List of Kriegsmarine ships

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.

Capital ships

Pre-dreadnought battleships

Modern battleships

Cruisers

Heavy cruisers

Light cruisers

Destroyers and torpedo boats

Named destroyers

Numbered destroyers

Torpedo boats

* ''Torpedoboot'' 1923 ("''Raubvogel''") (900 tons, 3 × 105 mm guns)
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* ''Torpedoboot'' 1924 ("''Raubtier''") (950 tons, 3 × 105 mm guns)
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* ''Torpedoboot'' 1935 (1,090 tons, 1 × 105 mm gun)
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* ''Torpedoboot'' 1937 (1,150 tons, 1 × 105 mm gun)
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* ''Flottentorpedoboot'' 1939 (Elbing) (1,750 tons, 4 × 105 mm guns)
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Auxiliary cruisers

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Mine warfare craft

Minelayers

* 1935 (5,500 tons, 3 × 150mm guns, 460 mines)
* 1936 (3,900 tons, 3 × 105mm guns, 250 mines)
* 1941 (2,000 tons, 2 × 88mm guns, 200 mines)
* 1934 (1,800 tons, 2 × 105mm guns, 260 mines)
* 1939 (2,431 tons, 2 × 88mm guns, 360 mines)
* 1942 (3,152 tons, 4 x 20mm guns, 80 mines)
* 1924 (1,800 tons, 2 × 88mm guns, 120 mines)
* 1940 (3 × 10.5 cm guns, 2 × 3.7 cm anti-aircraft guns, 10 × 2 cm anti-aircraft guns, 4 × 46 cm torpedo tubes, 280 mines)
* 1934 (1,200 tons, 2 × 88mm guns, 145 mines)
* 1939 (370 tons, 2 × 88mm guns, 100 mines)
* 1939 (370 tons, 2 × 88mm guns, 100 mines)
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''Sperrbrecher''

* ''Sperrbrecher'' 1 – ''Sperrbrecher'' 100 (5,000 tons, 2 × 88mm guns)

Minesweeper

* M1935 class (875 tons, 2 × 105mm guns)
** ''M1'' – ''M69''
* M1940 class (775 tons, 1 × 105mm gun)
** ''M70'' – ''M196''
* M1943 class (825 tons, 2 × 105mm guns)
** ''M197'' – ''M214''

R Boats

* ''R1'' class 1929 (60 tons, 1 × 37mm gun, 6 mines)
** ''R1'' – ''R16''
* ''R17'' class 1934 (115 tons, 1 × 37mm gun, 12 mines)
** ''R17'' – ''R24''
* ''R25'' class 1938 (110 tons, 1 × 37mm gun, 12 mines)
** ''R25'' – ''R40''
* ''R41'' class 1939 (125 tons, 1 × 37mm gun, 12 mines)
** ''R41'' – ''R129''
* ''R130'' class 1940 (150 tons, 1 × 37mm gun, 12 mines)
** ''R130'' – ''R150''
* ''R151'' class 1940 (125 tons, 1 × 37mm gun, 12 mines)
** ''R151'' – ''R217''
* ''R218'' class 1942 (140 tons, 1 × 37mm gun, 16 mines)
** ''R218'' – ''R300''
* ''R301'' class 1942 (160 tons, 1 × 88mm gun, 16 mines, 2 torpedo tubes)
** ''R301'' – ''R312''

Mine hunters

* ''KM1'' – ''KM36''

Small craft

S-boats

* ''S1'' class (50 tons, 1 × 20mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
** ''S1'' – ''S25''
* ''S26'' class (75 tons, 1 × 20mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
** ''S26'' – ''S29''
* ''S30'' class (80 tons, 1 × 20mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
** ''S30'' – ''S37''
* ''S38'' class (80 tons, 1 × 20mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
** ''S38'' – ''S60''
* ''S38b'' class (90 tons, 2 × 20mm guns, 2 torpedo tubes)
** ''S61'' – ''S99''
* ''S100'' class (100 tons, 1 × 37mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
** ''S100'' – ''S150''
* ''S151'' class (100 tons, 1 × 37mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
** ''S151'' – ''S205''

