D.K.M. Prinz Eugen
1941
(Neptun 1030)
- Class: Admiral Hipper - 5 heavy cruisers of 1935-37
- Displacement: 13,900 tons
- Dimensions: 654 x 71 x 15 ft
- Machinery: 3-shaft geared turbines, 132,000 SHP = 32 knots
- Armor: Belt 1.5-3in, deck 0.5-1in, turrets 2-6in, CT 2-6in
- Armament: 8-8in (4x2), 12-4.1in AA (6x2), 12-37mm AA (6x2), 8-20mm AA (8x1) guns; 12-21in (4x3) TT; 3 aircraft
- Complement: 1,600
- Builder: Germania Werft, Kiel
- Laid Down: 23 Apr 1936
- Launched: 22 Aug 1938
- Completed: 1 Aug 1940
- Actions: 23 Apr 41 Damaged by magnetic mine; 21 May 41 sailed with Bismarck from Bergen for Operation Rheineubung; 24 May 41 Battle of Denmark Strait; 1 Jun 41 To Brest; 12 Feb 42 Channel breakout with Gneisenau and Scharnhorst (Operation Cerberus). Service in Baltic in Fleet Training Squadron and in 1944 supporting army against Russians; 15 Oct 44 Badly damaged Leipzig in collision; May 45 Taken over at Copenhagen and allocated to U.S.A.; Jul 46 Atom Bomb explosion tests at Bikini Atoll; 22 Dec 1946 sank at Kwajalein.
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