The German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were designed to challenge the naval power of France and the United Kingdom, built under the restrictions of 1930s naval treaties. Though Gneisenau ...

HMS Canopus was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy missed ... and her sister ship, the Gneisenau, and then to conduct an archaeological survey of each to establish their dispositions ...

With the German ... and bombed the Gneisenau at Kiel, the Scharnhorst at Wilhelmshaven. The Prinz Eugen, a fast and tough 10,000-ton cruiser, had slipped out of Brest with the battleships.