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BC Gneisenau in Kiel - Related Files

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	The BC Gneisenau in drydock at Deutsche Werke in Kiel While under repair the Gneisenau received a direct hit on the foredeck during an air attack on the night of 26 - 27 February 1942. Despite it was standard procedure, her stocks of ammunition were not discharged. This was a fatal error as the hit she received started a chain reaction which devastated the ship and killed 112 crewmembers. This was the end of the career of the Gneisenau.		06/28/2006	549
	German Battlecruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhorst in Brest The two ships returned from the open Atlantic to the port of Brest, France, and then started preparations for their next operation. Gneisenau went into the dry dock for minor repairs. In early April, 1941, an unexploded bomb, dropped by RAF Bomber Command bombers during near constant air-raids on the ships, forced Gneisenau out of drydock, and she was anchored in the inner harbor. 22 Squadron o...		08/05/2008	1,135
	Battlecruiser Gneisenau in drydock Gdynia The Gneisenau was transfered to the Gotenhafen (Gdynia) branch of Deutsche Werke in April 1942. On the photograph she can be seen in the floating dock in Gotenhafen (Gdynia). Here her stem was cut off and used as scrap metal.		10/09/2007	652
	Entree baltic sea to Kiel-Canal This is the entree to the Kiel-Canal (Nord-Ostsee-Kanal) near Kiel.		11/15/2005	231
	West-Entrance Kiel-canal The Kiel Canal (in German Nord-Ostsee-Kanal, formerly Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal) is a 98 kilometre long waterway linking the North Sea at Brunsbüttel to the Baltic Sea at Kiel-Holtenau. An average of 280 nautical miles is saved by using the Kiel Canal instead of going around Jutland. This not only saves time, it avoids potentially dangerous storm-prone seas. It is the world's busiest artificial wate...		07/31/2005	362
	East-entrence Kiel-canal The Kiel Canal (in German Nord-Ostsee-Kanal, formerly Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal) is a 98 kilometre long waterway linking the North Sea at Brunsbüttel to the Baltic Sea at Kiel-Holtenau. An average of 280 nautical miles is saved by using the Kiel Canal instead of going around Jutland. This not only saves time, it avoids potentially dangerous storm-prone seas. It is the world's busiest artificial wate...		07/31/2005	452
	Ferry in Kiel From the City Kiel goes the ferrys to Norway,UK,Sweden and ...		08/27/2006	165
	Bombing of Kiel, Germany B-24Ds from 44th BG over Kiel , 14 May '43		10/18/2005	467
	The Kiel Canal tour The Kiel Canal (German: Nord-Ostsee-Kanal), until 1948 known as the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal, is an approximately 100 kilometer (62 mile) long canal in the German Bundesland Schleswig-Holstein that links the North Sea at Brunsbüttel to the Baltic Sea at Kiel-Holtenau. An average of 250 nautical miles (463 kilometers, 288 miles) is saved by using the Kiel Canal instead of going around the Jutland pe...		02/10/2008	686
	Naval Coast Battery Zanddijk near Julianadorp en Zee M.K.B. Zanddijk consisted of two ammunitionbunkers, a M 120 (Leitstand für eine 17 cm Batterie) and two M 219 (Stand für 15 cm SKC/28 in Drehhaube C/34). These two M 219 are the only two built in the Netherlands. The guns of these bunkers came from the battleship Gneisenau. This ship was in the dry dock at Kiel, when it received a direct hit during a bombardment. Both M 219' s are still ...		09/27/2006	303
	Color Line Ferry The M/S Kronprins Harald entered service on the Oslo-Kiel route in 1987. The M/S Kronprins Harald can carry up to 1432 passengers and 700 vehicles. The Kiel crossing takes 19 hours.		11/21/2006	188
	Submarine Wharf in Kiel View of the submarine wharf in Kiel, Germany with three submarines, one in build		06/28/2006	391