Kriegsmarine — Cruiser class
Admiral Hipper-class cruiser
Admiral Hipper class
The class in numbers
- 5 Planned
- 3 Completed
- 2 Cancelled
- 2 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Cruiser
- Navies
- Kriegsmarine 3
Soviet Navy 1 - In commission
- 1939–1945, 1946
- Preceded by
- Deutschland-class cruiser
- Succeeded by
- P-class cruiser (planned)
- Operators
- United States
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 15,915 long tons (16,170 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 18,200 long tons (18,492 t)
- Length
- 202.8 m (665.4 ft) OA
- Speed
- 32 knots (59.3 km/h, 36.8 mph)
- Complement
- 1,382
- Main gun
- 203 mm (8 in)
- Armament
- 8 × 20.3 cm guns
- 12 × 10.5 cm SK C/33 guns
- 12 × 3.7 cm SK C/30 guns
- 8 × 2 cm C/30 guns
- 12 × 53.3 cm torpedo tubes
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| German cruiser Admiral Hipper | 1939 | Scuttled 1945 | |
| German cruiser Blücher | 1939 | Sunk 1940 | |
| German cruiser Lützow (1939) | 1939 | 1939 | Scrapped 1953 |
| German cruiser Prinz Eugen | IX-300 | 1940 | Target 1946 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Admiral Hipper-class cruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.