An item reported that the German battleship Scharnhorst (1) and the light cruiser Nürnberg were according to reliable sources on 12 April lying at Kiel, Germany.
Notes
1. Part of Scharnhorst-class battleships/battle cruisers preceded by planned L20e a-class and realized Bayern-class succeeded by Bismarch-class, laid down at the Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhemshaven, Germany on 15 June 1935, launched on 3 October 1936, commissioned on 7 January 1939 and sunk while in battle off the North Cape on 26 December 1943 by the British battleship HMS Duke of York with just 36 survivors of a crew of 1,968 men. Her sister ship was the Gneisenau. The Scharnhorst was to replace the old dreadnought Elsass and so she became first know in official documents and newspaper as the Ersatz Elsass and in the contracts as "D”.
2. Part of Leipzig-class light cruisers preceded by Königsberg-class succeeded by planned M-class cruiser, ordered in 1933, laid down with yard number 234 by Deutsche Werke, Kiel, Germany on 4 November 1934, launched on 6 December 1934, commissioned on 2 November 1935, seized by the British Royal Navy in 1945, handed in December to the Soviet Union, renamed Admiral Makarov and broken up by 1960.
Source
Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 124 dated 13 April 1942
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