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List of Kriegsmarine ships

The list of Kriegsmarine ships includes all ships commissioned into the Kriegsmarine, the navy of Nazi Germany, during its existence from 1935 to the conclusion of World War II in 1945.

See the list of naval ships of Germany for ships in German service throughout the country's history.


Capital ships

Pre-dreadnought battleships

ClassDisplacement
(standard)		Main batterySpeedShipImageCommis-
sioned		Fate
Deutschland class15,000 tons4 × 11-in.18 knHannover
Oct 1907Scrapped between 1944 and 1946
19.1 knSchleswig-Holstein
Jul 1908Scuttled, Mar 1945
18.5 knSchlesien
May 1908Mined off Swinemünde in May 1945

Modern battleships

ClassDisplacement
(standard)		Main batterySpeedShipImageCommis-
sioned		War loss
Bismarck classBismarck: 41,700 tons
Tirpitz: 42,900 tons		8 × 15-in.30 knBismarck
Aug 1940Scuttled following incapacitating battle damage,
May 1941
Tirpitz
Feb 1941Sunk by air attack,
Nov 1944
Scharnhorst class32,100 tons9 × 11-in.31 knScharnhorst
Jan 1939Sunk by gunfire,
Dec 1943
Gneisenau
May 1938Sunk as a blockship,
Mar 1945

Cruisers

Heavy cruisers

ClassDisplacement
(standard)		Main batterySpeedShipImageCommis-
sioned		War lossPostwar
Deutschland class14,290 tons6 × 11-in.28 knDeutschland;
renamed Lützow
Jan 1940
Apr 1933Air attack Baltic Sea,
Apr 1945
Admiral Scheer
Nov 1934Air attack Kiel,
Apr 1945
Admiral Graf Spee
Jan 1936Scuttled Montevideo,
Dec 1939
Admiral Hipper class18,200 tons8 × 8-in.32 knAdmiral Hipper
Apr 1939Scuttled Kiel,
May 1945
Blücher
Sep 1939Sunk Drøbak Sound,
Apr 1940
Prinz Eugen
Aug 1940Prize of US

Light cruisers

ClassDisplacement
(standard)		Main batterySpeedShipImageCommis-
sioned		War lossPostwar
Emden6,990 tons8 × 5.9-in.29.5 knEmden
Oct 1925Scuttled Heikendorf,
May 1945
Königsberg class7,700 tons9 × 5.9-in.32 knKönigsberg
Apr 1929Air attack Bergen,
Apr 1940
Karlsruhe
Nov 1929Scuttled off Kristiansand,
Apr 1940
Köln
Jan 1930Air attack Wilhelmshaven,
Mar 1945
Leipzig class8,900 tons**9 × 5.9-in.32 knLeipzig
Oct 1931Scuttled,
Jun 1946
Nürnberg
Nov 1935Prize of USSR


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Destroyers and torpedo boats

Named destroyers

ClassDisplace-
ment		Torpedo
load		SpeedImageShipWar lossPostwar
Type 1934
destroyers		3,155 tons8 × 21-in.36 kn
Z1 Leberecht MaassSunk, Feb 1940
Z2 Georg ThieleBeached, Apr 1940
Z3 Max SchultzSunk w all hands, Feb 1940
Z4 Richard BeitzenScrapped, 1949
Type 1934A
destroyers		2,270 tons8 × 21-in.36 kn
Z5 Paul JakobiScrapped, 1954
Z6 Theodor RiedelScrapped, 1958
Z7 Hermann SchoemannScuttled, May 1942
Z8 Bruno HeinemannMined, Jan 1942
Z9 Wolfgang ZenkerScuttled, Apr 1940
Z10 Hans LodyScrapped, 1949
Z11 Bernd von ArnimScuttled, Apr 1940
Z12 Erich GieseSunk, Apr 1940
Z13 Erich KoellnerScuttled, Apr 1940
Z14 Friedrich IhnScrapped, 1952
Z15 Erich SteinbrinckScrapped, 1958
Z16 Friedrich EckoldtSunk, Dec 1942
Type 1936
destroyers		3,470 tons8 × 21-in.36 kn
Z17 Diether von RoederScuttled, Apr 1940
Z18 Hans LüdemannScuttled, Apr 1940
Z19 Hermann KünneScuttled, Apr 1940
Z20 Karl GalsterScrapped, 1958
Z21 Wilhelm HeidkampSunk, Apr 1940
Z22 Anton SchmittSunk, Apr 1940

