aircraft carrier Shinyo in 1942; sunk 1944 by US submarine USS Spadefish. AG Weser 1935: geared-turbine ocean liner Gneisenau for Norddeutscher Lloyd. Sunk...
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Scharnhorst and Gneisenau Rheinübung ("Rhine exercise") (1941) – breakout by Bismarck and Prinz Eugen Doppelschlag ("Double blow") (1942) – anti-shipping...
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SS Gneisenau was a 18,160 gross register tons (GRT) Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) ocean liner that was launched and completed in 1935. Like several other...
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Channel Dash (category Conflicts in 1942)
Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen and their escorts was evacuated from Brest in Brittany to German ports. Scharnhorst and Gneisenau had arrived...
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German auxiliary cruiser Komet (category Maritime incidents in October 1942)
intended for service as a commerce raider. Known to the Kriegsmarine as Schiff 45, to the Royal Navy she was named Raider B. After completing one successful...
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Japan in 1942 and rebuilt as auxiliary aircraft carrier Shinyo, sunk 1944 by USS Spadefish (SS-411) 1937, Passenger-cargo ship SS Gneisenau, sister ship...
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along with several passenger liners. These included Europa, Potsdam, and Gneisenau. The unfinished French cruiser De Grasse was also to be converted. As...
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"Channel Dash" by Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, which took place from 12 February 1942, three Beaufort units, with 33 serviceable...
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trials. Bremen was built by the new German shipbuilding company Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau. She was built from 7,000 tons of high-strength steel...
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SS Donau (1929) (category Maritime incidents in December 1942)
grounding in 1942. Two Norwegian resistance divers sank her in 1945. Her wreck was raised and scrapped in 1952. In 1928–29 Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau...
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support Operation Cerberus, the movement of the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen through the English Channel. These caused...
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Operation Donnerkeil (category February 1942 events)
Sea or Germany. The surviving ships, the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the cruiser Prinz Eugen, docked in the port of Brest, France. Throughout...
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January 1942 and was followed by her sisters as they finished working up. They joined the escort force for the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the...
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the Battle of the Atlantic. The two fast battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau had just completed a similar operation, code-named Berlin, between January...
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Scharnhorst and Gneisenau HMS Ark Royal (91) south east of Gibraltar 13 November 1941 Sunk by U-81 HMS Hermes (95) Sri Lanka 9 April 1942 Sunk by Japanese...
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Gneisenau and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen fighter protection in the breakout from Brest to Germany. The Channel Dash operation (11–13 February 1942)...
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eclectic Renaissance Revival style with a tower. It was sold in 1942 to Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau and when the company was broken up into its constituent...
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late 1941. Hannover was a 5,537 GRT cargo liner built by Bremer Vulkan Schiff- und Maschinenbau, Vegesack and launched on 29 March 1939. She was owned...
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became much more important once heavy German warships like Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and Prinz Eugen arrived there in 1941. On 15 December 1940, Thunderbolt...
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instance, Gneisenau was torpedoed on 28 March, went into drydock, and was again bombed on 10 April. The air raids continued throughout 1941 and into 1942, with...
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Mediterranean during their now-concluded Spain patrols, and the new battleship Gneisenau coming from Germany, the German forces started a major fleet exercise...
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1942 before rejoining the 5th Flotilla. They joined the escort force for Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen on 12 February 1942...
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service from January to April 1942. On 4 April, Schlesien sailed back to Gotenhafen in company with the battleship Gneisenau and the icebreaker Castor. Schlesien...
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German cruiser in Qingdao; Spee's two armored cruisers, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, were cruising in the South Pacific and Leipzig was en route to replace...
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SMS Zähringen (German: Seiner Majestät Schiff Zähringen; English: His Majesty's Ship Zähringen) was the third Wittelsbach-class pre-dreadnought battleship...
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duties until January 1942 when she rejoined the 5th Flotilla in the West. The flotilla joined the escort force for Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and the heavy cruiser...
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German trawler V 1302 John Mahn (category Maritime incidents in February 1942)
escort the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen and the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau from Brittany through the English Channel to German ports. The six Vorpostenboote...
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Hans Georg (2002). Panzerschiff Deutschland, Schwerer Kreuzer Lützow: ein Schiffs-Schicksal vor den Hintergründen seiner Zeit (in German). Hamburg: Koehler...
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on 26 June and was put to use as the fishing trawler Bris. On 3 February 1942, she entered Kriegsmarine service with 3 Vorpostenflotille as the vorpostenboot...
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flotilla joined the escort force for Gneisenau, Scharnhorst and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen on 12 February 1942 off Cap Gris-Nez during the Channel Dash...
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