List of Kriegsmarine ships

Contents 1 Major warships 1.1 Battleships 1.2 Pre-Dreadnoughts 1.3 Heavy cruisers 1.4 Light cruisers 2 Destroyers and torpedo boats 2.1 Destroyers 2.2 Torpedo boats 3 Auxiliary cruisers 4 Mine warfare craft 4.1 Minelayers 4.2 Sperrbrecher 4.3 Minesweeper 4.4 R Boats 4.5 Mine hunters 5 Small craft 5.1 E-boats 6 U-boats 6.1 Training submarines 6.2 Coastal submarines 6.3 Ocean-going submarines 6.4 Minelaying submarines 6.5 Supply submarines 6.6 Electric boats 6.7 Midget submarines 6.8 Human torpedoes 7 Auxiliary ships 7.1 Troop ships 7.2 Artillery training ships 7.3 Torpedo training ships 7.4 Radio-controlled targets 7.5 Sail training ships 7.6 Floating anti-aircraft batteries 7.7 Escort 7.8 Gunboats 7.9 Blockade runners/Auxiliary minelayers 8 Captured foreign warships 9 Unfinished Ships 9.1 Aircraft carriers 9.2 Heavy cruisers 9.3 Destroyers 9.4 Torpedo boats

The list of Kriegsmarine ships includes all ships commissioned into the Kriegsmarine, the German navy of the Third Reich period, 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.

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Major warships

Battleships

• Bismarck class (42,000 tons, 8 x 380 mm guns)
  • Bismarck, 1939
  • Tirpitz, 1939
• Scharnhorst class (35,000 tons, 9 x 280 mm guns)
  • Gneisenau, 1936
  • Scharnhorst, 1936

Pre-Dreadnoughts

• Deutschland class (15,000 tons, 4 x 280mm guns)
  • Schleswig-Holstein, 1906
  • Schlesien, 1906

Heavy cruisers

• Deutschland class (12,000 tons, 6 x 280 mm guns)
  • Lützow (ex-Deutschland), 1931
  • Admiral Scheer, 1933
  • Admiral Graf Spee, 1934
• Admiral Hipper class (14,000 tons, 8 x 203 mm guns)
  • Admiral Hipper, 1937
  • Blücher, 1937
  • Prinz Eugen, 1938

Light cruisers

• Emden class (6,000 tons, 8 x 150 mm guns)
  • Emden, 1925
• K class (7,200 tons, 9 x 150 mm guns)
  • Königsberg, 1925
  • Karlsruhe, 1927
  • Köln, 1928
• Leipzig class (8,000 tons, 9 x 150 mm guns)
  • Leipzig, 1929
  • Nürnberg, 1934

Destroyers and torpedo boats

Destroyers

• Type 1934 (3,155 tons, 5 × 127 mm guns)
  • Z1 Leberecht Maas 1937
  • Z2 Georg Thiele 1937
  • Z3 Max Schultz 1937
  • Z4 Richard Beitzen 1937
• Type 1934 A (Commissioned 1937–1939)
  • Z5 Paul Jakobi
  • Z6 Theodor Riedel
  • Z7 Hermann Schoemann
  • Z8 Bruno Heinemann
  • Z9 Wolfgang Zenker
  • Z10 Hans Lody
  • Z11 Bernd von Arnim
  • Z12 Erich Giese
  • Z13 Erich Koellner
  • Z14 Friedrich Ihn
  • Z15 Erich Steinbrinck
  • Z16 Friedrich Eckoldt
• Type 1936
  • Z17 Diether von Roeder
  • Z18 Hans Lüdemann
  • Z19 Hermann Künne
  • Z20 Karl Galster
  • Z21 Wilhelm Heidkamp
  • Z22 Anton Schmitt
• Type 1936 A (Narvik)
  • Z23 through Z30
• Type 1936 A (Mob)
  • Z31 through Z34
  • Z37 through Z39
• Type 1936 B
  • Z35 through Z36
  • Z43 through Z45

Torpedo boats

• Torpedoboot 1923 ("Raubvogel") (900 tons, 3 x 105 mm guns)
  • Möwe
  • Falke
  • Greif
  • Kondor
  • Albatros
  • Seeadler
• Torpedoboot 1924 ("Raubtier") (950 tons, 3 x 105 mm guns)
  • Wolf
  • Iltis
  • Jaguar
  • Leopard
  • Luchs
  • Tiger
• Torpedoboot 1935 (1,090 tons, 1 x 105 mm gun)
  • T1 through T12
• Torpedoboot 1937 (1,150 tons, 1 x 105 mm gun)
  • T13 through T21
• Flottentorpedoboot 1939 (Elbing) (1,750 tons, 4 x 105 mm guns)
  • T22 through T36

Auxiliary cruisers

• Orion
• Atlantis
• Widder
• Thor
• Pinguin
• Stier
• Komet
• Kormoran
• Michel
• Coronel
• Hansa

Mine warfare craft

Minelayers

• Tannenberg 1935 (5,500 tons, 3 x 150mm guns, 460 mines)
• Brandenburg 1936 (3,900 tons, 3 x 105mm guns, 250 mines)
• Lothringen 1941 (2,000 tons, 2 x 88mm guns, 200 mines)
• Niedersachsen 1934 (1,800 tons, 2 x 105mm guns, 260 mines
• Drache 1924 (1,800 tons, 2 x 88mm guns, 120 mines)
• Brummer 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)
• Oldenburg 1934 (1,200 tons, 2 x 88mm guns, 145 mines
• Kamerun 1939 (370 tons, 2 x 88mm guns, 100 mines)
• Togo 1939 (370 tons, 2 x 88mm guns, 100 mines)
• Kiebitz 1943

