1/1800 KM CA Prinz Eugen [1942]

KM CA Prinz Eugen [early 1942]

• improved upon the preceeding 2 Adm. Hipper class heavy cruisers, noteably the bow, armor layout amidships, aircraft handling facilities (and crane) and flatter forward superstructure face
• part of Operation Rheinübung (1941) with battleship Bismarck in breaking out to the Atlantic Ocean, w/c lead to HMS Hood's sinking
• in 1942 as part of Operation Cerberus with Scharnhorst and Gneisanau (+ escorts): the German fleet's (successful) attempt to return to Germany from occupied France (Brest), running past the British blockade in the English Channel
• 1943-1944 operated as artillery support vs Russia in the Baltics
• at Germany's surrender, Prinz Eugen was ceeded to the British, and then as war prize to the US. Assigned the hull number IX-300, the cruiser was used as a target ship for nuclear bomb tests

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admiral_Hipper-class_cruiser
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cruiser_Admiral_Hipper
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cruiser_Blücher
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cruiser_Prinz_Eugen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cruiser_Seydlitz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cruiser_Lützow_(1939)