“Escort To The Scharnhorst” by Simon
Atack (2002)
The German battleship ‘Scharnhorst’, along with her sister ship ‘Gneisenau’ were responsible for sinking 22 Allied vessels between them prior to March, 1941. After suffering battle damage, Scharnhorst relocated to the protective fjords of Norway, where, along with other ships of the German High Seas Fleet, she began a series of raids on convoys ferrying much needed materiel to a beleaguered Russia. On December 26, 1943, Scharnhorst is separated from her destroyer escort in heavy weather, and the British battleship Duke of York and her escorts attack and sink the mighty German ship with a barrage of shells and torpedoes. Only 36 men from Scharnhorst’s original crew of over 1900 survive the ordeal. In this print by Simon Atack, the magnificent German battlewagon is depicted moving northward in Norway to her last base of operations, escorted by a flight of low-flying Focke Wulf FW 190 fighters, based is Oslo Fornebu. more >>
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