The wreck of a German armoured cruiser that was sunk by the British during the First World War has been found off the coast of the Falkland Islands. SMS Scharnhorst was the flagship of Admiral ...

The armoured cruiser played a key role in the Battle of Coronel, fought between the British Royal Navy and Germany's Imperial Navy off the coast of Chile. It was Britain's first naval defeat of ...

On November 1 1914 a Royal Navy squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock intercepted the German Pacific ...

The German ships had evaded all British attempts to intercept them ... When Cradock’s squadron – two aged armored cruisers, one light cruiser and a passenger ship converted into an armed ...