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This is going to be a work in progress since I have found A LOT of photos so they will be coming in batches

These are of construction and launching of the Prinz Eugen

Enjoy

Nice pictures. Thanks for the posts Kyler.

Here are pictures of damage to Prinz Eugen these include her collision with I believe the Leipzig & when her bow was nearly blown off by a torpedo.

Her general pictures of Prinz Eugen either at sea, at base, or in action

Here are pictures of Prinz Eugen superstructure




























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Here are pictures of optics and radar equipment

Here are weapon systems

Here is the the pictures from the Baker Nuclear Test and the sinking of Prinz Eugen

Here is the last of the pictures that I have found so far



The major source of these pictures is http://www.prinzeugen.com/
If you like the pictures, the author of that website has information about most of the pictures and it is a great read about the ship

http://www.bismarck.dk was another source of the pictures I have posted so far.

Fascinating. Obviously a number of them were in US hands. It looks like she came through the A bomb test fine ... one photo presumably shows them hosing her down afterward. No list at all, but then we see her capsized. I wonder how long she sat there before she sank.

From what I've read, PE was sailed back to the US by her German crew after the surrender and the German crew aboard PE actually conducted a post-war gunnery exercise off the coast of Long Island to demonstrate the efficiency of PE's gunnery system for US observers. If anyone has any detailed info on that gunnery exercise, I'd be really interested to learn more about it .


Byron

Nagato and PE at that experiment. What a waste!

Karl Heidenreich wrote:Nagato and PE at that experiment. What a waste!

Not really a wast, Karl. The US expends old ships fairly often to test weapons. The USS America was sunk a few years ago for just that purpose, so we could find out the effects of a number of different weapons, and the ability of similar ships to withstand them. Then you can make changes if necessary, but the only way to be sure what will happen is to try them out. When I served in SSNs we routinely carried tactical nuclear weapons.