Location: Cape Matapan, off the southern coast of Greece. Players: British and Italian navies, Admiral AB Cunningham, Vice Admiral Pridham-Wippwell. Outcome: The Italian navy was defeated and did ...

The German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were designed to challenge the naval power of France and the United Kingdom, built under the restrictions of 1930s naval treaties. Though Gneisenau ...