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| Torpedo boat Jaguar underway, probably in the Baltic Sea, 1934-1935 | Horst Wessel in the Baltic Sea while sailing from Pillau, Germany (now Baltijsk, Russia) to Sassnitz, Rügen island, Germany, 23 Jul 1937 | Scharnhorst's forward guns frozen in ice, Baltic Sea, circa Jan 1940 | Scharnhorst's icy foredeck, Baltic Sea, Jan 1940, photo 1 of 2 |
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| Scharnhorst's icy foredeck, Baltic Sea, Jan 1940, photo 2 of 2 | Battleship Schlesien in the western Baltic Sea, late Jan 1940 |
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