions. Indeed, it is worth noting that the German battlecruiser squadron came under fire from most of the British battleship ...

“This discovery is a major breakthrough in the quest to locate all of the ships that comprised the German squadron lost during the battle,” it said in a statement. “The search began on the ...

The wreckage of a World War I German armoured battlecruiser has been discovered off the coast of the Falkland Islands. The SMS Scharnhorst, the flagship of Admiral Maximilian Graf von Spee's East ...

Some were based at Sheerness and the battlecruisers based at Rosyth. The Germans could not hope to defeat the whole British Grand Fleet and so hoped to split it and sink parts of it to reduce the ...

Courtesy Orkney Library and Archive The battlecruiser Derflinger just four minutes before it disappeared beneath the surface Nine German battleships, five battlecruisers, seven light cruisers and ...