Here’s What You Need to Remember: Scharnhorst remained at Kiel for most of 1942. In early 1943, it proceeded to Norway where it operated as part of a “fleet in being” with Prinz Eugen, Tirpitz (the ...

A detailed account of Operation Cerberus, where the Kriegsmarine executed a risky Channel Dash under heavy British defenses, ...

Captain Larry Taylor, who has died aged 102, was navigator of the destroyer Savage at the Battle of the North Cape on Boxing Day 1943, and Director of Marine Services after the war. Savage was part of ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The more numerous and powerful radars on Force 2’s Duke of York finally picked up the Scharnhorst twenty-five miles away after 4 p.m. Her sole forward radar knocked ...

It’s a crisp June evening in the Norwegian Sea. Aboard the British aircraft carrier hms Glorious, Captain Guy D’Oyly-Hughes ...