The Scharnhorst was struck by HMS Invincible and HMS Inflexible. One of four underwater vehicles was dispatched to find the vessel. State of the art equipment was used to find the wreck.

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.

Shocked at the Royal Navy’s first defeat since the Battle of Lake Champlain in the War of 1812, the Admiralty detached the battlecruisers HMS Invincible and HMS Inflexible from the Grand Fleet ...

HMS Invincible and HMS Inflexible inflicted substantial damage on SMS Scharnhorst, causing it to sink with all 860 people on board. The Royal Navy then gave pursuit to the remaining German ships.

Roughly 250 vessels and more than 100,000 men, including battle cruiser HMS Inflexible and light cruiser HMS Galatea, clashed in the frigid waters of the North Sea.

As a case in point, this report from Woolwich Dockyards makes interesting reading, as our predecessors seem open-mouthed in amazement at a colossal piece of firepower: an 81-ton gun, destined for one ...