Numbered destroyers

ClassDisplace-
ment		Torpedo
load		SpeedImageShipWar lossPostwar
Type 1936A (Narvik)
destroyers		2,657 tons8 × 21-in.36 kn
Z23Scuttled, Aug 1944
Z24Air attack, Aug 1944
Z25Prize of France
Z26Sunk, Mar 1942
Z27Sunk, Dec 1943
Z28Air attack, Mar 1945
Z29Scuttled, 1946
Z30Scrapped, 1948
Type 1936A (Mob)2,657 tons8 × 21-in.36 kn
Z31Prize of France
Z32Grounded, Jun 1944
Z33Prize of USSR
Z34Scuttled, 1946
Z37Scuttled, Aug 1944
Z38Prize of UK
Z39Prize of US
Type 1936B destroyer3,542 tons8 × 21-in.36 knNo image availableZ35Mined, Dec 1944
Z36Mined, Dec 1944
Z43Scuttled, May 1945
Z45Scrapped, 1946
Type 1936C destroyer3,625 tons8 × 21-in.37.5 knNo image availableZ46Blown up, 1945
Z47Blown up, 1945

Torpedo boats

The Type 39 torpedo boat T35 in American service as DD-935

Auxiliary cruisers

Mine warfare craft

Minelayers

  • Tannenberg 1935 (5,500 tons, 3 × 150 mm guns, 460 mines)
  • Brandenburg 1936 (3,900 tons, 3 × 105 mm guns, 250 mines)
  • Lothringen 1941 (2,000 tons, 2 × 88 mm guns, 200 mines)
  • Niedersachsen 1934 (1,800 tons, 2 × 105 mm guns, 260 mines)
  • Hansestadt Danzig 1939 (2,431 tons, 2 × 88 mm guns, 360 mines)
  • Romania 1942 (3,152 tons, 4 x 20 mm guns, 80 mines)[2][3]
  • Drache 1924 (1,800 tons, 2 × 88 mm guns, 120 mines)
  • Brummer 1940 (3 × 10.5 cm guns, 2 × 3.7 cm anti-aircraft guns, 10 × 2 cm anti-aircraft guns, 4 × 46 cm torpedo tubes, 280 mines)
  • Oldenburg 1934 (1,200 tons, 2 × 88 mm guns, 145 mines)
  • Kamerun 1939 (370 tons, 2 × 88 mm guns, 100 mines)
  • Togo 1939 (370 tons, 2 × 88 mm guns, 100 mines)
  • Kiebitz 1943

Sperrbrecher

  • Sperrbrecher 1 – Sperrbrecher 100 (5,000 tons, 2 × 88 mm guns)

Minesweeper

  • M1935 class (875 tons, 2 × 105 mm guns)
    • M1 – M69
  • M1940 class (775 tons, 1 × 105 mm gun)
    • M70 – M196
  • M1943 class (825 tons, 2 × 105 mm guns)
    • M197 – M214

R Boats

  • R1 class 1929 (60 tons, 1 × 37 mm gun, 6 mines)
    • R1 – R16
  • R17 class 1934 (115 tons, 1 × 37 mm gun, 12 mines)
    • R17 – R24
  • R25 class 1938 (110 tons, 1 × 37 mm gun, 12 mines)
    • R25 – R40
  • R41 class 1939 (125 tons, 1 × 37 mm gun, 12 mines)
    • R41 – R129
  • R130 class 1940 (150 tons, 1 × 37 mm gun, 12 mines)
    • R130 – R150
  • R151 class 1940 (125 tons, 1 × 37 mm gun, 12 mines)
    • R151 – R217
  • R218 class 1942 (140 tons, 1 × 37 mm gun, 16 mines)
    • R218 – R300
  • R301 class 1942 (160 tons, 1 × 88 mm gun, 16 mines, 2 torpedo tubes)
    • R301 – R312

