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TAMIYA 1/700 SCHARNHORST WWII GERMAN BATTLESHIP 77518
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SCHARNHORST WWII GERMAN BATTLECRUISER 1/700 Scale
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The Battlecruiser Scharnhorst was commissioned on January 7, 1939. Scharnhorst & Gneisenau’s first wartime operation in November 1939 sank the Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS Rawalpindi. They sank the carrier HMS Glorious & escorting destroyers HMS Acasta & HMS Ardent on June 8. In this action, Scharnhorst was torpedoed by Acasta. She was further damaged by a bomb a few days later & was under repair for most of the rest of 1940. From January until March 1941, Scharnhorst operated in the Atlantic. Convoy HX-106 was attacked on 8 February, but the attack was broken off as soon as the battleship HMS Ramillies was sighted. Twelve days later, on 22 February, 4 merchant ships were sighted & sunk off Newfoundland. By operating where British air cover was weak to non-existent, the German ships managed to elude the Royal Navy & between the 7th & the 9th of March they attacked convoy SL-67 breaking off the attack when HMS Malaya was sighted. An unescorted convoy of tankers, was attacked south-east of Newfoundland on the 15 March & the next day another mixed convoy was detected & attacked with the sinking of 13 ships, 4 by the Scharnhorst. They entered the French port of Brest on the 22 March. While in Brest, the German ships were the targets of repeated air attacks. The resulting damage kept Scharnhorst non-operational into late 1941, when it was decided to send the two battlecruisers & the Prinz Eugen back to Germany. Since it was too risky to attempt via the North Atlantic, on 11-13 February 1942, the three big ships, escorted by dozens of minesweepers & E-Boats, made the "Channel Dash" through the English Channel, called Operation Cerberus, to reach Germany. Caught off guard, the British were unable to stop the ships with limited air & surface attacks, though both Scharnhorst & Gneisenau were damaged by mines. On Christmas day 1943, Scharnhorst & several destroyers put to sea to attack convoys JW55B & RA55A north of Norway. Unfortunately for the Germans, their orders were decoded by the British codebreakers & the Admiralty were able to direct their forces to intercept. The next day, in heavy weather & unable to locate the convoy, Bey detached the destroyers & sent them south, leaving Scharnhorst alone. Less than 2 hours later, the ship encountered the convoy's escort force of HMS Belfast, Norfolk & Sheffield. The smaller gunned British cruisers opened fire, after several exchanges, Scharnhorst’s radar was disabled, leaving her unable to return accurate fire in low visibility. Norfolk suffered minor damage. Admiral Bey ordered Scharnhorst to take a southeast course away from the cruisers. In the late afternoon, the convoy's covering force, including HMS Duke of York, made contact & opened fire. Despite suffering the loss of its hangar & a turret, Scharnhorst temporarily increased its distance from its pursuers. Duke of York caught up & fired again, the second salvo wrecked the "A" turret, detonating the charges in "A" magazine which led to the same in "B" magazine. Partial flooding of the magazines quenched the explosions. No Royal Navy ship received any serious damage, though the flagship was frequently straddled & one of her masts was smashed by an 11-inch shell. At 18:00 Scharnhorst's main battery went silent; at 18:20 another round from Duke of York destroyed a boiler room, reducing Scharnhorst's speed to about 22 knots & leaving her open to attacks from the destroyers. But battered & crippled as she was, her secondary armament was still firing as the cruiser Jamaica & destroyers Musketeer, Matchless, Opportune & Virago closed & launched torpedoes. Duke of York fired her 77th salvo at 19:28 at Scharnhorst. The last three torpedoes fired by HMS Jamaica at 19:37 from under two miles range was the final crippling blow. Scharnhorst sank at 19:45 hours on 26 December 1943 with her propellers still turning. Of a total of 1,968 men, only 36 survivors were rescued. Later that evening Admiral Fraser briefed his officers on board Duke of York: "Gentlemen, the battle against Scharnhorst has ended in victory for us. I hope that if any of you are ever called upon to lead a ship into action against an opponent many times superior, you will command your ship as gallantly as Scharnhorst was commanded today". Ironically in 1793 Gerhard von Scharnhorst had served as a young lieutenant under the Duke of York in the Netherlands.
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