Admiral Hipper-class cruiser

The Admiral Hipper class was a group of five German heavy cruisers ordered for the Kriegsmarine in the mid-1930s, made up of the lead ship Admiral Hipper together with Blücher, Prinz Eugen, Seydlitz and Lützow. Three ships were completed and saw service in the Second World War. The last two, Seydlitz and Lützow, were built at the Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau yard in Bremen and never entered German service: Seydlitz stopped at about 95 percent complete and was later scuttled at Königsberg, while Lützow was sold unfinished to the Soviet Union in 1940. The completed ships carried eight 20.3 centimetre guns in four twin turrets and were driven by three sets of geared steam turbines. Only Prinz Eugen survived the war, and she was expended in the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests in 1946.