List of Kriegsmarine ships

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.

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Major warships

Battleships

Pre-dreadnought battleships

Heavy cruisers

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

Torpedo boats
Main article: German torpedo boats of World War II

Auxiliary cruisers

Mine warfare craft

Minelayers
  • Tannenberg 1935 (5,500 tons, 3 × 150mm guns, 460 mines)
  • Brandenburg 1936 (3,900 tons, 3 × 105mm guns, 250 mines)
  • Lothringen 1941 (2,000 tons, 2 × 88mm guns, 200 mines)
  • Niedersachsen 1934 (1,800 tons, 2 × 105mm guns, 260 mines)
  • Romania 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)
  • Oldenburg 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

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

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

Sail training ships

Floating anti-aircraft batteries

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

Weather ships

Hospital ships

Patrol boats
Main article: Vorpostenboot

Icebreakers

Captured foreign warships

A significant number of foreign warships were captured and recommissioned into the Kriegsmarine. Some were never completed.

  • Clemenceau, captured 1940, launched 1943 (never 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)
  • O 8, captured in 1940, taken into service as UD-1
  • 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), & HNoMS Balder (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) were captured while still under construction. Work was resumed to completed them, but halted following sabotage from the Dutch Resistance. Both ships were completed and commissioned into Dutch service in 1953.
  • KB Dalmacija was captured first by Italy, then by Germany following the Italian Armistice in 1943. She was sunk by British torpedo boats.
  • KB Dubrovnik was captured first by Italy, then by German following the Italian Armistice in 1943. She was scuttled in Genoa in 1945 following the Battle of the Ligurian Sea.
  • KB Beograd was captured first by Italy, then by German following the Italian Armistice in 1943. 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 boats was captured first by Italy, then by German following the Italian Armistice in 1943. 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

Torpedo boats

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
    • 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. "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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