Admiral Hipper was the lead ship of the Admiral Hipper class of heavy cruisers which served with Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. The ship...
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Admiral Hipper class was a group of five heavy cruisers built by Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine beginning in the mid-1930s. The class comprised Admiral Hipper...
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Admiral Hipper may refer to: Franz von Hipper (1863–1932), German Admiral who served in World War I Admiral Hipper, a German heavy cruiser named after...
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Franz Ritter von Hipper (13 September 1863 – 25 May 1932) was an admiral in the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine). Franz von Hipper joined the German...
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(armored ships). Four different designs—the Deutschland, D, P, and Admiral Hipper classes, comprising twenty-two ships in total—were prepared in the period...
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HMS Glowworm (H92) (section Admiral Hipper)
signalling for help. The request was soon answered by Admiral Hipper and Glowworm was spotted at 09:50. Hipper had difficulty in distinguishing Glowworm from...
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German cruiser Lützow (1939) (redirect from German cruiser Luetzow (Hipper class))
cruiser of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine, the fifth and final member of the Admiral Hipper class, but was never completed. The ship was laid down in August 1937...
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gone. The ruse worked, Admiral Hipper temporarily retired, since Kummetz had been ordered not to risk his ships. Admiral Hipper returned to make a second...
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September 1939, Admiral Scheer remained at anchor in the Schillig roadstead outside Wilhelmshaven, with the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper. On 4 September...
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chivalrously picked up by the Admiral Hipper. Lt-Cdr Roope drowned in the course of assisting the rescue of survivors. The Admiral Hipper's commander, Kapitän zur...
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would be out of action for months and Admiral Scheer was still being refitted. Blücher; one of the two Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruisers, had been sunk...
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heavy cruisers. In 1940, she was renamed Lützow, after the unfinished Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser Lützow was sold to the Soviet Union the previous...
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also convey Lütjens' order to Admiral Hipper to join the German battleships in the return journey to Germany. Admiral Hipper joined in the morning of 12...
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Hipper may refer to: Admiral Hipper (disambiguation) Admiral Franz von Hipper German cruiser Admiral Hipper River Hipper, a tributary of the River Rother...
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Erich Raeder (redirect from Admiral Erich Raeder)
of Jutland in 1916. Raeder later described Hipper as an admiral who "hated paperwork"; accordingly, Hipper delegated considerable power to Raeder, who...
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ram and damage Admiral Hipper and sent out a warning message to the British fleet. Shortly after the fight with Glowworm, Admiral Hipper and her four destroyers...
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MS Borgestad (section Encounter with Admiral Hipper)
1925. The vessel is known for having engaged the German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper to protect a convoy, where many of the vessels managed to escape thanks...
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between 30 November and 27 December 1940 by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper. It was part of the Battle of the Atlantic of World War II, with the...
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on 23 November. Both battleships, accompanied by the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper and two destroyers, sortied to attack convoys travelling between the...
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German cruiser Blücher (category Admiral Hipper-class cruisers)
Blücher was the second of five Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruisers of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine (lit. 'War Navy'), built after the rise of the Nazi Party...
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battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the first two Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruisers Admiral Hipper and Blücher received each four SL-6's. Apart from...
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the morning of 31 December when the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper attacked the convoy. Admiral Hipper was first held at bay by the British destroyers HMS Onslow...
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destroyer that served in World War II, engaging the German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper on 31 December 1942 (Battle of the Barents Sea). She was broken up in...
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launched on 22 July 1935, sunk on 8 April 1940 by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper off Norway. Glowworm was allocated to a G-class destroyer under construction...
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between 24 September and 28 September 1942 by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper escorted by the destroyers Z23, Z28, Z29 and Z30, because the British...
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Deutschland-class cruiser (section Admiral Scheer)
deck would have been only 10 meters (33 ft) shorter than that of the Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser Seydlitz, which had been prepared for conversion...
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The 20.3 cm SK C/34 was the main battery gun used on the German Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruisers. These built-up guns consisted of a rifled tube encased...
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hospital ship Atlantis. Juniper was sunk by gunfire from Admiral Hipper. Marschall then sent Admiral Hipper and the destroyers to Trondheim to refuel. Later that...
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German cruiser Seydlitz (category Admiral Hipper-class cruisers)
Seydlitz was a heavy cruiser of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine, fourth in the Admiral Hipper class, but was never completed. The ship was laid down in December 1936...
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cruiser Admiral Hipper and ten destroyers. With intelligence suggesting that the Germans were massing ships, the British sent out a squadron under Admiral Sir...
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