List of Kriegsmarine ships

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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.

Major warships[]

Battleships[]

  • Bismarck class (42,000 tons, 8 × 380 mm guns)
    • Bismarck, Laid down, 1936, Commissioned 1939, Completed 1940. Sunk in battle 1941
    • Tirpitz, Laid down 1936, Commissioned 1939 Completed 1941. Sunk by bombing 1944
  • Scharnhorst class (32,000 tons, 9 × 280 mm guns)
    • Scharnhorst, Laid down 1934, Commissioned 1936, Completed January 1939. Sunk in battle 1943
    • Gneisenau, Laid down 1934, Commissioned 1936, Completed May 1938. Out of combat service from 1942. Sunk as blockship 1945.

Pre-dreadnought battleships[]

  • Deutschland class (15,000 tons, 4 × 280mm guns)
    • Hannover, 1905. Decommissioned 1931. Used in explosive tests. Scrapped 1944-1946.
    • Schleswig-Holstein, 1906. Sunk by bombing, 1944.
    • Schlesien, 1906. Mined and sunk, 1945.

Heavy cruisers[]

  • Admiral Hipper class (14,000 tons, 8 × 203 mm guns)
    • Admiral Hipper, Laid down 1935, Commissioned 1937, Completed 1939*, Scuttled 1945.
    • Blücher, Commissioned 1937. Sunk in battle 1940.
    • Prinz Eugen, Laid down 1936, Commissioned 1938, Completed 1940*, Sunk after Operation Crossroads 1946
  • Deutschland class (12,000 tons, 6 × 280 mm guns)
    • Deutschland (renamed Lützow), Laid Down, 1929, Commissioned 1931, Completed 1933, Disabled 1945, Raised and Sunk as Target 1947.
    • Admiral Scheer, Laid down 1931, Commissioned 1933, Completed 1934*, Sunk by Bombing 1945.
    • Admiral Graf Spee, Laid down 1932, Commissioned 1934, Scuttled 1939.

Light cruisers[]

  • Emden class (6,000 tons, 8 × 150 mm guns)
    • Emden, Laid down 1921, Commissioned 1925*, Scuttled 1945.
  • Königsberg class (7,200 tons, 9 × 150 mm guns)
    • Königsberg, Commissioned 1927. Sank 1940
    • Karlsruhe, Commissioned 1927. Sank 1940
    • Köln, Laid down 1926, Commissioned 1928, Completed 1930*, Sunk by Bombing 1945.
  • Leipzig class (8,000 tons, 9 × 150 mm guns)
    • Leipzig, laid down 1928, Commissioned 1929, Completed 1931*, Scuttled 1946.
    • Nürnberg, Laid down 1934, Commissioned 1935*, Given to Soviet Navy 1945 and renamed Admiral Makarov. Sold for Scrap 1960.

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Destroyers and torpedo boats[]

Destroyers[]

Main article: German World War II destroyers
  • Type 1934 (3,155 tons, 5 × 127 mm guns)
    • Z1 Leberecht Maass, 1937, sunk in battle 1940
    • Z2 Georg Thiele, 1937, disabled and beached 1940
    • Z3 Max Schultz, 1937, sunk in battle 1940
    • Z4 Richard Beitzen, 1937, captured at the end of WWII scrapped 1949
  • Type 1934A (Commissioned 1937–1939)
    • Z5 Paul Jakobi, captured at the end of WWII scrapped 1954
    • Z6 Theodor Riedel, captured at the end of WWII scrapped 1958
    • Z7 Hermann Schoemann, damaged in battle and scuttled 1942
    • Z8 Bruno Heinemann, sunk by mines 1942
    • Z9 Wolfgang Zenker, damaged in battle and scuttled 1940
    • Z10 Hans Lody, captured at the end of WWII scrapped 1949
    • Z11 Bernd von Arnim, damaged in battle and scuttled 1940
    • Z12 Erich Giese, sunk in battle 1940
    • Z13 Erich Koellner, damaged in battle and scuttled 1940
    • Z14 Friedrich Ihn, captured at the end of WWII scrapped 1952
    • Z15 Erich Steinbrinck, captured at the end of WWII scrapped 1958
    • Z16 Friedrich Eckoldt, sunk in battle 1942
  • Type 1936
    • Z17 Diether von Roeder, damaged in battle and scuttled 1940
    • Z18 Hans Lüdemann, damaged in battle and scuttled 1940
    • Z19 Hermann Künne, scuttled 1940
    • Z20 Karl Galster, captured at the end of WWII scrapped 1958
    • Z21 Wilhelm Heidkamp, sunk in battle 1940
    • Z22 Anton Schmitt, sunk in battle 1940
  • Type 1936A (Narvik)
    • Z23 through Z30
  • Type 1936A (Mob)
    • Z31 through Z34
    • Z37 through Z39
  • Type 1936B
    • Z35
    • Z36
    • Z43
    • Z45
  • Type 1936C
    • Z46
    • Z47

Torpedo boats[]

Main article: German torpedo boats of World War II
  • Torpedoboot 1923 ("Raubvogel") (900 tons, 3 × 105 mm guns)
    • Möwe
    • Falke
    • Greif
    • Kondor
    • Albatros
    • Seeadler
  • Torpedoboot 1924 ("Raubtier") (950 tons, 3 × 105 mm guns)
    • Wolf
    • Iltis
    • Jaguar
    • Leopard
    • Luchs
    • Tiger
  • Torpedoboot 1935 (1,090 tons, 1 × 105 mm gun)
    • T1 through T12
  • Torpedoboot 1937 (1,150 tons, 1 × 105 mm gun)
    • T13 through T21
  • Flottentorpedoboot 1939 (Elbing) (1,750 tons, 4 × 105 mm guns)
    • T22 through T36

