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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.
Class | Displacement (standard) |
Main battery | Speed | Ship | Image | Commis- sioned |
Fate |
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Deutschland class | 15,000 tons | 4 × 11-in. | 18 kn | Hannover | Oct 1907 | Scrapped between 1944 and 1946 | |
19.1 kn | Schleswig-Holstein | Jul 1908 | Scuttled, Mar 1945 | ||||
18.5 kn | Schlesien | May 1908 | Mined off Swinemünde in May 1945 |
Class | Displacement (standard) |
Main battery | Speed | Ship | Image | Commis- sioned |
War loss |
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Bismarck class | Bismarck: 41,700 tons Tirpitz: 42,900 tons |
8 × 15-in. | 30 kn | Bismarck | Aug 1940 | Scuttled following incapacitating battle damage, May 1941 | |
Tirpitz | Feb 1941 | Sunk by air attack, Nov 1944 | |||||
Scharnhorst class | 32,100 tons | 9 × 11-in. | 31 kn | Scharnhorst | Jan 1939 | Sunk by gunfire, Dec 1943 | |
Gneisenau | May 1938 | Sunk as a blockship, Mar 1945 |
Class | Displacement (standard) |
Main battery | Speed | Ship | Image | Commis- sioned |
War loss | Postwar |
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Deutschland class | 14,290 tons | 6 × 11-in. | 28 kn | Deutschland; renamed Lützow Jan 1940 |
Apr 1933 | Air attack Baltic Sea, Apr 1945 |
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Admiral Scheer | Nov 1934 | Air attack Kiel, Apr 1945 |
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Admiral Graf Spee | Jan 1936 | Scuttled Montevideo, Dec 1939 |
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Admiral Hipper class | 18,200 tons | 8 × 8-in. | 32 kn | Admiral Hipper | Apr 1939 | Scuttled Kiel, May 1945 |
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Blücher | Sep 1939 | Sunk Drøbak Sound, Apr 1940 |
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Prinz Eugen | Aug 1940 | Prize of US |
Class | Displacement (standard) |
Main battery | Speed | Ship | Image | Commis- sioned |
War loss | Postwar |
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Emden | 6,990 tons | 8 × 5.9-in. | 29.5 kn | Emden | Oct 1925 | Scuttled Heikendorf, May 1945 |
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Königsberg class | 7,700 tons | 9 × 5.9-in. | 32 kn | Königsberg | Apr 1929 | Air attack Bergen, Apr 1940 |
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Karlsruhe | Nov 1929 | Scuttled off Kristiansand, Apr 1940 |
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Köln | Jan 1930 | Air attack Wilhelmshaven, Mar 1945 |
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Leipzig class | 8,900 tons** | 9 × 5.9-in. | 32 kn | Leipzig | Oct 1931 | Scuttled, Jun 1946 | ||
Nürnberg | Nov 1935 | Prize of USSR |
Class | Displace- ment |
Torpedo load |
Speed | Image | Ship | War loss | Postwar |
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Type 1934 destroyers |
3,155 tons | 8 × 21-in. | 36 kn | Z1 Leberecht Maass | Sunk, Feb 1940 | ||
Z2 Georg Thiele | Beached, Apr 1940 | ||||||
Z3 Max Schultz | Sunk w all hands, Feb 1940 | ||||||
Z4 Richard Beitzen | Scrapped, 1949 | ||||||
Type 1934A destroyers |
2,270 tons | 8 × 21-in. | 36 kn | Z5 Paul Jakobi | Scrapped, 1954 | ||
Z6 Theodor Riedel | Scrapped, 1958 | ||||||
Z7 Hermann Schoemann | Scuttled, May 1942 | ||||||
Z8 Bruno Heinemann | Mined, Jan 1942 | ||||||
Z9 Wolfgang Zenker | Scuttled, Apr 1940 | ||||||
Z10 Hans Lody | Scrapped, 1949 | ||||||
Z11 Bernd von Arnim | Scuttled, Apr 1940 | ||||||
Z12 Erich Giese | Sunk, Apr 1940 | ||||||
Z13 Erich Koellner | Scuttled, Apr 1940 | ||||||
Z14 Friedrich Ihn | Scrapped, 1952 | ||||||
Z15 Erich Steinbrinck | Scrapped, 1958 | ||||||
Z16 Friedrich Eckoldt | Sunk, Dec 1942 | ||||||
Type 1936 destroyers |
3,470 tons | 8 × 21-in. | 36 kn | Z17 Diether von Roeder | Scuttled, Apr 1940 | ||
Z18 Hans Lüdemann | Scuttled, Apr 1940 | ||||||
Z19 Hermann Künne | Scuttled, Apr 1940 | ||||||
Z20 Karl Galster | Scrapped, 1958 | ||||||
Z21 Wilhelm Heidkamp | Sunk, Apr 1940 | ||||||
Z22 Anton Schmitt | Sunk, Apr 1940 |
Class | Displace- ment |
Torpedo load |
Speed | Image | Ship | War loss | Postwar |
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Type 1936A (Narvik) destroyers |
2,657 tons | 8 × 21-in. | 36 kn | Z23 | Scuttled, Aug 1944 | ||
Z24 | Air attack, Aug 1944 | ||||||
Z25 | Prize of France | ||||||
Z26 | Sunk, Mar 1942 | ||||||
Z27 | Sunk, Dec 1943 | ||||||
Z28 | Air attack, Mar 1945 | ||||||
Z29 | Scuttled, 1946 | ||||||
Z30 | Scrapped, 1948 | ||||||
Type 1936A (Mob) | 2,657 tons | 8 × 21-in. | 36 kn | Z31 | Prize of France | ||
Z32 | Grounded, Jun 1944 | ||||||
Z33 | Prize of USSR | ||||||
Z34 | Scuttled, 1946 | ||||||
Z37 | Scuttled, Aug 1944 | ||||||
Z38 | Prize of UK | ||||||
Z39 | Prize of US | ||||||
Type 1936B destroyer | 3,542 tons | 8 × 21-in. | 36 kn | No image available | Z35 | Mined, Dec 1944 | |
Z36 | Mined, Dec 1944 | ||||||
Z43 | Scuttled, May 1945 | ||||||
Z45 | Scrapped, 1946 | ||||||
Type 1936C destroyer | 3,625 tons | 8 × 21-in. | 37.5 kn | No image available | Z46 | Blown up, 1945 | |
Z47 | Blown up, 1945 |
Many vessels were requisitioned for use as vorpostenboote during the war.
A significant number of foreign warships were captured and recommissioned into the Kriegsmarine.
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.