Mine hunters

  • KM1 – KM36

Small craft

S-boats

  • S1 class (50 tons, 1 × 20 mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
    • S1 – S25
  • S26 class (75 tons, 1 × 20 mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
    • S26 – S29
  • S30 class (80 tons, 1 × 20 mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
    • S30 – S37
  • S38 class (80 tons, 1 × 20 mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
    • S38 – S60
  • S38b class (90 tons, 2 × 20 mm guns, 2 torpedo tubes)
    • S61 – S99
  • S100 class (100 tons, 1 × 37 mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
    • S100 – S150
  • S151 class (100 tons, 1 × 37 mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
    • S151 – S205

U-boats

Training submarines

Coastal submarines

Ocean-going submarines

Minelaying submarines

Supply submarines

Electric boats

Midget submarines

  • Seehund (17 tons, 2 × torpedoes)
    • 138 commissioned
  • Hecht (Training)
    • 53 commissioned
  • Biber (6.5 tons, 2 × torpedoes)
    • 324 commissioned
  • Molch (11 tons, 2 × torpedoes)
    • 393 commissioned
  • Delphin (Prototype)
    • 3 commissioned
  • Seeteufel (Prototype)
    • 1 commissioned
  • Schwertwal (Prototype)
    • 1 commissioned

Human torpedoes

  • Neger (1 × torpedo)
    • 200 commissioned
  • Marder (3 tons, 1 × torpedo)
    • 500 commissioned
  • Hai (Prototype)
    • 1 commissioned

Auxiliary ships

Troop ships

Artillery training ships

  • Bremse 1933 (1,800 tons, 4 × 127 mm guns)
  • Brummer 1934 (3,000 tons, 8 × 105 mm guns, 480 mines)

Torpedo training ships

Radio-controlled targets

Sail training ships

Aviso

Floating anti-aircraft batteries

Escort

  • F class (700 tons, 2 × 105 mm guns)
    • F 1 – F 10
  • PA class (925 tons, 1 × 105 mm gun)
    • PA 1 – PA 4

Gunboats

  • LS1 – LS12
  • The Following Gunboats were generally armed with one 5.9 inch, two 37mm (1×2) and six 20mm (6×1) guns.
    • August 400 tons Launched 1936
    • Berkelstrom
    • Cascade 338 tons Launched 1937
    • Globe 314 tons Launched 1937
    • Hast I
    • Helene 400 tons Launched 1937
    • Joost
    • Kemphaan 343 tons Launched 1936
    • Nijnberg
    • Oostzee 336 tons Launched 1936
    • Ost 565 tons Launched 1939
    • Paraat
    • Polaris 322 tons Launched 1936
    • Robert Muller 399 tons Launched 1936
    • Soemba
    • Trompenberg
    • West
    • West Vlaanderen 346 tons Launched 1927

Blockade runners/Auxiliary minelayers

Weather ships

Hospital ships

Fleet Tenders

Patrol boats

Many vessels were requisitioned for use as vorpostenboote during the war.

Icebreakers

Captured foreign warships

A significant number of foreign warships were captured and recommissioned into the Kriegsmarine.

