Category: ww2 Kriegsmarine
German WW2 Torpedo Boats
Kriegsmarine Torpedoboote Germany (1924-45) – 36 (90 planned)+ 49 TB Ausland (TA), total 84 Why German Torpedo Boats in WW2…
Dornier Leichte Schnellboote (1942)
Leichte Schnellboote Germany (1942-45) – About 27 LS boats 1936-1945 Genesis of the “light fast (T)boats” The German Leichte Schnellboote…
Type XIV “Milchkühe” U-Boats (1941)
Type XIV “Milchkühe” U-Boats, Hitler’s Milk Cows Germany (1941-42): 10 U-boats Maintaining Wolf Packs at sea One aspect of the…
Type XXI U-Boats (1944)
Nazi Germany, 1,170 planned, 118 completed (1944) The Elektroboot saga: Too late to win The Type XXI were large scale…
Deutschland class Cruisers (1931)
Germany (1931) – KMS Deutschland, Admiral Graf Spee, Admiral Scheer The “pocket battleships” of the Reichsmarine These ships were mostly…
S-Bootes (E-Boats)
Schnellbootes Germany (1934-45) Schnellboote – 9 classes*, circa 300 total +280 ordered The perile of S-Bootes: Called S-Boote (short for…
Bismarck class Battleships (1940)
Fast Battleships 1939-1945 Germany (1940) KMS Bismarck, Tirpitz Introduction: The most formidable battleship in the world, 1941. The Bismarck is…
Scharnhorst class battleships (1936)
Germany (1936) Battleships: Scharnhorst, Gneisenau The Kriegsmarine “terrible twins”: The Scharnhost and Gneisenau were the first Kriegsmarine battleships, completed shortly…
Leipzig class cruisers (1929)
Germany (1928-35), Leipzig, Nürnberg The last light German cruisers: The Leipzig class represented the last two light cruisers of the…
Type IX U-Boats (1936)
Type IX U-Boats (1936) Germany (1936-45) 194 produced (290 ordered) Type IX, the long-range U-Boat: During world war two, two…
