Ship Main guns Displacement Propulsion Service Laid down Commissioned Fate Scharnhorst 9 × 28 cm (11 in)[75] 38,100 long tons (38,700 t)[75] 3 screws, steam turbines, 31.5 kn (58.3 km/h; 36.2 mph)[75] 1935[75] 7 January 1939[76] Sunk at the Battle of North Cape, 26 December 1943[76] Gneisenau 9 × 28 cm (11 in)[75] 38,100 long tons (38,700 t)[75] 3 screws, steam turbines, 31.2 kn (57.8 km/h; 35.9 mph)[75] 1935[75] 21 May 1938[76] Scuttled in Gotenhafen in 1945, raised and scrapped in 1951[76]