Admiral Hipper (Hipper Class)


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Laid down 6th July 1935
Launched 6th February 1937
Completed N/A
Commissioned 29th April 1939
Fate Scuttled:
3rd May 1945 at Kiel, Germany
Scrapped:
1948 - 1949
Builders Blohm & Voss, Hamburg
Germany
Complement 1600
Dimensions
Displacement 14247 tons std
18208 tons max
Dimensions 675' 4" x 69' 9"
Draught 19'
Armament
Main guns 8 x 8" (2 x 4)
Secondary guns 12 x 4.1" (6 x 2)
Torpedo tubes 12 x 21" (4 x 3)
Other weapons 12 x 40mm (6 x 2)
8 x 37mm (8 x 1)
Countermeasures None
Armour Deck: 0.5" - 2"
Belt: 2.75" - 3"
C.T.: 2" - 6"
Turrets: 2.75" - 4"
Aircraft Facilities
Aircraft 3 x Arado Ar196 seaplanes
Flightdeck None
Hangar N/A
Catapults 1
Arrestor system None
Aviation fuel N/A
Electronics Fit
Radar As built:
None
1940:
FuMo 22 surface search
1942:
2 x FuMo 40 surface search
Sonar None
ECM None
Other N/A
Machinery
Engines 12 x La Mont boilers
3 x Blohm & Voss steam turbines
Power output 133631shp
Speed 32.5kts
Shafts 3
Range 6500NM @ 17kts
Fuel 3050 tons oil

In April 1940, Hipper supported Operation Weser, the invasion of Norway. Between November and December 1940, she made a raiding cruise into the Atlantic, but only sank one ship. In December 1942, she was badly damaged by the British cruisers Sheffield and Jamaica. Repairs did not begin until January 1945 at Gotenhafen, but the advancing Russians forced a move to Kiel.

She was damaged in an air attack there on 3rd May 1945, and scuttled at Heinkendorferbucht. Hipper was scrapped in situ after the war.

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