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

When Britain discovered that Germany had deployed the formidable Bismarck and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen to wreak havoc in the Atlantic, they scrambled to intercept them at any cost. On May 24, 1941, ...

Prinz Eugen flying the Stars and Stripes, January 1946. The German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen was one of the German Navy’s largest ships.

One such piece of surrendered equipment was the Prinz Eugen, a 697-foot Admiral Hipper Class German Heavy Cruiser named after Prince Eugene of Savoy, a 17th and 18th century Austrian general.

In July 1946, the German cruiser Prinz Eugen survived damaged but relatively intact during the Baker nuclear test at Bikini Atoll. The ship is at the right edge of the mushroom cloud.

It was taken as a token of victory, by my father, a sailor aboard HMS Devonshire, from the German heavy cruiser, the Prinz Eugen, following her surrender in May 1945.

Both men survived "Operation Cerberus" ( The Channel Dash ) and both took part in the attack on the German Battle Cruiser Prinz Eugen on 17th May 1942.

On the night of May 18, 1941, the German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen steamed out of its base at Gotenhafen (now Gdynia, Poland), followed five hours later by the Kriegsmarine's crown jewel, the ...