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 | | Ordered: | | | Laid down: | 23 April 1936 | | Launched: | 22 August 1938 | | Commissioned: | 1 August 1940 | | Fate: | Scuttled at Kwajalein Atoll after nuclear weapons test, sunk summer 1946. | | Costs: | 104.5 million Reichsmark | | General characteristics | | Displacement: | 15,000 tons (Empty) 18,400 tons (Max) Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x708, 286 KB) Beschreibung: Prinz Eugen Modell Fotograf: Darkone, 1. ...
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| | Dimensions: | Length: 212.5 m Beam: 21.8 m Draft: 7.2 m | | Armament: | SK (8") 203 mm: 8
L/65 C/33 10.5 mm: 12
4 cm Flak: 17
L/83: 3.7 cm 8
MG L/64 2 cm :28
533 mm Torpedoes: 12 | | Aircraft: | Arado Ar 196: 3 | | Propulsion: | Total Performance: 136,000 shp (98 MW)
Maximum speed 33.5 knots (62.04 km/h)
Range: 7,200 miles at 20 kn | | Crew: | ~1,600 | The German cruiser Prinz Eugen (pron. 'Oy-geen') was an enlarged Admiral Hipper class heavy cruiser which served with the Kriegsmarine of Germany during World War II. The Ar 196 was a shipboard reconnaissance aircraft built by Arado starting in 1936. ...
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The Admiral Hipper class was a series of five heavy cruisers of which three served with the Kriegsmarine of Germany in World War II, one was sold unfinished to the Soviet Union in 1939, and one was converted to an aircraft carrier but never completed. ...
The term heavy cruiser is used to refer to large cruisers, a form of warship. ...
The Kriegsmarine (or War Navy) was the name of the German Navy between 1935 and 1945, during the Nazi regime, superseding the Reichsmarine. ...
Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead...
She was named after Prince Eugene of Savoy (Prinz Eugen in German). Prince Eugen von Savoyen in a contemporary painting François-Eugène, Prince of Savoy-Carignan, known as Prinz Eugen von Savoyen in German and Eugenio, Principe di Savoia in Italian (October 18, 1663 – April 24, 1736) was arguable the greatest general to serve the Habsburgs. ...
Prinz Eugen was a Hipper class heavy cruiser: like her sister ships, Admiral Hipper and Blücher, she was built in the mid-1930s. Her keel was laid at the Krupp Germania shipyard in Kiel on April 23, 1936, and she was launched on August 22, 1938, and commissioned on August 1, 1940. Considered a "lucky ship", she survived to the end of the war although she participated in only one major action at sea. The German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper fought as part of the German Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was named after Admiral Ritter von Hipper, commander of the German battlecruiser squadron during the Battle of Jutland in 1916 and later commander-in-chief of the German High Seas Fleet. ...
The German heavy cruiser Blücher ¹ was the German Kriegsmarines newest ship at the outbreak of World War II. The Blücher is most notable for being sunk on April 9, 1940, less than three years after her launch, on the first day of the invasion of Norway (Operation...
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The Krupp family, a prominent 400-year-old German dynasty from Essen, have become famous for their steel production and for their manufacture of ammunition and armaments. ...
Kiel ( ) is a city in northern Germany and the capital of the Bundesland Schleswig-Holstein. ...
April 23 is the 113th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (114th in leap years). ...
1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
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Battle of Denmark Strait
On 24 May 1941, Prinz Eugen fought alongside Bismarck in the Battle of the Denmark Strait against HMS Hood, hitting the British battlecruiser at least once and starting a huge fire, and HMS Prince of Wales, hitting that battleship three times. The Hood was sunk during the engagement and the Prince of Wales damaged but the German ships were still shadowed by British warships. Later that day she was ordered off on her own from Bismarck, escaping the British ships, and headed south to rendezvous with the tanker Spichern and prepare for eventual commerce raiding in the Atlantic. After narrowly avoiding several British heavy units which were looking for Bismarck, she arrived at Brest, France, on 1 June 1941. The port was regularly bombed by the RAF, and on the night on 1 July Prinz Eugen was hit on the port side behind the bridge. The bomb detonated in the forward main artillery command centre, killing 60 of the crew. May 24 is the 144th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (145th in leap years). ...
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Combatants Germany United Kingdom Commanders Günther Lütjens Lancelot Holland Strength 1 battleship 1 heavy cruiser 1 battleship 1 battlecruiser Casualties 1 battleship damaged 1 battlecruiser sunk 1 battleship heavily damaged The Battle of the Denmark Strait was a World War II naval engagement in which the British battleship...
HMS Hood (pennant number 51) was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy. ...
HMS Hood (left) and the battleship HMS Barham (right), in Malta, 1937. ...
HMS Prince of Wales was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy, built at the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead, England. ...
Location within France Brest, at the tip of Brittany Brest is a city in the Bretagne région, north-west France, sous-préfecture of the Finistère département. ...
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Channel Dash After the loss of Bismarck Hitler banned further Atlantic surface raids. Fearing an Allied invasion of Norway, he wanted all capital ships back in home waters. Together with the battlecruisers (or battleships) Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, Prinz Eugen made the "Channel Dash" - Operation Cerberus - back to Germany during 11 February–12 February 1942. Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945, standard German pronunciation in the IPA) was the Führer (leader) of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) and of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. ...
HMS Hood (left) and the battleship HMS Barham (right), in Malta, 1937. ...
