Convoy ambushed by battleship

5th November 1940: Captain Fogarty Fegen awarded VC for a suicidal delaying action that allows many ships to escape

The Admiral Scheer was one of a class of ‘pocket battleships’ (15,000 metric tons) that were much smaller than the Bismarck and Tirpitz (50,000 metric tons). Armed with six 11-inch guns in two triple turrets and eight 5.9-inch guns in single turrets, the ships of the ‘Deutschland class’ were designed to be swift, predatory hunters capable of reaching t…