2 Bismarck-class large battleships; (all sunk in the battle)
2 Scharnhorst-class battleships; (one sunk in the battle, one was scrapped after being severely damaged and used as a blockade ship Sunk)
3 Deutschland-class pocket battleships; (one was forced to sink in 1939, and two were destroyed in air raids in 45)
2 Deutsche-class pre-dreadnought battleships. (Both were scuttled by the crew in 1945)
In addition, before the war, Z planned to build 6 Hindenburg-class battleships, 3 O-class battlecruisers, and 12 P-class pocket battleships. Except for the two Hindenburg-class ships, which started construction in 1939, all construction plans were canceled, and the two Hindenburg-class ships were not launched. Their naval guns were completed and used as fortress guns.
Germany also captured some foreign battleships, including 2 Italian battleships, 1 Soviet ship and several French ships. These battleships were either captured incomplete or were salvaged after being sunk. Only one old Italian battleship was captured in a state of repair. None of them served in the German Navy and most were disbanded by the German army.
2 cruisers
The German Navy had 10 cruisers of the 6th class that served in World War II:
5 Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruisers, 3 completed , LUTZOW was sold to the Soviet Union to participate in World War II (in a semi-complete state), and the war ended after Seidlitz's modified aircraft carrier was 95% completed. Among the three ships in service, one sank in Norway in 1940, one was destroyed in an air raid in 1945, and the Prinz Eugen was destroyed in the postwar US atomic bomb test.
One Emden-class light cruiser was destroyed in an air raid in 1945.
There are three K-class light cruisers, two of which sank in Norway in 1940, and one of which sank after being severely damaged at the end of the war.
One Nuremberg-class light cruiser, which was compensated to the Soviet Union after the war.
One Leipzig-class light cruiser was deliberately sunk as an arms destruction ship in 1946 after the war.
The light cruiser NIOBE was an old ship of the German Navy in World War I. It served in the German Navy for a short time in World War II. It was originally a training ship of the Yugoslav Navy. After being captured by Italy, it became a light cruiser. It was captured by the Germans in 1943 and was co-piloted by German and Croatian naval personnel. It ran aground at the end of 1943 and was destroyed by a British torpedo boat the next day.
There are 18 M-class light cruisers proposed by the German Plan Z, but none of them have been completed. There is also a plan for the "SP" reconnaissance cruiser/destroyer leader. It is planned to build 22 ships. Except for the start of SP1 (Z40), only the engines of SP2 and 3 have been completed. The program was stopped because Germany wanted to build destroyers.
Germany also captured some other cruisers during World War II, including 2 heavy cruisers, 2 anti-aircraft cruisers, 4 light cruisers and 1 armored cruiser of the Italian Navy; several light cruisers of the French Navy, 2 Dutch Navy A light cruiser (the German plan is called "Training Cruiser KH1, 2"). The condition of these cruisers was similar to that of the captured battleships, and they were not in German service. It is worth mentioning that Germany once planned to convert a captured French light cruiser into an aircraft carrier! Of course, this was only a plan on paper and never implemented.
3 aircraft carriers
Two Zeppelin class ships, the first ship Zeppelin is 85% complete and equipped with artillery. It was scuttled in 1945. After the war, the Soviet Union salvaged it and used it as a target ship to sink in Leningrad. The other one had no name and disintegrated on the slipway after 60% completion.
Seidlitz, the original heavy cruiser of the same name, is 95% complete.
The plan to convert the cruise ship into an aircraft carrier, including the three cruise ships Europe, Elbe, and Gneisenno, remains on paper but has not been carried out. However, Japan converted the Scharnhorst, a mail ship of the same class as the Elbe and Gneisenau, into an aircraft carrier.
French light cruiser modification plan.
4 Auxiliary Cruisers
The German Navy converted 10 merchant ships as auxiliary cruisers during World War II. They sank more than 100 Allied merchant ships, including the Australian cruiser Sydney and 1 British large auxiliary cruiser. There is also the 11th ship, which turned out to be the German Navy torpedo boat training ship "Meersburg", and the modification was not completed.
When Italy surrendered in 1943, the Germans captured 10 former Italian Navy auxiliary cruisers, but the outcome is unknown.
Part Two: Medium Combat Ships
1 Destroyer
The German Navy put 42 various destroyers into service during World War II, including:
22 Z-class ships;
18 improved Z-class ships;
ZH1 captured from the Netherlands;
ZG3 captured from Greece;
After the war, 15 of these destroyers survived and were compensated to the Soviet Union, Britain and the United States.
There were as many as 68 destroyers in the German Z plan, but the numbers given to various plans successively proposed during World War II only reached Z56. Some German destroyers were nearly completed at the end of World War II, such as the Z44, Z45, Z51 and ZN4, but were not completed due to parts shortages or air raids and guerrilla sabotage.
