1939- 1945 Gneisenau: a brilliant compromise, or a waste of resources?
She was to become one of the best-known German war ships of the Second World War, but that actually says very little, for the surface fleet in which she served was incapable of making a real mark on the conflict...
1939 BISMARCK. Launched on 14 February 1939 at the Hamburg shipyard Blohm & Voss and commissioned on 24 August 1940, the Bismarck required the concentrated fire of half the British Home Fleet to sink her on 27 May 1941. In her day the worlds largest battleship, Bismarck was in service for...
1936 GNEISENAU. Like most of the Third Reichs major surface warships, Gneisenau, and her sister-ship Scharnhorst, with whom she was always linked, were really effective only as components of a powerful fleet-in-being.
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The two ships of the Scharrihorst class were to...
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