Battlecruisers were a unique class of warship designed to combine the heavy guns of a battleship with the speed of a cruiser, ...

Tragically 2,200 German sailors died, including Graf von Spee himself and his two sons - Heinrich aboard the Gneisenau, and Otto aboard the Nürnberg. SMS Scharnhorst's bow.

Indeed, it is worth noting that the German battlecruiser squadron came under fire from most of the British battleship contingent, but most of them managed — albeit badly battered — to reach port.

The German battlecruisers then hastily left the scene without picking up survivors. Scharnhorst limped home, listing at five degrees, and would spend the next six months in Trondheim, ...

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, calling it “a ...

The SMS Scharnhorst (pictured), a first-class WWI German battlecruiser, has been discovered wrecked 98 nautical miles south east of Port Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands.

World War I battlecruiser wreck discovered near the Falkland Islands. A World War I German battlecruiser wreck has been discovered over 100 years after visiting Davy Jones’ locker.

The Hindenburg, the biggest German battlecruiser, was the last to sink. During the 1920s and '30s many of the 52 ships were lifted from the sea bed by commercial contractors and broken up.