In an interesting twist, it's not even an American warship. The United States captured the German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen as a war prize after the end of World War II. The Prinz Eugen capsized ...

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.

Dark Seas The Nazi Battleship the US Smashed with 2 Atomic Bombs Posted: May 14, 2025 | Last updated: May 14, 2025 Prinz Eugen was a marvel of German naval engineering from the 1930s, renowned for ...

Air crew of 42sqdn. shortly before the attack on Prinz Eugen 17th May 1942 front left flt.sgt. Charles Wallen (my father) front right P.O. John Saunders Both my father and my mother's first ...

Air crew of 42sqdn. shortly before the attack on Prinz Eugen 17th May 1942 front left flt.sgt. Charles Wallen (my father) front right P.O. John Saunders Both my father and my mother's first ...

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. The Prinz Eugen was a ship of ...

The United States even used a surrendered German battleship, the Prinz Eugen, in early nuclear tests. While U-Boats were a cause of concern for Allied forces crossing the waters of the Atlantic ...

See more stories on Insider's business page. 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 ...