The SMS Scharnhorst (pictured), a first-class WWI German battlecruiser, has been discovered wrecked 98 nautical miles south east of Port Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands.

SMS Scharnhorst was named after the chief of the Prussian general staff during the Napoleonic Wars The wreck of a World War One German armoured cruiser has been located off the Falkland Islands ...

SMS Scharnhorst: Wreck of WWI German armoured cruiser found near Falkland Islands. The armoured vessel was sunk by the British in a crucial naval battle on 8 December 1914.

The Edgar-class protected cruiser, the HMS Hawke, was torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1914 in an attack that killed 524 sailors. Divers found Royal Navy crockery still sitting in the ship’s rooms.

Many WWI battles took place between the French armed forces and German troops positioned on the Chemin des Dames, or “Lady’s Way,” a crest between two valleys.