U-boats

Training submarines

* Type I
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Coastal submarines

* Type IIA
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* Type IIB
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* Type IIC
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* Type IID
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* Type XVIIB
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Ocean-going submarines

* Type VIIA
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* Type IXA
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* Type IXB
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* Type IXC
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* Type IXD
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Minelaying submarines

* Type VIID
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* Type XB
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Supply submarines

* Type VIIF
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* Type IXD /42
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* Type XB
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* Type XIV
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Electric boats

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* Type XXIII
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Midget submarines

* '' Seehund'' (17 tons, 2 × torpedoes)
** 138 commissioned
* ''Hecht'' (Training)
** 53 commissioned
* ''Biber'' (6.5 tons, 2 × torpedoes)
** 324 commissioned
* '' Molch'' (11 tons, 2 × torpedoes)
** 393 commissioned
* '' Delphin'' (Prototype)
** 3 commissioned
* '' Seeteufel'' (Prototype)
** 1 commissioned
* '' Schwertwal'' (Prototype)
** 1 commissioned

Human torpedoes

* ''Neger'' (1 × torpedo)
** 200 commissioned
* ''Marder'' (3 tons, 1 × torpedo)
** 500 commissioned
* ''Hai'' (Prototype)
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Auxiliary ships

Troop ships

* , 1927
* , 1923
* , 1940
* , 1923
* , 1937
* , 1926
* , 1936
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Artillery training ships

* 1933 (1,800 tons, 4 × 127mm guns)
* 1934 (3,000 tons, 8 × 105mm guns, 480 mines)

Torpedo training ships

* , 1942

Radio-controlled targets

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Sail training ships

* ''Niobe'', 1913
* ''Gorch Fock'', 1933 (Russian training ship ''Tovarishch'')
* ''Horst Wessel'', 1936 (US Coast Guard Ship ''Eagle'')
* ''Albert Leo Schlageter'', 1937 (Portuguese training ship ''Sagres'')

Floating anti-aircraft batteries

* ( light cruiser)
* (''Gazelle'' class light cruiser)
* (ex-Dutch coastal defense ship)
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Escort

* (700 tons, 2 × 105mm guns)
** ''F 1'' – ''F 10''
* (925 tons, 1 × 105mm gun)
** ''PA 1'' – ''PA 4''

Gunboats

* ''LS1'' – ''LS12''
* The Following Gunboats were generally armed with one 5.9 inch, two 37mm (1×2) and six 20mm (6×1) guns.
** August 400 tons Launched 1936
** Berkelstrom
** Cascade 338 tons Launched 1937
** Globe 314 tons Launched 1937
** Hast I
** Helene 400 tons Launched 1937
** Joost
** Kemphaan 343 tons Launched 1936
** Nijnberg
** Oostzee 336 tons Launched 1936
** Ost 565 tons Launched 1939
** Paraat
** Polaris 322 tons Launched 1936
** Robert Muller 399 tons Launched 1936
** Soemba
** Trompenberg
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** West Vlaanderen 346 tons Launched 1927

Blockade runners/Auxiliary minelayers

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Weather ships

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Fleet Tenders

* ''Saar''
* ''Hela''
* '' Tsingtau''
* ''Adolf Lüderitz''
* '' Carl Peters''
* '' Otto Wünsche''
* ''Waldemar Kophamel''
* '' Wilhelm Bauer''

Patrol boats

Many vessels were requisitioned for use as ''vorpostenboote'' during the war.

Icebreakers

* ''Castor''
* ''Eisbär''
* '' Eisvogel''
* '' Pollux''

