In
Service: 25 April 1939 to 3 May1945
Ordered: 30 October 1934
Builder: Blohm
& Voss, Hamburg
Construction No: 501
Laid down: 6 July
1935
Launched: 6 February 1937
Commissioned: 29 April 1939
Type: Heavy cruiser
Class: Admiral Hipper
Displacement:
14,050 tons standard 18,200 tons full load
Length: 202.8 m
Beam:
21.3 m
Draft: 7.2 m
Propulsion: 3 × shafts Brown Boveri
geared turbines producing up to 133,631 shp
Propellers: Speed:
32.6 knots
Range: 6,800 nautical miles at 20 knots
Crew:
1,600 men and officers
Armament: 8 × 20.3 cm L/60 SK C/34
12 × 10.5 cm L/65 SK C/33
carried 4,800 rounds
12 × 3.7 cm
L/83 SK C/30
carried 4,000 rounds
14 × 2 cm MG L/65 C/30
carried
16,000 rounds
16 × 4 cm L/56 Flak 28 after 1945
carried 30,000 rounds
12 × 5.33 cm torpedoe tubes
96 × EMC mines
Armour Deck
20 to 50 mm, Belt 70 to 80 mm
Turrets 70 to 105 mm, Tower 50 to15 cm
Aircraft:
3 ×
Arado
Ar 196 seaplanes
Electronics: Operators: Kriegsmarine
Variants: Admiral Hipper Blücher
Prinz Eugen Seydlitz
Lützow Other: Heavy
cruisers Articles: The German cruiser Admiral Hipper was the principal ship of the Admiral
Hipper class heavy cruisers which served with the Kriegsmarine, the German Navy
in World War II.
The ship was called after Admiral Franz von Hipper, commander
of the German battlecruiser squadron throughout the Battle of Jutland in 1916
and subsequently commander in chief of the German High Seas Fleet. Admiral Hipper
was the foremost of five ships in her class. Two others, Blücher and Prinz
Eugen, were finished and enlisted with the Kriegsmarine in the Second World War;
a fourth, Lützow, was sold to the Soviet Union in 1939 before realisation;
and a fifth, Seydlitz, was to be converted into an aircraft carrier but was never
consummated.
29 April 1939 The heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper is commissioned.
8 April 1940 The heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper takes part in operation
Weser�bung (Invasion of Denmark and Norway) along with Hans Lüdemann and
Bernd von Arnim.
8
April 1940 The heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper sinks HMS Glowworm but takes
damage herself by collinding with her.
4 June 1940 The heavy
cruiser Admiral Hipper takes part in operation Juno (operation to disrupt Allied
supplies to Norway) along with battleships Gneisenau, Scharnhorst also the following
destroyers Hermann Schoemann, Karl Galster, Erich Steinbrinck, Hans Lody, three
ship were sunk by this group. Orama Troop Ship, Pioneer Oil tanker, HMS Juniper
Submarine hunter.
17 September 1940 Operation Seelöwe
(Planned invasion of the United Kingdom)
1 to 27 December 1940
The heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper takes part in operation Nordseetour it was her
first Atlantic mission one merchant freighter Jumna sunk.
1 to 2
February 1941 The heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper is escorted while leaving
Brest. By the torpedo boats Kondor and Seeadler and the destroyer Richard Beitzen.
11 Febuary 1941 The heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper attacks the unprotected
convoy SLS-64 sinking 7 of the 19 merchants and damaging several others.
13 to 14 February 1941 The heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper is escorted
while returning to Brest. By the torpedo boats Kondor and Seeadler and the destroyer
Richard Beitzen.
5 July 1942 The heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper
takes part in operation R�sselsprung along with Tirpitz, Admiral Scheer and nine
destroyers Hans Lody, Theodor Riedel, Friedrich Ihn, Karl Galster, Z24, Z27, Z28,
Z29, Z30 and two torpedo boats T7 and T15
10 September 1942
The heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper along with Nürnberg, Köln, and Admiral
Scheer, moves to the Alta Fjord to attack Convoy PQ-18.
31 December
1942 The battle of the Barents Sea ships that took part Admiral Hipper,
Lützow and the destroyers Theodor Riedel, Richard Beitzen, Friedrich Eckoldt,
Z24, Z30 and Z31 they come across convoy JW- 51B and opens fire on HMS Bramble
and HMS Achates sinking both, the cruisers HMS Sheffield and HMS Jamaica arrive
and Admiral Hipper retreats after taking several hits.
9 April 1945 The heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper is attacked while in
drydock by the RAF and badly damaged.
3 May 1945 The heavy
cruiser Admiral Hipper scuttled by explosive charges.
Hellmuth
Heye
Takes command on 29 April 1939
Ends command on 3 September 1940
Wilhelm
Meisel
Takes command on 3 September 1940
Ends command on 10 October
1942
Hans
Hartmann
Takes command on 10 October 1942
Ends command on 16 February
1943
Fritz
Krauss
Takes command on 16 February 1943
Ends command on 1 April 1943
Hans
Henigst
Takes command on 1 March 1944
Ends command on 3 May 1945
German
Warships, 1815-1945: Major Surface Vessels.
ISBN-10: 0851775330
German
Warships, 1815-1945: U-boats and Mine Warfare Vessels.
ISBN-10: 155750301X
German warships of the Second World War.
ISBN-10: 0668040378
For a complete list of
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