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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/German cruiser Prinz Eugen
		Prinz Eugen was a Hipper class heavy cruiser: like her sister ships, Admiral Hipper and Blücher, she was built in the mid-1930s.
		Prinz Eugen was repaired at Gotenhafen (Gdynia) and continued her tasks of shelling Soviet land forces and evacuating German refugees.
		The Prinz Eugen carried the bell of the Austro-Hungarian dreadnought Tegetthoff.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Prinz_Eugen (821 words)

	USS IX 300 \ Prinz Eugen
		Den tunge krysseren Prinz Eugen ble sjøsatt i Kiel i 1938, og kom i tjeneste for det tyske Kriegsmarine på sommeren 1940.
		Thereafter Prinz Eugen is towed to Kwajalein Atoll.
		Prinz Eugen, often called the "lucky ship" was the only major german warship that survived the war and was sunk after atomic bomb test in the Kwajalein Atoll.
	www.skovheim.org /worldwide/pacific/peugen/peugen.htm (2526 words)

	German battleship Bismarck - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Other German capital ships that were to have participated in the sortie were unavailable because of mechanical problems and war damage, but the mission went ahead under the command of Admiral Günther Lütjens.
		The Germans had various objectives, they wished to compensate for their weak submarine presence in the Atlantic and divert British naval forces from the Mediterranean to reduce the risks of the planned invasion of Crete and to allow Rommel’s forces to cross to Libya.
		The German tankers Belchen, Egerland, Esso Hamburg, Friedrich Breme, Heide, Lohingen, Weisenburg, and Wollin.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/German_battleship_Bismarck (2125 words)

	German Prinz Eugen
		Prinz Eugen's bow lay 1194 yards from the explosion at a relative bearing of 343 degrees 40 seconds, and was substantially undamaged.
		Prinz Eugen was moored bow-on to the point of detonation, and transports Crittenden (APA-77) and Gilliam (APA-57), both also bows-on to the direction of the blast, lay in the direction between "ground zero" and the former German cruiser.
		Prinz Eugen's bow was located 1990 yds from the point of explosion, with the ship bearing 309 degrees 8 sec from the blast point.
	www.warship.org /no31990.htm (3100 words)

	1/700 German Heavy Cruiser Prinz Eugen
		In February of 1942, the Prinz Eugen, together with the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau left their docks at Brest for Norway on an unexpected dash through the British Channel, in broad daylight.
		After arriving safely in German waters, Prinz Eugen was active in the strategic withdrawal from the Russian front, firing thousands of shells at encroaching Russian forces when she provided support for evacuation ships carrying German troops and civilians.
		Prinz Eugen can be assembled as it appeared in two different operations: Operation Rheinubung, 1941 and Operation Cerberus, 1942.
	www.tamiya.com /english/products/31805prinz_eugen/prinz_eugen.htm (361 words)

	700Prinz Eugen
		In February of 1942, the Prinz Eugen, together with the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau left their docks at Brest for Norway on an unexpected dash through the British Channel, in broad daylight.
		After arriving safely in German waters, Prinz Eugen was active in the strategic withdrawal from the Russian front, firing thousands of shells at encroaching Russian forces when she provided support for evacuation ships carrying German troops and civilians.
		In Operation Cerberus, Prinz Eugen was equipped with 5 additional 20mm AA-gun quadruple turrets for the "Channel Dash." Every detail of the ship's form is accurately recreated down to the subtle line separating the left and right side of the ship's hull.
	www.modelshipbuilding.com /700prinz_eugen.htm (393 words)

	German cruiser Prinz Eugen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prinz Eugen was a Hipper class heavy cruiser: like her sister ships, Admiral Hipper and Blücher, she was built in the mid-1930s.
		Prinz Eugen was repaired at Gotenhafen (Gdynia) and continued her tasks of shelling Soviet land forces and evacuating German refugees.
		At the end of the war, she was one of only two operational German cruisers left (the other was Nürnberg), and was surrendered at Copenhagen on 7 May 1945.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/German_cruiser_Prinz_Eugen (724 words)

	Maureen Hessey
		The German Heavy Cruiser Prinz Eugen accompanied the Bismarck on the ill-fated Operation Rhine in May 1941.
		The cruiser was dispatched after the battle with the Hood and Prince of Wales and was not at hand to suffer the same fate as the Bismarck.
		After the end of WWII, the Prinz Eugen was allocated to the U.S. Navy and was classified IX-300.
	hessey.org /hessey/maureen.html (192 words)