Captured foreign warships

A significant number of foreign warships were captured and recommissioned into the ''Kriegsmarine''.
* , French battleship captured in 1940 while still under construction, but never completed. With Brest, France shipyard and drydock flooded and always under Allied bombers, it could never be completed.
* ''Faà di Bruno'', laid down 1915, captured 1943, commissioned as monitor Biber, surrendered in 1945 and broken up.
* , laid down 1938, captured 1941 (never completed)
* HNLMS ''O 8'', captured in 1940, taken into service as ''UD-1'' used as training ship to train crews for the German U-boats. Decommissioned in 1943.
* , captured 1940, taken into service as ''UB''
* The Danish training ship/coastal defense ship was refloated after an attempted destruction of the ship via running aground during Battle of Isefjord, disarmed and used as a training ship renamed ''Nordland'' by the Kriegsmarine. Scuttled a second time 3 May 1945, scrapped 1952.
* Four Norwegian s, , , , & were captured in 1940. All four ships saw service in the Kriegsmarine.
* Four French s, ''Arquebuse'', ''Hallebarde'', ''Sabre'', & ''Poignard'' were captured in 1940 following the Fall of France. All except ''Poignard'' were completed and entered service as "Patrol vessels" PA 1 to PA 4 (the latter saw no service).
* HNLMS ''Gerard Callenburgh'' was scuttled to prevent her capture in 1940, but was nevertheless raised and commissioned into the Kriegsmarine as ''ZH1'' in 1942.
* RHS '' Vasilefs Georgios'' was scuttled to prevent her captured in 1941, but was raised and commissioned into the Kriegsmarine as ''Hermes'' in 1942.
* French Destroyer ''L'Opiniâtre'' was captured while still under construction. Germany intended to completed her, but construction was halted in 1943 and broken up for scrap that year.
* and light cruisers were captured in 1940 while still under construction. Renamed as ''KH1'' and ''KH2'' ("KH" means "Kreuzer Holland"), modified to fit an Atlantic Bow and redesigned for new German armament. Work was resume to be completed, but with very slow progress due to sabotage from the Dutch Resistance. ''KH1'' was launched in 1944 to be use as blockship. Both ships were completed with a modernized post WW II design and commissioned into Dutch service in 1953.
* KB ''Dalmacija'' was a WW1 Imperial Germany light cruiser (SMS Niobe), sold to Yugoslavia in 1925 (KB Dalmacija), captured by Italy in 1941 (RN Cattaro), then by Germany following the Italian Armistice in 1943 and renamed Niobe. She was sunk by British torpedo boats.
* KB ''Dubrovnik'' was captured first by Italy in 1941 (RN Premuda), then by German following the Italian Armistice in 1943 (TA 32). She was scuttled in Genoa in 1945 following the Battle of the Ligurian Sea.
* KB ''Beograd'' was captured first by Italy in 1941 (RN Sebenico), then by German following the Italian Armistice in 1943 (TA 43). She was sunk in Trieste, though sources vary of how so.
* KB '' T3'' was captured first by Italy, then by German following the Italian Armistice in 1943. She was sunk by Allied aircraft in February 1945.
* Four Yugoslav Orjen-class torpedo boat (KB Velebit, KB Dinara, KB Triglav and KB Rudnik) were captured first by Italy in 1941 (MS 42, MS 43, MS 44 and MS 46), then by German following the Italian Armistice in 1943 (S 601, S 602, S 603 and S 604). All four were scuttled in 1944.
* KB was captured in 1941 and used as a troop transport until her sinking in 1944.
* Yugoslav minelayer ''D2'' was captured first by Italy, then by German following the Italian Armistice in 1943. She was sunk in 1944.

Unfinished ships

Aircraft carriers

* ''Graf Zeppelin'' class
** , Laid down 1936, commissioned 1938 (85% complete at start of war, never completed)*
** ''Flugzeugträger'' B, Laid Down 1938, never launched, broken up 1940*Breyer, Stephen, "German Aircraft Carriers", Schiffer Publishing Co, Atglen, PA

Heavy cruisers

* , (uncompleted, intended for conversion into light aircraft carrier, but never completed)
* , (sold uncompleted to Soviet Union in 1940)

Destroyers

* ''Zerstörer'' 1936C
* ''Zerstörer'' 1938A/Ac
* ''Zerstörer ''1938B
* ''Zerstörer'' 1942: Z51 launched 1944, but bombed and never completed
* ''Zerstörer'' 1944
* ''Zerstörer'' 1945
* ''Spähkreuzer''

Torpedo boats

* ''Flottentorpedoboot'' 1940 (Never completed)
* ''Flottentorpedoboot'' 1941 (Never completed)
* ''Flottentorpedoboot'' 1944 (Never completed)

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.

See also

List of ships of the Second World War

References

* ''Janes Fighting Ships of World War Two''. 1994 reprint of 1945/46 edition, Crescent Books, Random House, New York

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