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Battle of the North Cape
Part of World War II

German battleship Scharnhorst, c. 1939
Date26 December 1943
Location
Off the North Cape, Barents Sea
72°31′N 28°15′E / 72.517°N 28.250°E / 72.517; 28.250
Result Allied victory
Belligerents
Battle of the North Cape United Kingdom
Battle of the North Cape Canada
Battle of the North Cape Norway
Battle of the North Cape Germany
Commanders and leaders
Battle of the North Cape Bruce Fraser Battle of the North Cape Erich Bey 
Strength
1 battleship
1 heavy cruiser
3 light cruisers
8 destroyers
1 battleship
5 destroyers
Casualties and losses
21 killed
11 wounded
1 battleship slightly damaged
1 heavy cruiser damaged
1 destroyer damaged
1,932 killed
36 captured
1 battleship sunk

The Battle of the North Cape was a Second World War naval battle that occurred on 26 December 1943, as part of the Arctic campaign. The German battleship Scharnhorst, on an operation to attack Arctic convoys of war materiel from the western Allies to the Soviet Union, was brought to battle and sunk by the Royal Navy's battleship HMS Duke of York with cruisers and destroyers, including an onslaught from the destroyer HNoMS Stord of the exiled Royal Norwegian Navy, off the North Cape, Norway.

The battle was the last between British and German big-gun capital ships. The outcome increased the British advantage in major surface units. It was also the penultimate engagement between battleships in history, the last being the October 1944 Battle of Surigao Strait.[1]

  1. ^ Heogh 1986, p. 125.

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