The Battle of the Falkland Islands was a First World War naval action between the British Royal Navy and Imperial German Navy on 8 December 1914 in the South Atlantic. The British, after their defeat
Battle of the Falkland Islands, William Lionel Wyllie
SMS Scharnhorst, flagship of the German squadron
The East Asia Squadron (background) departing Valparaíso, with Chilean Navy cruisers in the foreground, 3 November
The Battle of the Falkland Islands; North is to the left in this diagram
SMS Scharnhorst
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SMS Scharnhorst was an armored cruiser of the Imperial German Navy, built at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany. She was the lead ship of her class, which included SMS Gneisenau. Scharnhors
Battle of the Falkland Islands
…on 8 December in the Falkland Islands as a public holiday. Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee commanding the German squadron of two armoured cruisers, SMS Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, the light cruisers SMS Nürnberg, Dresden and Leipzig, and the colliers SS Baden, SS Santa Isabel, and SS Seydlitz attempted to raid the…
Scharnhorst steaming at high speed, c. 1907–1908
Line drawing of the Scharnhorst class
Pre-war photo of Scharnhorst