OSLO, Norway (AP) - The wreck of the German battleship Scharnhorst has been found in arctic waters more than a half-century after it was sunk by Allied warships in World War 11. "We've helped record world history," navy Capt. Marcus Einarsen Osen said Tuesday of the discovery. The 32,000-ton Scharnhorst was sunk off Norway on Dec. 16, 1943, by an Allied fleet led by the British battleship HMS Duke of York. All but 36 of the more than 1,900 crew aboard died. The German ship was found last week about 100 miles north of Norway's North Cape by navy and military researchers working with the state television network NRK. The wreck was first located under nearly 1,000 feet of water using sonar from the research ship Sverdrup. The navy ship KNM Tyr then filmed the Scharnhorst using a remote-controlled miniature submarine. The Scharnhorst was based in German-occupied northern Norway as part of a fleet that preyed on Allied warships and freighters bringing supplies to the Russian port of Murmansk. Its sinking off North Cape, which is considered Europe's northernmost point, meant Allied convoys could sail in relative safety through the area. The Norwegian military said it informed German authorities of the find and any further action would be up to them. Back to Dispatch March 2001 Table of Contents Back to Dispatch List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 2001 by HMGS Mid-South This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com