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  Admiral Hipper Operational History
Along with BCs Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and the destroyers Karl Galster, Hans Lody, Erich Steinbrinck and Hermann Schoemann, Admiral Hipper raids the area of Hastad, Norway and sink the troop transport Orama, the tanker Oil Pioneer and the submarine hunter Juniper.
Admiral Hipper and BC Gneisenau start an operation against the British northern Patrol, but the operation is canceled after Gneisenau is hit by an torpedo the next day.
Admiral Hipper, Admiral Scheer, the CL Köln and several destroyers relocate to the Altafjord.
www.german-navy.de /kriegsmarine/ships/heavycruiser/admiralhipper/operations.html   (547 words)

  
 ADMIRAL HIPPER | Schwerer Kreuzer | Kriegsmarine
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Die Admiral Hipper war der erste Schwere Kreuzer der neuen Kriegsmarine und wurde noch, wie die übrigen schweren Kreuzer auch, unter der Beschränkung des Washingtoner Flottenabkommens gebaut.
Die zu der Zeit in Gotenhafen liegende Hipper musste wegen dem Vordringen der Russen nach Kiel verlegt werden.
www.schlachtschiff.com /kriegsmarine/kreuzer_admiral_hipper   (124 words)

  
 Admiral Hipper & Blücher & Prinz Eugen - How you can help
Admiral Hipper and Blücher and Prinz Eugen - How you can help
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www.admiral-hipper-class.dk /how_you_can_help/how_you_can_help.html   (128 words)

  
  KMS Admiral Hipper naval art prints by Ivan Berryman
The attack on the Admiral Hipper by HMS Glowworm by Ivan Berryman.
KMS Admiral Hippers first and uneventful operation (Nordmark) was to hunt down allied merchantmen off Scandinavia, along with the battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in late February 1940.
Admiral Hipper spent the next months at Kiel under refit, which included the conversion of water tanks into fuel tanks to improve her range.
www.ivanberryman.co.uk /kms_admiral_hipper.htm   (1246 words)

  
  Schwere Kreuzer Admiral Hipper
Hipper next encounters the MMS Bramble and fatally damages her with her third salvo from 5,500 meters.
Hipper turns away in consideration of her orders to avoid action with enemy forces nearly equal to her in strength and because of the damage sustained.
Hipper is seriously damaged, suffering more flooding and a series of engine failures before she manages to limp back to Kaafjord at 0542 on 1 Jan 43.
www.feldgrau.com /ahipper.html   (1857 words)

  
 Sheer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Admiral von Sheer commanded the German fleet at the Battle of Jutland where he was defeated and the German fleet was only saved from total destruction by the actions of Admiral von Hipper commanding the battlecruiser squadron.
Admiral von Sheer was very upset by the mutinous incidents and by the defeat of Germany in 1918, so he then retired from the navy.
Admiral von Sheer died in 1928 and is buried in Weimar, Germany.
www.angelfire.com /wizard/rn1900/sheer.htm   (170 words)

  
 Admiral Graf Spee - Gallery - Montevideo, Uruguay
Admiral Graf Spee anchored in the harbour of Montevideo.
Damage to the hull was caused by a penetration of a 152 mm shell.
Admiral Graf Spee leaves the harbour in Montevideo on her last short voyage, 17.
www.deutschland-class.dk /admiral_graf_spee/gallery/gallgrafspeemontevideo.html   (317 words)

  
  Battle of Dogger Bank
At 4.45 pm (GMT) on the 23 January 1915 Rear-Admiral Hipper sailed from the Jade with the 1st and 2nd Scouting Groups of three battlecruisers, the large armoured cruiser Blücher and four light cruisers to scout the Dogger Bank region of the North Sea and attack any British light forces in the region.
Hipper turned his heavy units towards the firing thinking that there were only light enemy units in the area.
Hipper at first thought they British ships were battleships, which he could easily outrun, but by the time he realised that they were battlecruisers the range had already dropped to 25,000 yards.
www.worldwar1.co.uk /dogger-bank.html   (957 words)