Scharnhorst was a 31,500 tonne Gneisenau class battlecruiser of the German Kriegsmarine, named after the Prussian general and army reformer Gerhard von Scharnhorst and to commemorate the World War I armored cruiser SMS Scharnhorst. ...
Gneisenau was a 31,100 ton Scharnhorst class battlecruiser of the German Kriegsmarine. ...
Operation Cerberus (German: Zerberus) was the name given to the escape during World War II of the Kriegsmarines ships Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Prinz Eugen and a number of smaller ships from Brest to ports in Germany and Denmark via the English Channel. ...
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Prinz Eugen left Germany for Norway in February 1942. On 23 February she was torpedoed by the British submarine HMS Trident, destroying her stern. After some preliminary patch-up repairs in Trondheim, the cruiser returned to Kiel on 16 May 1942 to receive a new stern. Prinz Eugen was not operational again until January 1943. Two attempts to relocate to Norway, where she could pose a threat to Allied convoys, failed and she was assigned instead to training duties in home waters. February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
Kiel ( ) is a city in northern Germany and the capital of the Bundesland Schleswig-Holstein. ...
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Soviet patrol From August 1944 onward, Prinz Eugen was used to shell advancing Russian units along the Baltic coast and to transport German refugees back to Germany. On 15 October 1944, she collided with the light cruiser Leipzig in heavy fog in the Baltic Sea, nearly cutting the smaller ship in two. For 14 hours the two ships drifted, locked together, a target for any lurking Russian submarines, until they could be separated. Prinz Eugen was repaired at Gotenhafen (Gdynia) and continued her tasks of shelling Soviet land forces and evacuating German refugees. On 29 March 1945 she left Gotenhafen for the last time with a load of refugees, reaching Swinemünde on 8 April 1945. The ship then departed for Copenhagen arriving on 20 April 1945. Lack of fuel meant that she did not leave port again. At the end of the war, she was one of only two operational German cruisers left (the other was Nürnberg), and was surrendered at Copenhagen on 7 May 1945. October 15 is the 288th day of the year (289th in leap years). ...
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A light cruiser is a warship that is not so large and powerful as a regular (or heavy) cruiser, but still larger than ships like destroyers. ...
The German light cruiser Leipzig was the lead ship of the Leipzig class (sister ship Nürnberg). ...
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Copenhagen (IPA: , rhyming with pagan (the way the Danes themselves pronounce the name of the capital when saying it in English), or , with a as in spa; Danish IPA: ) is the capital of Denmark and the countrys largest city (metropolitan population 1,211,542 (2006)), at present made up...
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The Nürnberg was a German cruiser (later Soviet prize Admiral Makarov) named after the german city of Nuremberg. ...
Copenhagen (IPA: , rhyming with pagan (the way the Danes themselves pronounce the name of the capital when saying it in English), or , with a as in spa; Danish IPA: ) is the capital of Denmark and the countrys largest city (metropolitan population 1,211,542 (2006)), at present made up...
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USS Prinz Eugen She was awarded to the United States and commissioned into the US Navy as the unclassified miscellaneous vessel USS Prinz Eugen (IX-300). After examination and tests she was allocated to the target fleet for the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests. She survived the Able and Baker tests (July 1946) but was too radioactive to have leaks repaired. In September 1946 she was towed to Kwajalein Atoll and capsized on 22 December 1946 over Enubuj reef where she remains to this day. In 1978 her port propeller was salvaged and is preserved at the German Naval Memorial at Kiel. The IX (unclassified–miscellaneous) hull classification symbol is used for ships of the United States Navy that do not fit into one of the standard categories. ...
A 21 kiloton underwater nuclear weapons effects test, known as Operation Crossroads (Event Baker), conducted at Bikini Atoll (1946). ...
The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 km (11 mi) above the epicenter. ...
Infantry inspect a hole in the devasted Kwajalein Atoll Kwajalein Atoll is part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), 2,100 nautical miles (3900 km) southwest of Honolulu, Hawaii, at 8. ...
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Kiel ( ) is a city in northern Germany and the capital of the Bundesland Schleswig-Holstein. ...
See also The List of ships of World War II is an alphabetical list of major military ships of World War II. Only ships with a displacement of 1000 tons or greater are listed. ...
The list of Kriegsmarine ships includes all ships commissioned into the Kriegsmarine, the German navy of the Third Reich period, during its existance from 1935 to the conclusion of World War II in 1945. ...
The list of naval ships of Germany includes all naval ships which have been in service of the German Navy or its predecessors. ...
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Freiwilligen-Gebirgs-Division SS-Freiwilligen-Division Prinz Eugen SS-Freiwilligen-Gebirgs-Division Prinz Eugen 7. ...
The Admiral Hipper class was a series of five heavy cruisers of which three served with the Kriegsmarine of Germany in World War II, one was sold unfinished to the Soviet Union in 1939, and one was converted to an aircraft carrier but never completed. ...
The German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper fought as part of the German Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was named after Admiral Ritter von Hipper, commander of the German battlecruiser squadron during the Battle of Jutland in 1916 and later commander-in-chief of the German High Seas Fleet. ...
The German heavy cruiser Blücher ¹ was the German Kriegsmarines newest ship at the outbreak of World War II. The Blücher is most notable for being sunk on April 9, 1940, less than three years after her launch, on the first day of the invasion of Norway (Operation...
Seydlitz was a heavy cruiser, third in the Hipper class, but before her completion was selected to be converted into a small aircraft carrier. ...
The Lützow was a German Admiral Hipper class heavy cruiser. ...
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