The two ships were laid down in 1935, launched in late 1936, and commissioned into the German fleet by early 1939. Two of the three turbines were jammed, and the third had to be turned off. It was extremely strong amidships, but weakened on either end of the citadel. The underwater protection could only stop a 200 kg (440 lb) warhead in these areas. Scharnhorst was launched first, and is considered to be the lead ship by some sources; they are also referred to as the Gneisenau class in some other sources, as Gneisenau was the first to be laid down and commissioned. The ship was completed in May 1938 and commissioned for sea trials on the 21st, under the command of Kapitän zur See (Kz… A series of raids started on 30 March.The ships left Brest late on 11 February, and remained undetected for the majority of the operation. I november 1939 gick Gnei… The 28.3 cm turrets were readily available; 38 cm turrets would take years to develop, and Hitler wanted capital ships as soon as possible to fulfill his political ideals.The German navy considered the ships to be poor sea boats; they were bow-heavy when fully equipped and very "wet" as high as the bridge. El Gneisenau fue un buque de guerra de la Kriegsmarine alemana en la Segunda Guerra Mundial.Descrito tanto como acorazado como crucero de batalla, fue la segunda nave de su clase, a la que también pertenecía el Scharnhorst.El buque fue construido en los astilleros Deutsche Werke de Kiel, donde fue puesto en grada el 6 de mayo de 1935 y botado el 8 de diciembre de 1936. Later that day, reconnaissance aircraft located a convoy of some 20 transports escorted by cruisers and destroyers approximately 400 nautical miles (740 kilometres; 460 miles) west of An hour after making the turn, Bey deployed his destroyers in a line screening At around 18:00, another 14 in shell struck the ship on the starboard side, passed through the thin upper belt armor, and exploded in the number 1 boiler room. Palvelus. East of The ship was then disarmed and all but abandoned in the harbor.Over the course of the war, 300 air raids made Brest one of the most bombed cities in France. Another 300 t (300 long tons; 330 short tons) tons of water flooded ten watertight spaces in four main compartments. They marked the beginning of German naval rearmament after The first went through each deck and exited the ship through the On 12 January 1942, the German Naval Command, in a conference with Hitler, made the decision to return While the ship was immobilized, Admiral Ciliax transferred to The ship struck another mine off Terschelling on the starboard side at 22:34.
Another significant weakness in the design was the arrangement of the torpedo bulkhead.
The ship was launched on 8 December 1936, after which fitting-out out work was begun. The eight turbo-generators were also of mixed capacity; six ran supplied 460 kW each and the remaining two provided 230 kW each. Gneisenau was ordered as Ersatz Hessen as a replacement for the old pre-dreadnought Hessen, under the contract name \"E.\" The Deutsche Werke in Kiel was awarded the contract, where the keel was laid on 6 May 1935. They were joined by At 17:45, the German battleships spotted the British On 6 February, the two ships refueled from the tanker Lütjens then decided to move to a new area, as the surviving members of the dispersed convoy had sent distress signals. Scharnhorst was a German capital ship, alternatively described as a battleship or battlecruiser, of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine.She was the lead ship of her class, which included one other ship, Gneisenau.The ship was built at the Kriegsmarinewerft dockyard in Wilhelmshaven; she was laid down on 15 June 1935 and launched a year and four months later on 3 October 1936.

In early 1942, after repeated British bombing raids, the two ships The two ships left Wilhelmshaven on 4 June to return to Norway.

The mine briefly knocked out the power system and temporarily disabled the rudders. Total power output was 4,120 kW at 220 After 1942, six 53.3 cm deck-mounted torpedo tubes were taken from the The underwater protection system was designed to withstand a direct hit from a 250 kg (550 lb) explosive warhead; British The underwater side protection had numerous faults. Temporary repairs allowed In September 2000, a joint expedition to find the sunken battleship conducted by the Scharnhorst-class battleship of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine They were the first class of German ships to be officially classified by the Kriegsmarine as The construction of new D-class cruisers were canceled to make way for Because the maximum caliber of naval gun allowed under the Anglo-German Naval Agreement was 40.6 cm (16 inch), Hitler soon had second thoughts about the guns to be used for the new ships and ordered that they be armed with 38 cm (15 inch) weapons.

«Gneisenau» var en tysk slagkrysser oppkalt etter den prøyssiske feltmarskalken August Wilhelm von Gneisenau.Kjølen ble strukket i februar 1934 og «Gneisenau» ble satt i tjeneste i mai 1938.. Slagskipene i Scharnhorstklassen var de første skipene i den tyske marinen som kunne bygges i henhold til den tysk-britiske flåteoverenskomsten. The four diesel generators were divided into pairs: two provided 150 kilowatts each and two supplied 300 kW each.

SMS Gneisenau was an armored cruiser of the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy), part of the two-ship Scharnhorst class.Named for the earlier screw corvette of the same name, the ship was laid down in June 1904 at the AG Weser shipyard in Bremen, launched in June 1906, and commissioned in March 1908. Byggandet av Gneisenau påbörjades i maj 1935 i Kiel, i december 1936 sjösattes skrovet och i maj 1938 gick hon i tjänst.