1914
The Scharnhorst rolls over and sinks while the Gneisenau fights on, painted by William Lionel Wyllie.Image: William Lionel Wyllie · Public domainworld · Americas
The Battle of the Falkland Islands
On 8 December 1914 the German East Asia Squadron under Admiral Maximilian von Spee arrived off Port Stanley to raid the British base, only to find two powerful battlecruisers that had arrived the day before. In the chase that followed, the British sank the armoured cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and two light cruisers; von Spee and two of his sons were among the German sailors lost. The battle avenged the British defeat at Coronel five weeks earlier.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: Battle of the Falkland Islands ↗
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