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[]
Fast battleships[]
- Bismarck class (42,000 tons, 8 x 380 mm guns)
- Scharnhorst class (35,000 tons, 9 x 280 mm guns)
- Scharnhorst, 1936
- Gneisenau, 1936
Pre-dreadnought battleships[]
- Deutschland class (15,000 tons, 4 x 280mm guns)
- Hannover, 1905
- 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
- Königsberg 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)
Destroyers and torpedo boats[]
Destroyers[]
Main article: German World War II destroyers
- Type 1934 (3,155 tons, 5 × 127 mm guns)
- Z1 Leberecht Maass, 1937
- Z2 Georg Thiele, 1937
- Z3 Max Schultz, 1937
- Z4 Richard Beitzen, 1937
- Type 1934A (Commissioned 1937–1939)
- Type 1936
- Type 1936A (Narvik)
- Type 1936A (Mob)
- Type 1936B
Torpedo boats[]
Main article: German torpedo boats of World War II
- 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)
- Torpedoboot 1937 (1,150 tons, 1 x 105 mm gun)
- Flottentorpedoboot 1939 (Elbing) (1,750 tons, 4 x 105 mm guns)
Auxiliary cruisers[]
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[]
Main article: Sperrbrecher
- Sperrbrecher 1 – Sperrbrecher 100 (5,000 tons, 2 x 88mm guns)
Minesweeper[]
Main article: M-class minesweeper (Germany)
- 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[]
Main article: R boat
- 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[]
S-boats[]
Main article: Schnellboot
- S1 class (50 tons, 1 x 20mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
- S1 – S25
- S26 class (75 tons, 1 x 20mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
- S26 – S29
- S30 class (80 tons, 1 x 20mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
- S30 – S37
- S38 class (80 tons, 1 x 20mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
- S38 – S60
- S38b class (90 tons, 2 x 20mm guns, 2 torpedo tubes)
- S61 – S99
- S100 class (100 tons, 1 x 37mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
- S100 – S150
- S151 class (100 tons, 1 x 37mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
- S151 – S205
U-boats[]
Training submarines[]
Coastal submarines[]
Ocean-going submarines[]
- Type VIIA
- Type VIIB
- Type VIIC
- U-69 through U-72
- U-77 through U-82
- U-88 through U-98
- U-132 through U-136
- U-201 through U-212
- U-221 through U-232
- U-235 through U-291
- U-301 through U-316
- U-331 through U-394
- U-396 through U-458
- U-465 through U-486
- U-551 through U-683
- U-701 through U-722
- U-731 through U-768
- U-771 through U-779
- U-821 through U-822
- U-825 and U-826
- U-901 through U-907
- U-921 through U-928
- U-951 through U-994
- U-1051 through U-1058
- U-1101 and U-1102
- U-1131 and U-1132
- U-1161 and U-1162
- U-1191 through U-1210
- Type VIIC 41
- Type IXA
- Type IXB
- Type IXC
- Type IXC 40
- Type IXD
Minelaying submarines[]
Supply submarines[]
Electric boats[]
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
- General von Steuben, 1923
- Wilhelm Gustloff, 1937
- Hamburg, 1926
- Pretoria, 1936
- Albert Ballin/Hansa, 1923
Artillery training ships[]
Torpedo training ships[]
- Hugo Zeye, 1942
Radio-controlled targets[]
- Braunschweig class
- Hessen, 1900
- Wittelsbach class
- Zähringen, 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[]
Escort[]
Gunboats[]
- LS1 – LS12
Blockade runners/Auxiliary minelayers[]
Captured foreign warships[]
A significant number of foreign warships were captured and recommissioned into the Kriegsmarine. Some were never completed.
- Clemenceau, captured 1940, launched 1943 (never completed)
- Sovetskaya Ukraina, laid down 1938, captured 1941 (never completed)
- Italian monitor Faà di Bruno, laid down 1915, captured 1943, commissioned as monitor Biber, surrendered in 1945 and broken up.
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.
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