	German battleship Bismarck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		On 24 May 1941, accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, she was engaged in battle by the British battlecruiser HMS Hood and the newly commissioned battleship HMS Prince of Wales, which was still being worked up.
		The British heavy cruisers HMS Suffolk, HMS Norfolk, HMS Dorsetshire, and HMS London.
		The British light cruisers HMS Kenya, HMS Galatea, HMS Aurora, HMS Neptune, HMS Hermione, HMS Edinburgh, HMS Manchester, HMS Arethusa, HMS Birmingham, and HMS Sheffield.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/g/ge/german_battleship_bismarck.html (791 words)

	KBismarck.com - Prinz Eugen
		The Prinz Eugen anchored in the Baltic in the spring of 1941.
		Prinz Eugen is located 1,194 yards from the point of explosion and survives the test undamaged.
		Prinz Eugen is located 1,990 yards from the explosion, and again survives the test with no appreciable damage.
	www.kbismarck.com /peugen.html (1354 words)

	Bismarck’s Atlantic Sortie May 20-27, 1941 - World War II Multimedia Database
		HMS Norfolk, and her sister cruiser HMS Suffolk, were assigned to patrol the Denmark Straits between Greenland and Iceland.
		To allow the Prinz Eugen to escape, Bismarck turned briefly on her pursuers and the heavy cruiser sailed away.
		Also the Germans claimed vengeance was the actual reason the rescue efforts stopped, as punishment for the death of almost the entire crew of the Hood.
	www.worldwar2database.com /html/bismarck.htm (1323 words)

	Air Force Times - News - This Week's Air Force Times.
		The 697-foot Eugen sortied with the battleship Bismarck in May 1941 and participated in the sinking of the British flagship, the battle cruiser Hood.
		The Eugen was later towed to Kwajalein lagoon, where it capsized and sank in 60 feet to 110 feet of water.
		But the Eugen is one of the few that rests in very shallow water, with a portion (the stern/screws) actually above the surface.
	www.airforcetimes.com /story.php?f=1-AIRPAPER-341381.php (271 words)

	Prinz Eugen
		On the 21st December due to damage she started to list, unable to correct the situation the Prinz Eugen was towed to Enunuj reef where she capsized and sank at position 167 Degrees 41 East and 8 degrees 44 south where she remains to this day.
		Prinz Eugen in company with destroyers and torpedo boats shelling Russian shore positions in Western Samland with her 8-inch guns.
		The German Heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen is depicted in a quiet moment at Gotenhaven in April 1941 whilst engaged in exercises with her consort, the mighty Bismarck that would eventually lead to Operation Rheinubung,.
	www.naval-art.com /prinz_eugen.htm (721 words)

	The Prinz Eugen
		It serves as an ironic oxymoron in that German naval activity never ventured this far in the war, yet scores of her allies also lie within a few miles of her.
		Prinz Eugen was launched in 1938 and served both as a symbol of defiance and national pride.
		Indeed, Prinz Eugen was part of a series of bold efforts the Kregsmarine undertook to match German naval strength with that of the Royal Navy.
	www.northernatlanticdive.com /prinz_eugen.htm (1091 words)

	Prinz Eugen, heavy cruiser, 'the lucky ship' ...
		Eugen, the owner of this web site was born in March 1939 and about the time the Prinz Eugen was launched, his mother-to-be had been given the glorious news that she was expecting.
		Prinz Eugen scores the first hit on the Hood which later explodes in the battle.
		During the ensuing battle, the lighter armour of the battle cruiser Hood proved to be its downfall.
	members.pcug.org.au /~eugen/prinz1.htm (1143 words)

	PRINZ EUGEN index page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Prinz Eugen was launched in 1938 as part of an ambitious peacetime building program intended to bring the Kriegsmarine to equal terms with the Royal Navy.
		Prinz Eugen's finest hour came when her shells held back advancing Red Armies, allowing a mass German exodus from the Baltic.
		She never sunk a single enemy vessel, but her crew fondly remember her as "the lucky ship." Although heavily damaged on several occasions, Prinz Eugen was the only heavy surface unit of the Kriegsmarine to survive WW2 intact.
	www.prinzeugen.com /PGIND.htm (269 words)

	1942
		German U-boats, with their deck guns, bombard oil storage facilities and refineries on the Dutch islands of Aruba and Curacao in the southern Caribbean.
		The Luftwaffe sinks the cruiser Trinidad on Arctic convoy route.
		The Italian cruiser Trento is sunk by British naval aircraft.
	www.wargamer.com /ww2timeline/1942seawar.asp (781 words)

	German cruiser Admiral Hipper at AllExperts
		The German cruiser Admiral Hipper was the lead ship of the Admiral Hipper class heavy cruisers which served with the Kriegsmarine of Germany during World War II.
		Although one of the escorting British cruisers, HMS Berwick, was heavily damaged, the impact on the convoy was limited to damage to two merchantman.
		Despite its strength, the German attack was repelled (Battle of the Barents Sea) and Admiral Hipper was damaged.
	en.allexperts.com /e/g/ge/german_cruiser_admiral_hipper.htm (707 words)

