The combat experience of the battlecruiser Scharnhorst

<> battlecruiser "Scharnhorst".

Introduction to the ship type. The battlecruiser "Scharnhorst" was a large capital ship designed and built by Germany.

Parameter. Displacement: 35000 tons.

Length, width, draft: 235 meters, 30 meters, 75 meters.

Armor: mainboard side armor 320 mm, upper and lower decks 50 mm, main armor deck 80 110 mm, main gun turret (frontal) 360 mm, gun mount 350 mm, conning tower 350 mm.

**Armament: 9 x 283 mm main guns, 12 x 150 mm secondary guns. 14 twin 105-mm anti-aircraft guns, 16 twin 37-mm anti-aircraft guns. 6 triple 533-mm torpedo tubes.

Power plant: 3 steam turbines, 12 boilers, 3 shafts, the output of the main engine reaches 117718 kW.

Speed: 32 knots.

History. In June 1935, Germany planned to build a ** with a displacement of 35,000 tons. As a result, the German Navy stopped building the "German Attendant Will" class.

The fourth and fifth ships began construction of the newly designed "Scharnhorst" class.

Battleship Archives. In 1940, after the outbreak of World War II, two ships of the Scharnhorst class sank the HMS Glorious aircraft carrier in the North Sea. In 1941, the two ships of the "Scharnhorst" class broke into the Daxi Chan Chaoma Ocean together to carry out the "four-wheeled vehicle" operation, and in two months of operation, a total of 22 merchant ships were sunk, with a total tonnage of 115,000 tons.

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The battleship Scharnhorst was the most advanced surface ship equipped by the German army and even the world at that time, he was named after the famous military theorist Scharnhorst during the Prussian period, he had strong hungry armor, fierce artillery and amazing speed, and his sister ship was Tirpits, which was also named after Tirpitt, the founder of the German Navy. However, in that naval battle, he acted alone, he successfully crossed the obstacles set up by the British Navy, and was discovered when he went out to Jutland, and then the British Navy quickly mobilized two warships to intercept, and under the achievement of one dead and one wounded, he was also seriously damaged, with oil leaks, radio failures, and slowing down of the speed, and then the British Navy even mobilized ships from the mainland to intercept from the English Channel, and they found him by looking for oil traces on the sea, and finally, he was surrounded and annihilated after a complete stop. became a living target, so much so that it sank.

After the outbreak of World War II, during the invasion of Norway, on June 8, 1940, the Scharnhorst-class ships sank the British Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Glory in the North Sea. In 1941, the two ships broke into the Atlantic Ocean several times together to break up diplomatic relations with Allied transport ships. With the entry of the United States into the war, Germany's large ** had to face the powerful Allied navy when fighting in the Atlantic, and at the same time, in order to strengthen Norway's defense and cut off the Allied Arctic route, on February 12, 1942, the two ships of the Scharnhorst class sailed into the English Channel and returned to Germany through the Strait of Dover (the breakout operation was codenamed "Thunder-Thurbruss"), but the two ships that were safely blocked by the British were damaged by mines one after another.

From 26 February to 27 February 1942, the RAF launched an air raid on the floating dock in the port of Kiel-Gneisenau, which had been repaired due to a minebreak, with 178 bombers flying and hitting its bow. Unlike the usual repairs, the ammunition was not unloaded because it was expected to be completed within 2 weeks, and the entire bow of the Gneisenau was destroyed because of the attack. After emergency repairs, the Gneisenau was unloaded from Gdynia and transferred to the reserve for overhaul.

In 1942, the Scharnhorst entered Norwegian waters and destroyed the Arctic routes of the Allies, and on December 25, 1943, the Scharnhorst sailed from the Alta Fjord to attack the JW-55B fleet, and was intercepted by the British fleet led by the battleship Duke of York, and was sunk by the British ships. The Gneisenau was repaired and ready to sail for Norway, but British bombers damaged it again, and the ship had to stay in the shipyard for a long time, and finally became a useless hulk ship, which was sunk as a barrier ship in the port of Gdynia.