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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- SHIPS of the GERMAN NAVY --

Scharnhorst (Battleship, 1939-1943) --
In Icy Seas and Ports, 1939-40


This page features additional views of the German battleship Scharnhorst in the ice, during the winter of 1939-40.

For more images of icy conditions on and around Scharnhorst in the winter of 1939-40, see:

  • Scharnhorst -- In Icy Seas and Ports, 1939-40.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 101567

    Scharnhorst
    (German Battleship, 1939)

    View looking down from battleship's main deck, forward, as she steams through ice in the Baltic Sea during the winter of 1939-40, probably in January 1940. The western Baltic ice was very heavy into February 1940.
    The ship's stem runs horizontally through the middle of the view, from left-center to the right edge.

    Copied from the contemporary German photo album "Meine Kriegserinnerungen auf Schlachtschiff Scharnhorst", page 7.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 530 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 101566

    Scharnhorst
    (German Battleship, 1939)

    Icy lifelines seen from the battleship's main deck, during the winter of 1939-40, probably in the Baltic Sea in January 1940.

    Copied from the contemporary German photo album "Meine Kriegserinnerungen auf Schlachtschiff Scharnhorst", page 7.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 108KB; 740 x 530 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 102525

    German Naval Memorial, at Laboe


    Photographed from on board the battleship Scharnhorst during the winter of 1939-40.
    This memorial was built in 1927-36 to honor the memory of German sailors lost in the First World War, 1914-1918.

    Copied from the contemporary German photo album "Meine Kriegserinnerungen auf Schlachtschiff Scharnhorst", page 8.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 71KB; 515 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 101564

    Scharnhorst
    (German Battleship, 1939)

    A crewman poses on the battleship's deck under ice-coated 11-inch gun barrels during the winter of 1939-40, probably in January 1940 in the Baltic Sea.
    The original caption translates "Menacing Cold".

    Copied from the contemporary German photo album "Meine Kriegserinnerungen auf Schlachtschiff Scharnhorst", page 6.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 525 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 101565

    Scharnhorst
    (German Battleship, 1939)

    Closeup view of the ice-covered port forward main anchor, taken during the winter of 1939-40, probably in the Baltic Sea in January 1940.

    Copied from the contemporary German photo album "Meine Kriegserinnerungen auf Schlachtschiff Scharnhorst", page 7.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 84KB; 740 x 530 pixels

     

    For more images of icy conditions on and around Scharnhorst in the winter of 1939-40, see:

  • Scharnhorst -- In Icy Seas and Ports, 1939-40.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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