Scharnhorst
The German Cruiser S Armoured S Scharnhorst and Gneisenau , formed the last class of this type of ship for the marine of the Kaiser, this one then preferring to follow the Royal Navy, on the way of the Croiseur of battle.
Description
These powerful cruisers, version increased of the Roon, were armed with eight guns of 210 mm, were divided into two double turrets, before and a back and four others into four Casemate S with each corner of the central armoured tiny room. The secondary armament was consisted six parts of 150 mm, they also in casemates, not less than ten eight parts of 88 mm were embarked in simple mountings to fight against the Torpilleur S and four underwater torpedo tubes of 450 mm, drawing by through, supplemented the arsenal. The propulsion included/understood three steam engines with triple expansion, involving each one its tree and its Hélice. The Chaudière S were mixed with the coal and the Mazout and evacuated their smoke by four right chimneys located between the two masts.
History
Dice its startup they were affected with the Be-Asian Escadron , where Scharnhorst was the flagship of the admiral Maximilian von Spee. After the declaration of war, they were the heart of this unit, during the race through the Pacifique, until the destruction of this squadron to the Bataille of Falklands, while passing by the victory of Coronel.
Scharnhorst was ordered by the Schultz captain. The December 8th, 1914, with 16:17, crushed by the shells of 305 mm of the cruisers of battle Invincible and Inflexible, involving in death all its crew and the admiral von Spee who was embarked there. The Gneisenau, sank to him with 17:50, the same day, there be however 190 survivors collected by the British ships, its commander, the Maerker captain, found death on the other hand there.
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