The Battle of the North Cape was a naval battle of World War II, fought on December 26, 1943 off North Cape at the north of Norway between the German Kriegsmarine and the British Royal Navy. A naval battle is a battle fought using ships or other waterborne vessels. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... December 26 is the 360th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, 361st in leap years. ... 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... Midnight sun at the North Cape North Cape is a cape on the island of Magerøya in northern Norway, in the community of Nordkapp. ... The Kriegsmarine or War Navy was the name of the German Navy between 1935 and 1945, during the Nazi reign. ... The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the senior service of the armed services, being the oldest of its three branches. ...

The German battlecruiser (or light battleship) Scharnhorst had gone to attack an arctic convoy heading to Russia. The Admiralty aided by Ultra intercepts anticipated the move and she was caught by the radar-equipped battleship Duke of York, the cruiser Jamaica and the destroyers Saumarez, Savage, Scorpion and Stord while HMS Belfast, Norfolk and Sheffield kept the Scharnhorst in play. Scharnhorst was finally sunk by Belfast and Jamaica with torpedos with the loss of all but 36 members of her crew, most perishing in the icy waters as the Duke of York had retreated to avoid submarine attack. HMS Invincible, one of Britains first battlecruisers Battlecruisers (short for battleship-cruisers) were large warships of the early 20th century. ... Scharnhorst was a 31,500 ton Gneisenau class battlecruiser of the German Kriegsmarine, named to commemorate the World War I armoured cruiser SMS Scharnhorst, which was in turn named after the Prussian general Gerhard von Scharnhorst. ... The Arctic convoys of World War II travelled from the USA and the United Kingdom to the northern ports of the USSR - Archangel and Murmansk. ... Old Admiralty House, Whitehall, London, Thomas Ripley, architect, 1723-26, was not admired by his contemporaries and earned him some scathing couplets from Alexander Pope The Admiralty was historically the authority in the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy. ... This article is about WWII intelligence material codenamed Ultra. For other usages, see Ultra (disambiguation) Ultra (sometimes capitalised ULTRA) was the name used by the British for intelligence resulting from decrypts of German communications in World War II (WWII); the term eventually became the common standard terminology for Britain and... This article is about a battleship as a type of warship. ... HMS Duke of York was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy, and the second of the name, the predecessor having been a 4-gun cutter purchased in 1763 and sold in 1766. ... The USS Port Royal (CG-73), a Ticonderoga class cruiser. ... HMS Jamaica (C44), a Crown Colony class cruiser of the Royal Navy, is named after Jamaica when it used to be part of the British Empire. ... This article is about the warship. ...