The heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, max. displacement 18.750 tons, was commissioned on 1/8/1940 at the Krupp Germaniawerft in Kiel. After having sunk the Hood in collaboration with the Bismarck, it made a successful breakthrough from Brest on 11/2/1942. Repaired after a torpedo had blown her stern on 23/2/1942 was deployed to shell advancing Russian troop concentrations along the Baltic coast. At the end of the War, she was handed over to US-Navy, and she sunk on 22/12/1946 after the atomic bomb tests at Bikini atoll.