SS Gneisenau was a 18,160 gross register tons (GRT) Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) ocean liner that was launched and completed in 1935. Like several other German...

1942; sunk 1944 by US submarine USS Spadefish. AG Weser 1935: geared-turbine ocean liner Gneisenau for Norddeutscher Lloyd. Sunk by a mine in the Baltic...

(HSK-3, Schiff 21) Thor (HSK-4, Schiff 10) Pinguin (HSK-5, Schiff 33) Stier (HSK-6, Schiff 23) Komet (HSK-7, Schiff 45) Kormoran (HSK-8, Schiff 41) Michel...

requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine during World War II and was designated Schiff 40 and later Sperrbrecher 18. Severely damaged in an Allied air raid on...

trials. Bremen was built by the new German shipbuilding company Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau. She was built from 7,000 tons of high-strength steel...

along with several passenger liners. These included Europa, Potsdam, and Gneisenau. The unfinished French cruiser De Grasse was also to be converted. As...

Verkehrswesen, Berlin 1987. Heinz Schön: Fahrgastschiff „Robert Ley“. Ein KdF-Schiff im Frieden und Krieg. In: Reihe SMS – Schiffe, Menschen, Schicksale. Heft...

intended for service as a commerce raider. Known to the Kriegsmarine as Schiff 45, to the Royal Navy she was named Raider B. After completing one successful...

Deutsche Afrika-Linien and the Deutsche Levante Linie. In 1935, the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and Potsdam, each with about 18,000 GRT, were placed in service...

torpedo bomber, including attacks on the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau while in port in Brest, the Beaufort more often used bombs in European...