A distant port broadside view of the German panzerschiff Admiral Scheer (1933) at anchor in Gibraltar Bay off the South Mole which protects Gibraltar Dockyard. The photographer is on board a passenger cruise ship in Gibraltar Bay looking east showing a Lambert Bros. Ltd general cargo ship under way bound out on the right with Europa Flats beyond her. A Royal Navy Arethusa class light cruiser is at anchor on the left with Signal Hill and Windmill Hill beyond her. The Admiral Scheer carried out five tours of duty on the Spanish non-intervention patrol between August 1936 and October 1937.