The Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen became one of the most famous German surface ships of the war, fighting alongside Bismarck and later operating in the Baltic. After Germany’s ...

A rolling rule, used as a navigational instrument by sailors of the Kriegsmarine during WWII, in heavy dark wood. It was taken as a token of victory, by my father, a sailor aboard HMS Devonshire, from ...

After a month and a half, the Navy, in partnership with the Army and the Republic of the Marshall Islands, safely recovered oil from the capsized World War II German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen in ...

The naval commander of the German warships finds no one to surrender to in Copenhagen, as the world celebrates victory in Europe Copenhagen, 7 May Germany’s last two seaworthy big warships, the ...

Scharnhorst remained at Kiel for most of 1942. In early 1943, it proceeded to Norway with Prinz Eugen (Gneisenau had been badly damaged by an RAF attack on Kiel, and would not return to service).

The high seas were dangerous places during World War II, an unforgiving expanse where nations vied for supremacy, just as they fought each other on land and in the skies. Military ships of all types ...