	Battle of the Denmark Strait, 24 May 1941
		In the early morning hours of 24 May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck and cruiser Prinz Eugen steamed southwesterly through the Denmark Strait, shadowed by the British heavy cruisers Suffolk and Norfolk.
		German battleship Bismarck firing on HMS Prince of Wales, as seen from the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, which is steaming ahead of Bismarck.
		German battleship Bismarck engaging HMS Hood and HMS Prince of Wales.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/events/wwii-atl/batlt-41/bismk-c.htm (992 words)

	World War II Plus 55 - February 22 - 28, 1942
		Eugen survives these various battles and embarrassments to be surrendered intact to the Royal Navy in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1945.
		With a mixed German-American crew, Eugen sails to the United States, where some of her guns and equipment are removed for examination.
		Eugen then sails to Bikini Atoll, where the empty ship is expended in the atomic bomb tests.
	www.usswashington.com /dl22fe42.htm (1743 words)

	ModelWarships reveiw
		The German Heavy Cruiser Prinz Eugen was a member of the Hipper Class Heavy Cruiser.
		The Prinz Eugen is best known for having accompanied the Bismarck on her last voyage.
		The Prinz Eugen separated from the Bismarck as planned and later returned to Brest in occupied France.
	www.modelwarships.com /reviews/ships/dkm/prinz-eugen/700-samec/pe-samec.html (470 words)

	Classic Warships Volume 21 KM Prinz Eugen
		Prinz Eugen was most famous for sailing with the ill-fated Battleship Bismark in 1941 and surviving that sortie.
		Prinz Eugen was torpedoed, bombed, and damaged many times during her career but somehow managed to become one of the few ships of the German Kriegsmarine to survive WWII.
		This book on the Prinz Eugen follows the ship through her career from launching to her fate at Bikini Atoll.
	www.steelnavy.com /cw_KM_Prinz_Eugen.htm (456 words)

	1200 scale Naval game
		The German plan was audacious, with three separate forces, all converging to trap the British.
		All the British shells are now falling around the Graf Spee and Prinz Eugen as 2 new German heavy units are now seen on the northern edge of the battle area.
		The German players jointly protested at Nuremburg, after the war, that the point values for this game were rigged, the set-up was stacked against them, and Hitler was an Idiot.
	www.angelfire.com /games3/jacksongamer/Sea2.htm (757 words)

	ship review
		The cruiser was dispatched after the battle with the Hood and Prince of Wales and was not at hand to suffer the same fate as the Bismarck.
		After the end of WWII, the Prinz Eugen was allocated to the U.S. Navy and was classified IX-300.
		The kit also provides instructions and parts to build the cruiser as she appeared with the Bismarck or during the Channel Dash-- Operation Cerberus in February 1942 with a different camo scheme.
	www.modelwarships.com /reviews/ships/dkm/prinz-eugen/700-tamiya/eugen-pre.htm (503 words)

	Mysterious Photo Quiz
		Prinz Eugen belonged to Admiral Hipper Class heavy cruisers of the Kriegsmarine, which were a result of the Washington Treaty.
		Their displacement was not to exceed 10.000 tons (in fact over 18.000 t full load) and their main artillery was limited to 8" (203 mm) guns.
		Prinz Eugen, often called the "lucky ship" was the only major German warship that survived the war.
	www.warship.get.net.pl /_Mystery/_Mystery006.html (267 words)

	World War II Plus 55 - 17-23 May 42
		The Germans have a 4.4:1 edge in tanks, 1.7:1 edge in artillery, and 1.3:1 edge in infantry on the battlefield.
		With the Germans cutting off the Soviet Barvenkovo offensive from their rear, the Soviets cancel their offensive, do a fast U-turn, and try to fight their way out of the pocket and back to safety.
		As no German fleet movements are reported, the battleships and carriers escort the convoy to a point near the "east coast of Iceland northabout," then peel off to conduct simulated torpedo attacks with Navy PBY Catalina flying boats and Army P-40 fighters.
	www.usswashington.com /dl17ma42.htm (2296 words)

	Army Times - Lt. helped sink Bismarck before U.S. entered WWII
		The German warship sunk the battle cruiser Hood, the pride of the British Navy, on May 24.
		They were flying at an altitude of about 500 feet when Smith looked down through the fog and saw the German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen.
		Since the U.S. was officially neutral, it was a risky decision to recognize Smith for his participation in a combat operation.
	www.armytimes.com /story.php?f=1-292308-1673961.php (590 words)

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