Admiral Hipper-class cruiser
- 8 × 3.7- cm -MK in double carriages
- 15 × 40 - mm Bofors AA- MK in single mountings
Admiral Hipper:
Prinz Eugen:
- 20 × 40 - mm Bofors AA- MK in single mountings
- 18 × 20 -mm AA- MK
The Admiral Hipper - class was a class of five heavy cruisers of the German Navy, of which only three were completed. The fourth ship with the provided name Seydlitz was to be converted to the aircraft carrier, but was not completed. The Lützow, the fifth and final ship of the Admiral Hipper - class was sold to the Soviet Union in 1940 as a shell and not completed there, but used as Wohnhulk until canceled in 1960.
The name got the class of the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper, which was actually the second ship of the class. After the first ship, who had given Blücher, delays, Admiral Hipper was completed earlier and the old Marine tradition namesake of the class.
- 2.1 Admiral Hipper
- 2.2 Blucher
- 2.3 Prinz Eugen
- 2.4 Seydlitz
- 2.5 Lützow
- 3.1 External links
- 3.2 Notes and references
Technology
Arming
The main armament consisted of eight 20.3 cm SK C/34-Geschützen in four double turrets Drh.LC/34 [A 1]. The AA armament consisted of heavy flak with twelve 10.5 cm guns SK L/65 C/33 stabilized in three axes double guns of the type C/31. The light flak comprised twelve 3.7 -inch guns in twin mountings and eight 2- mm guns in single carriage. Furthermore, twelve torpedo tubes came in four drilling kits for installing another ten torpedoes were kept in reserve. For three board aircraft, there were corresponding flight facilities, ie catapults, cranes and a hangar ( at Blucher and Admiral Hipper for an aircraft, otherwise for two aircraft).
Steam plant
Which is used at the Admiral Hipper - class high -pressure superheated steam plant leading to high fuel consumption and low operating radius. Disturbances to the sensitive turbines made the team very often to create. Also, the placement of the two turbines of the side waves in a common area was a structural weakness. So it was at the Admiral Hipper 's imagine that by a large fire in the turbine room turned out two thirds of the engine power.
Ships of the class
Admiral Hipper
See also: Admiral Hipper
- Shipyard: Blohm & Voss in Hamburg
- Keel laid: July 6, 1935
- Launched: February 6, 1937
- Commissioning: April 29, 1939
- Appearances: Company Weserübung, Juno Company, patrols in the Atlantic, mining operation in the Barents Sea, businesses Rainbow, evacuation of the Eastern Front
- Achievements: HMS Glowworm HMS Achates, minesweeper HMS Bramble, submarine hunter HMS Juniper and seven merchant ships sunk, HMS Berwick and two merchant ships damaged, a merchant ship as a prize.
- Fate: on 3 May 1945 blown up in the dock of Deutsche Werke Kiel. The wreck was later canceled in the Heikendorfer bay.
Blucher
See also: Blucher (ship, 1937)
- Shipyard: German plants in Kiel
- Keel laid: August 15, 1935
- Launched: June 8, 1937
- Year of issue: September 20, 1939
- Appearances: Company Weserübung
- Achievements: no
- Fate: On April 9, 1940 sunk in the Oslofjord in front of the fortress Oscar Borg by torpedo and artillery hit.
Prinz Eugen
See also: Prinz Eugen (1938 )
- Shipyard: Germania shipyard in Kiel
- Keel laid: April 23, 1936
- Launched: August 22, 1938
- Commissioning: August 1, 1940
- Appearances: Companionship of the battleship Bismarck during the business Rheinübung, firm Cerberus, evacuation of the Eastern Front
- Achievements: Results obtained on HMS Hood and HMS Prince of Wales.
- Fate: The Prinz Eugen was passed on 7 May 1945 to the Allies, renamed USS Prinz Eugen (IX- 300) and used for nuclear tests. They capsized on 22 December 1946 at Kwajalein Atoll.
Seydlitz
See also: Seydlitz (1939 )
- Shipyard: DESCHIMAG, AG " Weser " in Bremen
- Keel laid: December 29, 1936
- Launched: January 19, 1939
- Commissioning: Never
- Appearances: No, since 1942 conversion to the aircraft carrier
- Achievements: no
- Fate: in January 1943, the reconstruction was canceled and the unfinished ship sunk on 10 April 1945 in Königsberg.
Lützow
See also: Lützow (ship, 1939)
- Shipyard: DESCHIMAG, AG " Weser " in Bremen
- Keel laid: February 8, 1937
- Launched: July 1, 1939
- Commissioning: Never
- Appearances: No
- Achievements: no
- Fate ship was not completed sold in May 1940 to the Soviet Union, renamed Petropavlovsk, Tallinn and later scrapped in 1960.