Auxiliary cruisers[]

Mine warfare craft[]

Minelayers[]

  • 1935 (5,500 tons, 3 × 150mm guns, 460 mines)
  • 1936 (3,900 tons, 3 × 105mm guns, 250 mines)
  • 1941 (2,000 tons, 2 × 88mm guns, 200 mines)
  • 1934 (1,800 tons, 2 × 105mm guns, 260 mines)
  • 1942 (3,152 tons, 4 x 20mm guns, 80 mines)[2][3]
  • Drache 1924 (1,800 tons, 2 × 88mm 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)
  • 1934 (1,200 tons, 2 × 88mm guns, 145 mines)
  • Kamerun 1939 (370 tons, 2 × 88mm guns, 100 mines)
  • Togo 1939 (370 tons, 2 × 88mm guns, 100 mines)
  • Kiebitz 1943

Sperrbrecher[]

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

Minesweeper[]

Main article: M-class minesweeper (Germany)
  • M1935 class (875 tons, 2 × 105mm guns)
    • M1 – M69
  • M1940 class (775 tons, 1 × 105mm gun)
    • M70 – M196
  • M1943 class (825 tons, 2 × 105mm guns)
    • M197 – M214

R Boats[]

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

Mine hunters[]

  • KM1 – KM36

Small craft[]

S-boats[]

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

U-boats[]

Training submarines[]

  • Type I

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[]

  • Cap Arcona, 1927
  • Deutschland, 1923
  • Goya, 1940
  • General von Steuben, 1923
  • Wilhelm Gustloff, 1937
  • Hamburg, 1926
  • Pretoria, 1936
  • Albert Ballin/Hansa, 1923

Artillery training ships[]

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

Torpedo training ships[]

Radio-controlled targets[]

  • Braunschweig class
    • Hessen, 1900
  • Wittelsbach class

Sail training ships[]

  • Niobe, 1913
  • Gorch Fock, 1933 (Russian training ship Tovarishch)
  • Horst Wessel, 1936 (US Coast Guard Ship Eagle)
  • Albert Leo Schlageter, 1937 (Portuguese training ship Sagres)
  • Der schwarzer Husar (Polish training ship Zawisza Czarny)

Floating anti-aircraft batteries[]

  • Arcona
  • Medusa
  • Ariadne (ex-Dutch HNLMS Hertog Hendrik coastal defense ship)
  • Niobe (ex-Dutch HNLMS Gelderland (1898) cruiser)
  • Nymphe (ex-Norwegian HNoMS Tordenskjold coastal defense ship)
  • Thetis (ex-Norwegian HNoMS Harald Haarfagre coastal defense ship)

Escort[]

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

  • Doggerbank

Weather ships[]

  • Adolf Vinnen (WBS 5)
  • August Wriedt (WBS 8)
  • (WBS 7 / WBS 14)
  • Coburg (WBS 2 )
  • Externsteine (WBS 11)
  • Hermann / Sachsen (WBS 1)
  • Hessen (WBS 11 / WBS 8)
  • Hinrich Freese (WBS 4)
  • (WBS 5)
  • Fritz Homann (WBS 3 / WBS 4)
  • Kehdingen WBS 6)
  • Carl J. Busch (WBS 3)
  • Lauenburg (WBS 3)
  • (WBS 9)
  • (WBS 10)
  • (WBS 6)
  • (WBS 5)
  • Sachsenwald (WBS 7)
  • (WBS 10)
  • (WBS 10)
  • (WBS 12)
  • (WBS 1)

Hospital ships[]

  • Mars

Fleet Tenders[]

Patrol boats[]

Main article: Vorpostenboot

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.[5]
  • Four Norwegian Sleipner-class destroyers, HNoMS Gyller (1938), HNoMS Odin (1939), HNoMS Tor (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*[6]

Heavy cruisers[]

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

Destroyers[]

  • Zerstörer 1936C
  • Zerstörer 1938A/Ac
  • Zerstörer 1938B
  • Zerstörer 1942: Z51 launched 1944, but bombed and never completed
  • Zerstörer 1944
  • Zerstörer 1945
  • Spähkreuzer

Torpedo boats[]

  • Flottentorpedoboot 1940 (Never completed)
  • Flottentorpedoboot 1941 (Never completed)
  • Flottentorpedoboot 1944 (Never completed)

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
  1. ^ * Janes Fighting Ships of World War Two. 1994 reprint of 1945/46 edition, Crescent Books, Random House, New York
  2. ^ Neculai Pădurariu, Reinhart Schmelzkopf, Die See-Handelsschiffe Rumäniens
  3. ^ H. T. Lenton, German warships of the Second World War, p. 374
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h "11. Vorpostenflottille" (in Polish). Piotr Mierzejewski. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
  5. ^ "NIELS IUEL i tysk tjeneste (1943-1945) En: NIELS JUEL in German service (1943-1945), Søren Nørby".
  6. ^ Breyer, Stephen, "German Aircraft Carriers", Schiffer Publishing Co, Atglen, PA
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