Photo #: NH 102537
Scharnhorst (German Battleship, 1939)
Tied to a mooring bouy in Wilhelmshaven Harbor, circa 1939, as
men in a boat push off from her bow.
Note anchors, ship's badges on her bow and on the boat, and paired
cables running down from her starboard bow chock.
In mid-1939, Scharnhorst's bow was greatly modified from
the configuration seen here.
Copied from the contemporary German photo album "Meine Kriegserinnerungen
auf Schlachtschiff Scharnhorst", page 15.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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