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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 102529

Scharnhorst
(German Battleship, 1939)

View from the forward superstructure, looking toward the bow, as the ship throws spray while underway during the winter of 1939-40.
Note ice accumulated on her triple 283mm (11") gun turrets.

Copied from the contemporary German photo album "Meine Kriegserinnerungen auf Schlachtschiff Scharnhorst", page 16.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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12 March 2001