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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

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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12 March 2001