Admiral Scheer ([ˌatmiˈʁaːl ʃeːɐ̯]) was a Deutschland-class heavy cruiser (often termed a pocket battleship) which served with the Kriegsmarine (Navy)...

Heinrich Reinhard Scheer (30 September 1863 – 26 November 1928) was an Admiral in the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine). Scheer joined the navy...

the Treaty of Versailles. The ships of the class, Deutschland, Admiral Scheer, and Admiral Graf Spee, were all stated to displace 10,000 long tons (10,160 t)...

three British battlecruisers. In 1918 he was promoted to succeed Admiral Reinhard Scheer as commander of the High Seas Fleet. After the end of the war in...

Admiral Scheer was also returning from a raid to Germany around the same time, there was a concern the two ships might hinder each other so Admiral Hipper...

as commerce raiders during World War II, of which Admiral Scheer was the most successful; Admiral Graf Spee was scuttled after the Battle of the River...

familiarisation with the heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer, under the command of Captain Wilhelm Marschall. On Admiral Scheer, he again served as first gunnery...

in 1927. In 1933 he was promoted to Leutnant zur See and in 1937 as a member of the Kriegsmarine he served on the battleship Admiral Scheer. He was transferred...

Faced with the arrival of Deutschland, its two sister ships Admiral Scheer and Admiral Graf Spee, the light cruisers Köln, Leipzig, and Nürnberg, and...

coal to Alexandria. On 11 March he received a message from Group West. Admiral Scheer and Hipper were to operate in the north, and German intelligence were...

ships; if Scheer had ordered an immediate turn towards Germany, he would have had to sacrifice the slower ships to make his escape. Admiral Scheer decided...

the war, the most famous of these being the heavy cruisers Admiral Graf Spee and Admiral Scheer and the battleship Bismarck. However, the adoption of convoy...

which dispersed on 5 November 1940 when the German cruiser Admiral Scheer attacked it. Scheer shelled and torpedoed Beaverford, sinking her with all hands...

survivors. In early March, a task force composed of the German cruiser Admiral Scheer accompanied by three German destroyers and the Elbing-class torpedo...

cruisers (10,800 tons, 6 × 280 mm guns) Deutschland (1933–1948) Admiral Scheer (1934–1945) Admiral Graf Spee (1936–1939) Type 23 torpedo boats (923 tons...

Bürkner was First Officer on the newly commissioned pocket battleship Admiral Scheer from 1 October 1935 until 26 July 1937. In July 1936 the ship was sent...

Marine) in 1936. In 1936 he was given command of the German cruiser Admiral Scheer (22 September 1936 – 30 October 1938) and served as the Commander of...

to Germany, and therefore, Deutschland and two further units—Admiral Scheer and Admiral Graf Spee—were built. In 1932, the Reichsmarine secured the passage...

August 1942 during Operation Wunderland the Kriegsmarine heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer attacked her off the northwest shore of Russky Island in the Nordenskiöld...

that was sunk in heroic circumstances by the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer in 1940, was indirectly named after him.[citation needed] Jervis has...

able to carry out his duties. He was replaced by Vice Admiral Reinhard Scheer in January. Scheer proposed a more aggressive policy designed to force a...

Bermudian. Hamilton, Pembroke, Bermuda. April, 1998 "OPERATION OF THE "ADMIRAL SCHEER" IN THE ATLANTIC AND INDIAN OCEANS 23 October, 1940 - 1 April, 1941...

pocket battleship, thought to be the German battleship Admiral Scheer but which turned out to be Admiral Graf Spee. A fierce battle ensued, at a range of about...

which included ships from Bermuda – was attacked by the German cruiser Admiral Scheer in November 1940), but the island was never attacked, and the threat...

Half-Flotilla at Jutland, as does the German commander at Jutland, Admiral Scheer , although it is more likely that Korvettenkapitän Theodor Riedel held...

On 18 December she departed to join the search for the heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer, which had recently sunk the British refrigerator ship Duquesa in the...

Sibiryakov was sunk on August 25, 1942 by the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer while defending two convoys. The patrol ship Brilliant (formerly trawler...

Admirals of Germany have existed since the founding of German sea forces, first with the Reichsflotte and then most predominantly that of the Prussian...

Berlin Schlesien torpedo boat Luchs cruiser Köln cruiser Emden cruiser Admiral Scheer cruiser Leipzig U-37 Commands held U-130 2nd U-boat Flotilla Battles/wars...

"Thiele" on 23 March 1945. With the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, Admiral Hipper, Admiral Scheer and Lützow, and the ships of the line Schlesien and Schleswig-Holstein...