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    Admiral Hipper class was a group of five heavy cruisers built by Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine beginning in the mid-1930s. The class comprised Admiral Hipper...
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    Admiral Hipper was the lead ship of the Admiral Hipper class of heavy cruisers which served with Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. The ship...
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    Lützow was a heavy cruiser of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine, the fifth and final member of the Admiral Hipper class, but was never completed. The ship was...
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    Seydlitz was a heavy cruiser of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine, fourth in the Admiral Hipper class, but was never completed. The ship was laid down in December...
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    war. Hipper died on 25 May 1932. The Kriegsmarine commemorated him with the launching of the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper in 1938. Franz Hipper was born...
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    (German pronunciation: [ˈpʁɪnts ɔʏˈɡeːn]) was an Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser, the third of a class of five vessels. She served with Nazi Germany's...
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    two ships of this class as heavy cruisers. In 1940, she was renamed Lützow, after the unfinished Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser Lützow was sold to...
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  • Soviet cruisers: Soviet cruiser Tallinn (1940), an unfinished Soviet Navy Admiral Hipper-class cruiser, former German cruiser Lützow. Soviet cruiser Tallinn (1976)...
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    Blücher was the second of five Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruisers of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine (lit. 'War Navy'), built after the rise of the Nazi...
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  • Soviet cruiser Petropavlovsk (1940) - Admiral Hipper-class cruiser formerly named Lützow Soviet cruiser Petropavlovsk (1957) - Kirov-class cruiser formerly...
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    have been only 10 meters (33 ft) shorter than that of the Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser Seydlitz, which had been prepared for conversion in 1942,...
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    only the three Deutschland-class ships and three of the five Admiral Hipper-class cruisers were ever built. The terms of the Treaty of Versailles, which...
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    Admiral Scheer ([ˌatmiˈʁaːl ʃeːɐ̯]) was a Deutschland-class heavy cruiser (often termed a pocket battleship) which served with the Kriegsmarine (Navy)...
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  • Thumbnail for Fiji-class cruiser
    The Fiji-class cruisers were a class of eleven light cruisers of the Royal Navy that saw extensive service throughout the Second World War. Each ship of...
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  • name Hipper, after Franz von Hipper. German cruiser Admiral Hipper, an Admiral Hipper-class cruiser, in service 1939–1945. German frigate Hipper (F214)...
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  • Soviet cruiser Petropavlovsk (1940) - Admiral Hipper-class cruiser formerly named Lützow Soviet cruiser Petropavlovsk (1957) - Kirov-class cruiser formerly...
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    HMS Glowworm (H92) (category G and H-class destroyers of the Royal Navy)
    calling for help from the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper. In the chaos of battle, the heavily damaged Glowworm rammed Admiral Hipper. The collision broke off the...
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    types VII, IX and XXI Seebeck AG, 16 U-boats AG Weser, 1939, Admiral Hipper-class cruiser Seydlitz; 95% completed but never on duty, intended rebuilding...
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    to build five new heavy cruisers—the Admiral Hipper class. Plan Z, approved in early 1939, projected a dozen P-class cruisers based on the Deutschland...
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    carrier cancelled in 1938. Seydlitz: conversion of part-built Admiral Hipper-class cruiser. Work stopped in 1943 and not resumed. German aircraft carrier I:...
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    Einsätze des Schweren Kreuzers Admiral Hipper [Arctic, Atlantic, Baltic: The Operations of the Heavy Cruiser Admiral Hipper] (in German). Munchen: Heyne...
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    misidentified it as probably being an Admiral Hipper-class cruiser. Tovey judged that the ship was either Admiral Hipper or Admiral Scheer, and sailed with all...
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  • Severomorsk (1985) Admiral Levchenko (1987) Admiral Vinogradov (1987) Admiral Kharlamov (1988) Admiral Panteleyev (1990) Udaloy II class Admiral Chabanenko (1995)...
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    and Prinz Eugen. Berwick fought a gunnery action with the German cruiser Admiral Hipper, and Norfolk again fought German Navy surface units during Battle...
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    armored cruiser, the Imperial Russian Navy's General-Admiral, was launched in 1873 and combined sail and steam propulsion. By the 1890s, cruisers had abandoned...
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    Britain and used as a troop transport. Seydlitz, the fourth Admiral Hipper-class cruiser, was about 95 percent complete when she was cancelled after the...
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  • The P class was a planned group of twelve heavy cruisers of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine; they were the successor to the Deutschland-class cruisers. Design...
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    the light cruisers of the II Scouting Group began to pass the British forces searching for Hipper. Southampton spotted the light cruiser Stralsund and...
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    Imperial Japanese Navy with respect to heavy cruisers. The Germans built their Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruisers of 14,000 tons, although the Anglo-German...
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  • Thumbnail for 20.3 cm SK C/34 naval gun
    3 cm SK C/34 was the main battery gun used on the German Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruisers. These built-up guns consisted of a rifled tube encased within...
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