GNEISENAU SUNK?
BELIEF IN LONDON. LONDON, April 12, The Times’s naval expert suggests that the Gncisenau, not the Blucher has been sunk. There is no doubt a largo warship was sunk in Oslo Fiord, but it is difficult to believe she was the Blucher, because the Germans are most unlikely to send an 8-in. gun cruiser against an llin. gun force. The claim made by the German radio that- the French destroyer Tartu (2441 tons) was sunk in the North Sea is officially denied in Paris. The Gncisenau was a 26.000-ton battleship of the newest type. She was laid down in 1936 and was the first German battleship built since the Great War unhampered by treaty restrictions. Consequently she was much more formidable even than the Graf Spee class of “pocket” battleship. The Blucher was a 10,000-ton cruiser built in 1936-37.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 115, 13 April 1940, Page 7
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141GNEISENAU SUNK? Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 115, 13 April 1940, Page 7
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