Heinrich Reinhard Scheer (30 September 1863 – 26 November 1928) was an Admiral in the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine). Scheer joined the navy...

Admiral Scheer (German pronunciation: [atmiˈʁaːl ˈʃeːɐ̯]) was a Deutschland-class heavy cruiser (often termed a pocket battleship) which served with the...

the Treaty of Versailles. The ships of the class, Deutschland, Admiral Scheer, and Admiral Graf Spee, were all stated to displace 10,000 long tons (10,160 t)...

the Germans to the sailing of a convoy, EON-18. The German cruiser Admiral Scheer supported by five U-boats and reconnaissance aircraft sailed on 16 August...

With the ship remaining under fire from Admiral Scheer, the crew escaped in three lifeboats. Admiral Scheer then turned her attention to other ships...

German flotilla. Admiral Hipper and her escorts reached their destination on 21 March. There, they joined the heavy cruisers Admiral Scheer and Prinz Eugen...

seaplane the previous day, on 5 November the weather was suitable for Admiral Scheer to utilise its air reconnaissance. A seaplane was launched at 09:40hrs...

and sunk in battle on 5 November 1940 by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer in an action which earned her captain the Victoria Cross. The ship was...

familiarisation with the heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer, under the command of Captain Wilhelm Marschall. On Admiral Scheer, he again served as first gunnery...

Faced with the arrival of Deutschland, its two sister ships Admiral Scheer and Admiral Graf Spee, the light cruisers Köln, Leipzig, and Nürnberg, and...

three British battlecruisers. In 1918, he was promoted to succeed Admiral Reinhard Scheer as commander of the High Seas Fleet. After the end of the war in...

the war, the most famous of these being the heavy cruisers Admiral Graf Spee and Admiral Scheer and the battleship Bismarck. However, the adoption of convoy...

Pocket battleships of the Deutschland class: Deutschland/Lützow, Admiral Scheer, Admiral Graf Spee. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-196-0...

Krancke, during the five-month-long raiding cruise, the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer sank 13 merchant ships, one armed merchant cruiser HMS Jervis Bay, and...

Victorious. Tirpitz, Admiral Hipper, and six destroyers sortied from Trondheim, while a second task force consisting of Lützow, Admiral Scheer, and six destroyers...

of convoy HX 84, attacked by the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer on 5 November 1940. Admiral Scheer quickly sank five ships and damaged several others...

as commerce raiders during World War II, of which Admiral Scheer was the most successful; Admiral Graf Spee was scuttled after the Battle of the River...

Scheer may refer to: Al Scheer (1888–1959), American Major League Baseball player Alexander Scheer (born 1976), German actor and musician Andrew Scheer...

ships; if Scheer had ordered an immediate turn towards Germany, he would have had to sacrifice the slower ships to make his escape. Admiral Scheer decided...

inconclusive, but the British won strategically, as it convinced Admiral Reinhard Scheer, the German fleet commander, that even a highly favorable outcome...

to Germany, and therefore, Deutschland and two further units—Admiral Scheer and Admiral Graf Spee—were built. In 1932, the Reichsmarine secured the passage...

cruiser Admiral Scheer. Jervis Bay attacked Admiral Scheer to give the convoy the chance to scatter and escape but was quickly sunk. When Admiral Scheer caught...

Formidable raided Massawa. Admiral Scheer sank the freighter Canadian Cruiser north of Madagascar. 22 February 1941: Admiral Scheer sank the freighter Rantaupandjang...

it as probably being an Admiral Hipper-class cruiser. Tovey judged that the ship was either Admiral Hipper or Admiral Scheer, and sailed with all available...

sortie in the vicinity of Iceland and the Faroes. The heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer (Kapitän zur See Theodor Krancke) would carry out another diversionary...

which dispersed on 5 November 1940 when the German cruiser Admiral Scheer attacked it. Scheer shelled and torpedoed Beaverford, sinking her with all hands...

1918, Admiral Hipper, now the commander of the entire High Seas Fleet, planned for a final battle with the Grand Fleet. Admiral Reinhard Scheer, the Chief...

Bayern briefly served as the fleet flagship, from 7 to 16 August. Admiral Reinhard Scheer planned a fleet advance for 18–19 August 1916; the operation consisted...

coal to Alexandria. On 11 March he received a message from Group West. Admiral Scheer and Hipper were to operate in the north, and German intelligence were...

(1942) – German anti-shipping operation off Novaya Zemlya by Admiral Scheer and Admiral Hipper Drachenhöhle (1944) – aborted attack on Home Fleet at Scapa...