  • Clemenceau, French battleship captured in 1940 while still under construction, but never completed. With Brest, France shipyard and drydock flooded and always under Allied bombers, it could never be completed.
  • Faà di Bruno, laid down 1915, captured 1943, commissioned as monitor Biber, surrendered in 1945 and broken up.
  • Sovetskaya Ukraina, laid down 1938, captured 1941 (never completed)
  • HNLMS O 8, captured in 1940, taken into service as UD-1 used as training ship to train crews for the German U-boats. Decommissioned in 1943.
  • HMS Seal, captured 1940, taken into service as UB
  • The Danish training ship/coastal defense ship HDMS Niels Juel (1918) was refloated after an attempted destruction of the ship via running aground during Battle of Isefjord, disarmed and used as a training ship renamed Nordland by the Kriegsmarine. Scuttled a second time 3 May 1945, scrapped 1952.[6]
  • Four Norwegian Sleipner-class destroyers, HNoMS Gyller (1938), HNoMS Odin (1939), HNoMS Tor (1939), & HNoMS Balder (1939) were captured in 1940. All four ships saw service in the Kriegsmarine.
  • Four French Flower-class corvettes, Arquebuse, Hallebarde, Sabre, & Poignard were captured in 1940 following the Fall of France. All except Poignard were completed and entered service as "Patrol vessels" PA 1 to PA 4 (the latter saw no service).
  • HNLMS Gerard Callenburgh was scuttled to prevent her capture in 1940, but was nevertheless raised and commissioned into the Kriegsmarine as ZH1 in 1942.
  • RHS Vasilefs Georgios was scuttled to prevent her captured in 1941, but was raised and commissioned into the Kriegsmarine as Hermes in 1942.
  • French destroyer L'Opiniâtre was captured while still under construction. Germany intended to completed her, but construction was halted in 1943 and broken up for scrap that year.
  • HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën (C802) and HNLMS De Ruyter (C801) light cruisers were captured in 1940 while still under construction. Renamed as KH1 and KH2 ("KH" means "Kreuzer Holland"), modified to fit an Atlantic Bow and redesigned for new German armament. Work was resume to be completed, but with very slow progress due to sabotage from the Dutch Resistance. KH1 was launched in 1944 to be use as blockship. Both ships were completed with a modernized post WW II design and commissioned into Dutch service in 1953.
  • KB Dalmacija was a WW1 Imperial Germany light cruiser (SMS Niobe), sold to Yugoslavia in 1925 (KB Dalmacija), captured by Italy in 1941 (RN Cattaro), then by Germany following the Italian Armistice in 1943 and renamed Niobe. She was sunk by British torpedo boats.
  • KB Dubrovnik was captured first by Italy in 1941 (RN Premuda), then by German following the Italian Armistice in 1943 (TA 32). She was scuttled in Genoa in 1945 following the Battle of the Ligurian Sea.
  • KB Beograd was captured first by Italy in 1941 (RN Sebenico), then by German following the Italian Armistice in 1943 (TA 43). She was sunk in Trieste, though sources vary of how so.
  • KB T3 was captured first by Italy, then by German following the Italian Armistice in 1943. She was sunk by Allied aircraft in February 1945.
  • Four Yugoslav Orjen-class torpedo boat (KB Velebit, KB Dinara, KB Triglav and KB Rudnik) were captured first by Italy in 1941 (MS 42, MS 43, MS 44 and MS 46), then by German following the Italian Armistice in 1943 (S 601, S 602, S 603 and S 604). All four were scuttled in 1944.
  • KB Zmaj was captured in 1941 and used as a troop transport until her sinking in 1944.
  • Yugoslav minelayer D2 was captured first by Italy, then by German following the Italian Armistice in 1943. She was sunk in 1944.

Unfinished ships

Aircraft carriers

  • Graf Zeppelin class
    • Graf Zeppelin, Laid down 1936, commissioned 1938 (85% complete at start of war, never completed)*
    • Flugzeugträger B, Laid Down 1938, never launched, broken up 1940*[7]

Heavy cruisers

  • Seydlitz, (uncompleted, intended for conversion into light aircraft carrier, but never completed)
  • Lützow, (sold uncompleted to Soviet Union in 1940)

Destroyers

Torpedo boats

A multitude of other ships also remained unfinished by the end of the war: escorts, gunboats, landing craft, fleet tenders, AA batteries, training ships, auxiliary ships, patrol boats, minelayers, mine hunters, fast torpedo attack boats (E-Boats) and more.

See also

List of ships of the Second World War

References

  • Janes Fighting Ships of World War Two. 1994 reprint of 1945/46 edition, Crescent Books, Random House, New York
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