  
  German cruiser Admiral Hipper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Admiral Hipper was the first ship of her class, the others being Blücher and Prinz Eugen.
Admiral Hipper sailed on her second Atlantic cruise on 1 February 1941.
Admiral Hipper was scuttled in dock at Kiel Deutsche Werke yards on 2 May 1945.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/German_cruiser_Admiral_Hipper   (639 words)

  
 Franz von Hipper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born in Weilheim in Bavaria, Franz Hipper joined the German Imperial Navy in 1881 as an 18-year-old cadet, serving on the frigates SMS Niobe and SMS Leipzig.
Indeed, of the four main admirals involved on both sides at Jutland (Jellicoe, Beatty, Scheer, and Hipper), he was the only one considered to have performed flawlessly.
In August 1918 Hipper was promoted to Admiral and succeeded Admiral Reinhard Scheer as commander-in-chief of the High Seas Fleet.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Franz_von_Hipper   (322 words)

  
 First World War.com - Who's Who - Franz von Hipper
Admiral Franz von Hipper (1863-1932) gained dubious fame in Britain as the 'baby killer' of the German navy, a reputation deriving from his bold raids upon the British coast, notably at Scarborough, during the opening months of the war.
With war declared Hipper often lurked in the dangerous North Sea with his Battlecruiser Squadron, and met with success during raids in the early stages of the war.
Having decided to try and repeat his earlier success at Scarborough, Hipper was in the process of sailing to Britain in January 1915 when, following the interception of radio traffic, the British, led by Admiral Beatty, intercepted him at the Battle of Dogger Bank.
www.firstworldwar.com /bio/hipper.htm   (231 words)

  
 battles
Admiral Beatty with his battle cruisers tried to intercept the enemy as they scuttled homewards, but the prevailing bad weather favoured the Germans, who, as one British naval officer wrote, 'came out of one rainstorm and disappeared into another'.
Admiral Beatty, who, like Nelson before him, was made a Flag Officer at the age of 39, raced after the Germans and opened fire as soon as the enemy battle cruisers came within range.
The German Admiral Hipper, who was to show his battle cruisers as bait to the British Grand Fleet, was steaming northwards for this purpose, with the German High Seas Fleet 40 miles astern.
www.ajbrown.eu.com /wsprince/battles.htm   (1647 words)

  
 All Wood Wings: Admiral Hipper Class Heavy Cruisers - quality ship models crafted from wood
The Admiral Hipper Class disadvantages could partly be traced to the Kriegsmarine's lack of experience after World War I, and partly to the designers' intentions of constructing the class so that it resembled the Bismarck Class battleships.
In the Norwegian campaign Admiral Hipper was rammed and damaged by the destroyer HMS Glowworm, which emerged from a smoke screen at close range but was ultimately sunk by Admiral Hipper.
Admiral Hipper subsequently served as a training ship in the Baltic Sea where she helped protect and evacuate the retreating German troops and refugees holed up in East Prussia in what became the largest maritime evacuation in history.
www.allwoodwings.com /Ships/Military/Battleships/German-AdmiralHipperClass.htm   (317 words)

  
 Admiral Scheer: Jervis Bay - Ross Memorial Park: Heritage Resources Saint John   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Admiral Scheer continued on her own and managed to capture another ship - this time the Norwegian tanker Sandefjord, which was taken to France by a prize crew.
That is how I got my first post-war glimpse of the "Admiral Hipper", still upright in dry-dock at the Deutsche Werke shipyards, and the "Admiral Scheer", lying on her side, about two hundred meters to the north, her bottom facing west.
By that time the Hipper had been refloated and beached a stone's throw from our north terrace; the Emden was lying about 500 m astern (to the east) amongst a jumble of torpedo boats, mine sweepers, and landing craft.
www.saintjohn.nbcc.nb.ca /~Heritage/JervisBay/AdmiralScheer.htm   (996 words)

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