Germany has captured many destroyers. In addition to ZH1 and ZG3, there are also Dutch ZH2-3, Norwegian TROLL and ZN4-5, French ZF2, 4, 7 and many Italian destroyers. Among them, the Norwegian TROLL and some Italian destroyers also served in the German army, but as "torpedo boats" rather than "destroyers".
2 Torpedo Boats (Thunder Strike Ships)
6 in the 1923 class;
6 in the 1924 class;
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12 ships of the 1937 class;
15 class torpedo boats of the 1939 class;
4 ships of the T107 class (remaining German torpedo boats after World War I, displacement 700T)
p>5 T152 class boats (same as above)
T196 (same as above, displacement 500T)
4 700T, 2 200T, and 12 100T torpedo boats seized from Norway ;
The TFA9 torpedo recovery boat was seized from the Netherlands;
Six 200-300T torpedo boats were seized from Denmark;
Three 900T torpedo boats were seized from France Torpedo boats;
33 torpedo boats captured from the Italian Navy (including 8 former destroyers);
There are also many destroyers and torpedo boats that were salvaged after sinking or were semi-completed, due to It’s too complicated to introduce them one by one.
3 Minesweepers
In World War II, the German Navy had 217 self-built minesweepers (displacement 800-900T), about 30 old World War I minesweepers (400T) and captured minesweepers. Some miscellaneous minesweepers from Poland and other countries.
69 minesweepers of the 1939 class;
131 minesweepers of the 1940 class;
17 minesweepers of the 1941 class;
1916 There are about 30 minesweepers of the class;
2 minesweepers captured from Poland;
2 minesweepers captured from Denmark;
Other miscellaneous minesweepers Several ships;
Some self-sinking minesweepers were also captured and were not in service.
4 minelayers and auxiliary minelayers
Before the war, Germany had a plan to build four large minelayers of 5,000 tons, but the plan was canceled in 1939. During World War II, the German Navy used captured ships or domestic merchant ships to transform about 20 minelayers of various sizes. During the invasion of Norway in 1940, the German army captured the Norwegian minelayer "Olav" and renamed it BRUMMER II. It was the only true minelayer of the German army in World War II.
The following is a brief introduction to several German minelayers:
Queen Louise, 2000T, a former German small passenger ship, was converted into a minelayer in 1939, equipped with 200 mines;
< p> Tannenberg, 4000T, a former German passenger ship, converted into a minelayer in 1939, and two other German minelayers in 1940 (one is Hansstadt Danzig, and the other seems to be PRESSUE) Collectively hit a mine and sank;The Xanten, formerly a 1915-class minesweeper of the German Navy, was sold to Romania after World War I. In 1941, the German Navy bought it back and used it as a minelayer. 400T.
No. M6063, a former French Navy coastal defense ship. After being captured by the Germans, it was first used as a frigate SG13, and later converted into an auxiliary minelayer M6063. It sank in a French port in 1944.
No. M6062, a former French fruit transport ship. After being captured by the Germans, it was used as a frigate and later converted into an auxiliary minelayer M6062. It sank in France in 1944.
5 auxiliary minesweepers
The German Navy invested 871 various auxiliary minesweepers in World War II. They were basically modified from large fishing boats. The ship names started with the same M as the minesweepers, but the general names It is a 4-digit number, such as: M1107, M1201, etc. For example: M1107, a former Norwegian ocean-going fishing vessel, was captured by the Germans in 1940 and converted into an auxiliary minesweeper. In 1944, while escorting a convoy, it was hit by a British bomber and ran aground, and later sank. It was salvaged and dismantled after the war.
6 Minebreakers
The large ones are about 5000-7000T, and the small ones are about 1000-2000T. During World War II, more than 100 merchant ships were converted into minebreakers, which were ships whose cabins were filled with plastic and other items and were designed to detonate mines at the front of the fleet. Not surprisingly, more than half of the ships were sunk while on duty.
The data of the mine-breaking ship is messy, and there is only one number as the name. It is worth noting that since 1942, all mine-breaking ships less than 3000T (all two-digit names) have been uniformly added with a "1" to become 3 digits, such as the "45" mine-breaking ship, if it is less than 3000T , it was renamed "No. 145" mine-breaking ship.
The 7 floating turrets
are mainly German World War I vintage ships or captured foreign old ships. During World War II, 7 floating anti-aircraft batteries and 2 training/air defense/coast defense batteries were put into use. Most are former cruisers or ironclads.
8 Frigates
Unlike the Allies, Germany often uses minesweepers, torpedo boats and patrol boats for escort, while destroyers and frigates avoid this as much as possible because they are too small in number. .