Sperrbrecher

• Sperrbrecher 1 – Sperrbrecher 100 (5,000 tons, 2 x 88mm guns)

Minesweeper

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

R Boats

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

Mine hunters

• KM1 – KM36

Small craft

E-boats

• S-1 class (50 tons, 1 x 20mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
  • S1 – S25
• S-26 class (75 tons, 1 x 20mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
  • S26 – S29
• S-30 class (80 tons, 1 x 20mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
  • S30 – S37
• S-38 class (80 tons, 1 x 20mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
  • S38 – S60
• S-38b class (90 tons, 2 x 20mm guns, 2 torpedo tubes)
  • S61 – S99
• S-100 class (100 tons, 1 x 37mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
  • S100 – S150
• S-151 class (100 tons, 1 x 37mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
  • S151 – S205

U-boats

Training submarines

• Type I
  • U25 and U26

Coastal submarines

• Type IIA
  • U1 through U6
• Type IIB
  • U7 through U24
  • U120 and U121
• Type IIC
  • U56 through U63
• Type IID
  • U137 through U152
• Type XVIIB
  • U1405 through U1407

Ocean-going submarines

• Type VIIA
  • U27 through U36
• Type VIIB
  • U45 through U55
  • U73 through U76
  • U83 through U87
  • U99 through U102
• Type VIIC
  • U69 through U72
  • U77 through U82
  • U88 through U98
  • U132 through U136
  • U201 through U212
  • U221 through U232
  • U235 through U291
  • U301 through U316
  • U331 through U394
  • U396 through U458
  • U465 through U486
  • U551 through U683
  • U701 through U722
  • U731 through U768
  • U771 through U779
  • U821 through U822
  • U825 and U826
  • U901 through U907
  • U921 through U928
  • U951 through U994
  • U1051 through U1058
  • U1101 and U1102
  • U1131 and U1132
  • U1161 and U1162
  • U1191 through U1210
• Type VIIC 41
  • U292 through U300
  • U317 through U328
  • U827 and U828
  • U929 and U930
  • U995 through U1010
  • U1013 through U1025
  • U1063 through U1065
  • U1103 through U1110
  • U1163 through U1172
  • U1271 through U1279
  • U1301 through U1308
• Type IXA
  • U37 through U44
• Type IXB
  • U64 and U65
  • U103 through U111
  • U122 through U124
• Type IXC
  • U66 through U68
  • U125 through U131
  • U153 through U166
  • U171 through U176
  • U501 through U524
• Type IXC 40
  • U167 through U170
  • U183 through U194
  • U525 through U550
  • U801 through U806
  • U841 through U846
  • U853 through U858
  • U877 through U899
  • U1221 through U1235
• Type IXD
  • U177 through U182
  • U195 through U200
  • U847 through U852
  • U859 through U864
  • U871 through U876

Minelaying submarines

• Type VIID
  • U213 through U218
• Type XB
  • U116 through U119

Supply submarines

• Type VIIF
  • U1059 through U1062
• Type IXD /42
  • U883 and U884
• Type XB
  • U219 and U220
  • U233 and U234
• Type XIV
  • U459 through U464
  • U487 through U490

Electric boats

• Type XXI
  • U2501 through U2531
  • U2533 through U2548
  • U2551 and U2552
  • U3001 through U3044
  • U3501 through U3530
• Type XXIII
  • U2321 through U2371
  • U4701 through U4707
  • U4709 through U4712

Midget submarines

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

Human torpedoes

• Neger (1 x torpedo)
  • 200 commissioned
• Marder (3 tons, 1 x torpedo)
  • 500 commissioned
• Hai (Prototype)
  • 1 commissioned

Auxiliary ships

Troop ships

• Cap Arcona, 1927
• Deutschland, 1923
• Goya, 1940
• Steuben, 1923
• Wilhelm Gustloff, 1937

SS Hamburg 1926 SS Pretoria 1936 SS Albert Ballin/Hansa 1923

Artillery training ships

• Bremse 1933 (1,800 tons, 4 x 127mm guns, 280 mines)
• Brummer 1934 (3,000 tons, 8 x 105mm guns, 480 mines)

Torpedo training ships

• Hugo Zeye, 1942

Radio-controlled targets

• Braunschweig class battleship
  • Hessen, 1900
• Wittelsbach class battleship
  • Zahringen, 1898

Sail training ships

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

Floating anti-aircraft batteries

• Scout Cruiser Arcona
• Scout Cruiser Medusa
• Dutch coastal defence ship Gelderland
• Norwegian coastal defence ship Tordenskjold
• Norwegian coastal defence ship Harald Haarfagre

Escort

• F class (700 tons, 2 x 105mm guns)
  • F-1 – F10
• PA class (925 tons, 1 x 105mm gun)
  • PA-1 – 4

Gunboats

• LS1 – LS12

Blockade runners/Auxiliary minelayers

• Doggerbank

Captured foreign warships

A significant number of foreign warships were captured and recommissioned into the Kriegsmarine. Some were never completed.

• French battleship Clemenceau, captured 1941, launched 1943 (never completed)
• Soviet battleship Sovetskaya Ukraina, laid down 1938, captured 1941 (never completed)

Unfinished Ships

Aircraft carriers

• Graf Zeppelin class see www.stephenburkebooks.co.uk
  • Graf Zeppelin, launched 1938 (never completed)
  • Flugzeugträger B, never launched

Heavy cruisers

• Seydlitz, (uncompleted, intended for conversion into light aircraft carrier, but never completed)
• Lützow, (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.