When Britain discovered that Germany had deployed the formidable Bismarck and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen to wreak havoc in the ...

Among the storied ships of World War II, there's no lack of renown for aircraft carriers or battleships, but what were the ...

The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were ...

On May 20, while moving toward Norwegian waters near Sweden, the Bismarck, Prinz Eugen and their escort ships, were spotted by a Swedish cruiser, the Gotland around 1 P.M.

Her escort was the powerful heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, but they had no destroyer screen and could expect no help from the rest of the German fleet. Their task was to hit Allied shipping and run.

Out of Trondheim near week's end slipped the sleek 10,000-ton cruiser Prinz Eugen with four destroyers around her, a hefty flight of Nazi fighters circling overhead. British reconnaissance ...

1942 The German battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, plus the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen escape from Brest, France, to Germany in a daring dash up the English Channel.

Hood was lost on May 24, 1941, in a battle with the German battleship Bismarck and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen. The sinking in the North Atlantic’s Denmark Strait claimed 1,418 lives with only ...

Hood was lost on May 24, 1941, in a battle with the German battleship Bismarck and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen. The sinking in the North Atlantic’s Denmark Strait claimed 1,418 lives, with only ...