There are 10 F-class frigates, Germany’s only regular frigates in World War II. Judging from the 40-year escort fleet’s attack on Norway, the German frigates are a failed design and are far inferior to the cheap and effective German M-series minesweepers. . This class of ships lost 4 ships in World War II.
There are more than 10 SG series frigates, which are nominally a series, but are actually a hodgepodge of various ships, ranging from a 900T former French communication ship to a 4600T former French fruit transport ship. Of them, only SG1 and SG4 survived the war.
Three Flower-class frigates, PA1-3, were captured as semi-finished products from France, and the Germans completed three of them. They were all destroyed in an air raid in 1944.
9 Artillery Training Ship
BREMES, similar to a destroyer, participated in the Norwegian Campaign. In 1941, it was escorting two merchant ships and was spotted by a British cruiser at night. The ship fought heroically to allow the transport to escape, but was itself sunk.
BRUMMER, a 3000T large training ship, was damaged by bombers during the Battle of Norway and was eventually sunk by a British submarine.
Other small artillery training ships, such as a World War I German torpedo boat captured from the Belgian Navy, were converted into artillery training ships.
10 gunboats and auxiliary gunboats
K1 class gunboats, former Dutch gunboats, all 3 were captured by the Germans before completion and were put into service in the 1940s. One of them was sunk by a bomber.
The K4 gunboat, a former fishery patrol ship of the Belgian Navy, was captured by the Germans on the eve of its completion and put into service.
OST auxiliary gunboat, information unknown, hit a Soviet mine and sank in 1944.
The auxiliary gunboat WEST is the same as the OST.
11 submarine and speedboat support carriers
Including 18 submarine support ships, 14 torpedo boat support ships and 11 minesweeper support ships, as well as some special motherships. Many were modified based on merchant ships, so I won’t list them all.
Introduction to one ship: the torpedo boat support ship Romania, a 6000T merchant ship, was leased by the German Navy from Romania in 1941 as an auxiliary ship. After purchase in 42 years, it was converted into a torpedo boat carrier to support S series torpedo boats. Black Sea Operations.
12 other ships
The communication ship Cricket, a 3000T yacht-style warship, once served as the ship of the German Chancellor. It was modified early in World War II for mine-laying purposes. Reparations to Britain after the war.
The command ship HELA, 2,000 tons, was compensated to the United Kingdom after the war.
The liaison ship BLITZ was compensated to the Soviet Union after the war.
Various test ships.
Two ships including the target ship Hessen, old German battleships, were used to compensate the Soviet Union after the war.
The fighter guide ships KRETA and Togo are both modified merchant ships and equipped with radar systems. Togo was the former German auxiliary cruiser Coronel.
Various small seaplane carriers, carrying 2-3 seaplanes.
Surveying ship Meteor, a remaining German ship from World War I.
Four weather ships including the Munich were weather ships converted from fishing boats and freighters. Among them, the Saxony rescued survivors of the Bismarck.
Part Three: Auxiliary Ships
1 Hospital Ship. The German Navy invested in 54 hospital ships of various types during World War II, divided into large and small types.
2 Rescue boats carry a boat that floats on the water and resembles a small house. During the Battle of Britain, the British discovered such ships that washed up on the British coast after being thrown into the water. They were designed to rescue German pilots who fell into the water.
3 Icebreakers.
4 oil tankers.
5 coal ships.
6 troop ships.
7 seaplane supply ship.
8 Navy tugs.
9 Harbor Motor Boat.
10 Navy Quarters Barge.
11 munitions ship.
12 Supply ships and supply ships.
Of the 13 school sailing ships, the surviving 4 were compensated to the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union after the war. One of them, the "Eagle", is now serving in the U.S. Coast Guard.
14 dormitory ship.
15 floating crane vessels. It was used to salvage Danish sunken ships after the Danish fleet scuttled in 1943.
16 seaplane tug.
17 floating docks.
18 torpedo supply ship.
19 Special floating containers.
Part 4: Small surface ships
1 Torpedo boats: 220 in the S series.
2 Minesweepers: 300 R series.
3 minelayers: 45 LS and other models.
4 Hydrofoil boats: more than 10 in the VS series.
5 patrol boats: There are about 1,400 V series boats, with a displacement between 250-350T, equipped with one 75MM and one 37MM artillery, and about 100 members.
6 submarine hunting: 231 UJ series.
7 Air Force artillery barges: about 200.
8 Landing craft: The navy has more than 800 landing craft. In addition, there are more than 100 Air Force I-series landing craft.
9 Assault boats and pontoon speedboats: hundreds.
10 Lentil-class radio blasting speedboats: Unknown quantity.