Kriegsmarine
Vessel Directory
Kriegsmarine
VESSEL DIRECTORY
Incomplete list and not catagorised sufficiently
SMS Franfurt (see 17/79)
SMS Magdeburg (see 17/79)
SMS Brummer (see 17/79)
BATTLESHIPS
BISMARCK CLASS
Bismarck, Tirpitz
SCHARNHORST CLASS
Scharnhorst, Gneisenau
HEAVY CRUISERS
DEUTSCHLAND-CLASS
Deutschland (Lützow), Admiral Scheer, Admiral Graf Spee - see 28/29
Bombing of the heavy cruiser during the Spanish Civil War
ADMIRAL HIPPER CLASS
Admiral Hipper, Blücher, Prinz Eugen
LIGHT CRUISERS
EMDEN CLASS
Emden
KÖNIGSBERG CLASS
Königsberg, Karlsruhe, Köln
LEIPZIG CLASS
Leipzig, Nürnberg
DESTROYERS
TYPE 1934 DESTROYERS
Z1 - Leberecht Maas, Z2 - Georg Thiele, Z3 - Max Schultz, Z4 - Richard Bietzen
TYPE 1934A DESTROYERS
Z5 - Z9 - Wolfgang Zenker - Z16
TYPE 1936 DESTROYERS
Z17 - Z20 - Karl Galster, Z22
TYPE 1936A DESTROYERS (Navik & Mob)
Z23 - Z34, Z37 - Z39
TYPE 1936B DESTROYERS
Z35 - 36, Z40 - 45
TYPE 1936C DESTROYERS
Z46 - Z50
The Type1936C class was intended to consist of five ships, Z46, Z47, Z48, Z49 and Z50. They were designed to be an improvement of Type 1936A and B destroyers. Only two of the five ships, Z46 and Z47, were ever laid down, and work was halted for a year between 1942 and 1943. Construction was constantly interrupted by numerous problems, predominantly due to air raids, material supply delays and a shortage of copper. The two ships that were laid down, Z46 and Z47, were blown up by Allied troops in 1945.
Source: Wikipedia 2026
TYPE 1937J DESTROYERS
The Type 1937J destroyer class was a design created by the Kriegsmarine in 1937. The destroyers were designed as ocean-going escort ships, which could attack and defend convoys in the Atlantic, while also being able to operate in tropical climates. The design was abandoned before any ships were ordered or laid down, largely because the range and speed requirements could not be achieved without reductions in armament, however it went on to influence later project studies: the Type 1938Ac, 1938Ad, and 1938B destroyers.
Source: Wikipedia 2026
TYPE 1945 DESTROYERS
The Type 1945 destroyers were a planned class of destroyers, for the Kriegsmarine, whose design was based upon that of the Type 1936D and E destroyers. Their plan involved a return to steam boilers, which had been replaced by diesel engines in all ships designs after the Type 1942 destroyers. No ships were ever built, as the end of the war was rapidly approaching.
Source: Wikipedia 2026
TORPEDO BOATS
TYPE 35
T1 T12
TYPE 37
TYPE 39
TYPE 40
TYPE 41
TYPE 44
- T18, T19 - T30
Iltis, Wolf, Jaguar, Tiger
Möwe, Falke, Kondor,
Seeadler
(also see 14.06.1937 SCW)
VORPOSTENBOOT
Patrol boats - coastal patrol, ship escort, and naval combat.
NAVAL ANTI-AIRCRAFT BATTERY
Floating anti-aircraft battery
Brummer
AUXILIARY SHIPS
Youth Hostel & Naval Accommodation
Edwin Wassner, Memel, Tanga, Mars, Isar, Lech, Weichsel, Donau, Mosel, Warnow
Hela, Nettelbeck, Fuchs, Pelikan, Drache, Brommy, Hecht, Jagd, Delphin, Acheron, Frauenlob, Gazelle, Störtebecker, Nautilus, Otto Braun, Raule
Strahl, Nordsee, Paul Beneke, Dahme, Nixe, MT 1 (Heppens), MT 2 (Mariensiel), C 21 - C 24, Orkan, Spree, Carl Zeiss, Taucher
T 107, T 108, T 123, T 196, Claus van Bevern, Eduard Jungmann (T 153), T 155, T 156, T 157, T 158
Patrol trawlers (Vorpostenboote) - Beowulf, Freyr, Frithjof, Heimdall, Sigfrid, Wotan, Hagen, Hildbrande, Hugin, Munin, Odin, Volker
Target service ships (Zielschiffe) - Hessen, Zähringen
MINESWEEPERS
M1 - M4, M6 - M36, Taku (M 146), M 72, M 75, M 84, M 98, M 102, M 104, M 110, M 111, M 117, M 117, M 122, M 126, M145, M157
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