Following standard procedure, the ship tried to flee before the cruisers overhauled the ship and identified themselves as the ship German battleship Scharnhorst 2 and ship German battleship Gneisenau 2 On 14 February 1941, as part of Operation Weserübung, Esso Hamburg shipped about 2582 meters cube of oil to the capital ship ship German battleship Scharnhorst 2 .