North Cape 1943
North Cape 1943 A beautifully illustrated study of the Battle of North Cape in 1943, a dramatic clash of British and German battleships in the North Sea which resulted in the sinking of the German…
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North Cape 1943
A beautifully illustrated study of the Battle of North Cape in 1943, a dramatic clash of British and German battleships in the North Sea which resulted in the sinking of the German battleship Scharnhorst.The German battleship Scharnhorst had a reputation for being a lucky ship. In the spring of 1943, the Scharnhorst was redeployed to Norway. Early in the war, she fought off a British battlecruiser and sunk a carrier before carrying out two successful forays into the Atlantic.
Over the next six months, she made two forays into the Barents Sea, but saw no action, save for the shelling of Spitzbergen. There, working in concert with other German warships such as the battleship Tirpitz, she posed a major threat to the Arctic convoys-the Allied sea lifeline to Russia. However, her presence, alongside Tirpitz, forced the British to tie down