Photo #: NH 97537
German battleships Scharnhorst (left) and Gneisenau
In a German port, circa spring or early summer 1939, after Gneisenau
had been refitted with a "clipper" bow, but before
Scharnhorst had been similarly fitted.
Two rowing shells (one with four oarsmen and a coxwain, the other
with two oarsmen only) are in the foreground.
Fine screen halftone reproduction, published in the contemporary
German booklet "Deutsche Seemacht".
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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