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    SMS Gneisenau was an armored cruiser of the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy), part of the two-ship Scharnhorst class. Named for the earlier screw...
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    and Gneisenau. Scharnhorst was launched first, and is considered to be the lead ship by some sources; they are also referred to as the Gneisenau class...
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  • replenishment ship Glyndwr: seaplane tender Gneisenau: 3,000 ton Bismarck-class corvette, launched 1879 Gneisenau (armored cruiser): 11,600 ton Scharnhorst-class...
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    was evacuated from Brest in Brittany to German ports. Scharnhorst and Gneisenau had arrived in Brest on 22 March 1941 after the success of Operation Berlin...
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    Acasta and Ardent were sunk by the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau while heading back to Britain. Ark Royal's aircraft failed to locate the...
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    of the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II. The Scharnhorst and Gneisenau sailed from Germany, operated across the North Atlantic, sank or captured...
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    zum Stein – Prussian politician (1825) 55. August Graf Neidhardt von Gneisenau – Prussian field marshal (1842) 56. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – poet...
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    during their stay in Brest Prinz Eugen and the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were repeatedly attacked by Allied bombers. The Royal Air Force jokingly...
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    Kampfgruppe of Grenadier-Regiment 50 in the fortress Posen [presumably a "Gneisenau-Einheit" of Wehrkreis III]. According to Fellgiebel Dietrich Koch is delisted...
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    Hankou, where unrest had broken out. Leipzig and the armored cruiser Gneisenau steamed to Calcutta, India, in early 1911 to meet Crown Prince Wilhelm...
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