Life and Death of the ‘Scharnhorst’
The Life and Death of the ‘Scharnhorst’ with Ludovic Kennedy Forty-one years ago, on Boxing Day 1943, the most successful warship in the German Navy was sunk, off the North Cape of Norway, by the guns and torpedoes of the British Fleet. So ended a career during which the German battleship had sunk an aircraft carrier, an armed merchant cruiser, two destroyers and well over 100,000 tons of merchant shipping.
Ludovic Kennedy (whose father commanded HMS
Rawalpindi, the first ship sunk by the Scharnhorst) tells the story of the battleship’s four years of war. The programme includes remarkable action film and participants in both navies.
Credit to : BBC
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