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| Product code: | 85083 |
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| Number: | G1000850830 |
| Country: | Saksa |
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Includes 2 ships.
The PRINZ EUGEN was launched on 22 August 1938 by the Germaniawert in
Kiel and was commissioned on 1 August 1940. Her best known operation was
the „Operation Rheinübung“ in May 1941. On 24 May, HMS Hood and HMS
Prince of Wales got into an engagement with the Prinz Eugen and the
Bismarck, during which the Hood was sunk and the Prince of Wales heavily
damaged. Assigned to the United States as spoils of war, she ended her
service in nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll „Operation Crossroads“, during
which she sank heavily damaged on 22 December 1946. The ADMIRAL HIPPER
was launched on 6 February 1937 at the BLOHM und VOSS AG shipyard in
Hamburg and entered service on 29 April 1939. Several attacks on Allied
convoys, including „Operation Rösselsprung“ from 2 to 5 July 1942
against the Anglo-American convoy PQ 17 together with the Tirpitz, the
Admiral Scheer and smaller units, resulted in damage on 30 December, so
that the Admiral Hipper was temporarily decommissioned in Wilhelmshaven
at the beginning of 1943. On 3 May 1945, the Admiral Hipper was badly
hit by British aircraft during heavy air raids in the Kiel dry dock and
later blown up by her own crew.
