Its amazing to think had the "USS Prinz Eugen" (as IX300) been donated to say, South Vietnam or Taiwan or Argentina etc. then this ship might have been used in the Vietnam War, Quemoy Straits or even the Falklands.

@dragonburst8489

2 ай бұрын

She probably would have served for a short while in the usn if her engines didn't break.

@Ah01

Ай бұрын

@@dragonburst8489Nope. They already had overwhelming numbers of ships, cruisers too, to mothball or break. American built ships that were much easier to use than a foreign vessel with a (to say the least) problematic engine design to begin with. Americans had built more or less the best ships in every warship category there was in 30`ies and 40`ies.

my Grandfather Horst O Schneider (RIP) was Sgt. of Arms.on Prinz Eugen at end of war. When he returned to Berlin, became a police officer for many years. Immigrated to US in late 60"s as a tool maker. The stories told to me about the Bismarch getting full credit for sinking the Hood was for pure political reasons. My grandfather claims the Prinz Eugen was the 1st to strike the Hood. Also stories about seeking help for safe passage back to Berlin, due to the Russians killing every German soldier found. OPA never talked about WWII until his later years of life.

@yasi4877

Ай бұрын

Reports on the longest range hits say that Prinz Eugen was first to hit the Hood from 20kms range with its 8" main guns and started a fire. Is it possible that fire caused the Hood to explode some minutes later?

Visually, the most beautiful ship of that era IMO.

@GrudgeyCable

6 ай бұрын

Agreed. The hipper class as a whole is beautiful. Not since the age of sail has a ship looked so sleek and beautiful imo. Although Hood is up there haha.

@adriantowe278

6 ай бұрын

I agree she is my favourite with bismarck and tirpitz 2nd

@stargatecommand714

Ай бұрын

I go more for the Richelieu and Littorio classes

Thank you for pronouncing Prinz Eugen correctly.

@herbertblum7704

Жыл бұрын

Almost! The correct pronunciation is Prinz Eug ee n! The "e" has to be stressed. Even most German speakers don't know this. But it's far better than something like "Prince Eugene".

If something is "lucky", you don't get rid of it. Those nuclear tests after the war proved it was lucky, and it meant something. But by then it was too late. Hood, Bismarck, Yamato, Arizona, etc....those are unlucky.

She truly was one of the luckiest ships

@WojciechWachniewski-st1zm

Ай бұрын

Even having been launched 20 years AFTER the 'Hood'. ♍

I’ve found one of her ships bells in the village council dump back in the late 1980s , in north west mainland Scotland and has been hanging in my house ever since , just stumbled on this ,and her very interesting history , did not realise she was such a important and famous ship during the war . Always liked the bell , and is quite amazing where some things end up in our world . Love my Bell .

@camelsac

10 ай бұрын

My cousin has the Kriegsmarine ensign from the PE.

@Bloodredprinceps

4 ай бұрын

@murdomacleod2371 That's kinda cool, im a big fan of cool old bells too, what does the bell look like?

Tbh the US just wants Nagato, so that they can beat the ever living shit out of the Flagship of the Pearl harbor Attack

Such a beautiful ship

@NorceCodine

6 ай бұрын

Yes, too elegant for a battleship.

She should have been preserved,

She reminded me of a cranky grandma that just keeps living somehow. Her internals basically fall apart when she gets to the USA. Then she mostly survives the nuke tests and just sits pouting in a shallow lagoon.

@benmccleland1149

Жыл бұрын

Seemingly siphoning luck from other ships to survive as long as he did? Na, she was a damn vampire! Lol!

No establishment politicians are named Saratoga, so the name will probably never be used again.

A question. Are there any photos of her late war radar fit?. Like when she was surrendered in Denmark?. And another thing that I find strange is why didn't the German Navy install Wrezburg sets on all of the anti- aircraft director's???.

Good overview of a beautiful ship, but I think your thumbnail shows her older sister, Hipper - the straight bow being a giveaway.

@maxart3392

Жыл бұрын

... or was her "Atlantic bow" added at some later time?

@TTTT-oc4eb

Жыл бұрын

@@maxart3392 Hipper had her (smaller) Atlantic bow added after she had been commissioned, while PE had her added after she just had been launched and still much work remained.

It would have been nice to give a brief description of her namesake, Prince Eugene of Savoy, an interesting person in his own right

Prinz Eugen's luck spread to her captain. Helmuth Brinkmann lived to his 80's. Hood's officers, Lancelot Holland and Ralph Kerr, died in the Denmark Straits the day of the Battle and Bismarck's officers, Gunther Lutjens and Ernst Lindemann, died 3 days later when Bismarck was sunk. The captain of Prince of Wales, John Leach, went down with Prince of Wales December 10 that year.

@bkjeong4302

Жыл бұрын

I swear, she must have sucked all the luck out of the three capital ships present at Denmark Straits.

The radiation on Prinz Eugen is negligable at this point. She's a very popular diving spot in the atoll, but because it's a US military installation, you have to get special permission to visit, and for this particular installation, that does not come easily.

Prinz: Ara, isn’t that you, Yukikaze Yukikaze: Hello fellow lucky ship. William D. Porter: Why are all Axis ships are the lucky ones!?

I dont remember the name of it but there was a Japanese destroyer called a lucky ship for the same thing. Ironically having it in your battle group was considered a bad omen.

@dannyjuarez8996

Жыл бұрын

It was the destroyer IJN Yukikaze

@jessnalulila5709

11 ай бұрын

There were two: the destroyer Yukikaze and the destroyer Shigure

Naming her after the Duke of Marlborough's greatest ally may have been a smart move. Blucher, named after the Duke of Wellington's greatest ally, was sunk by Norway, not the Royal Navy.

@DavidJones-ox8tp

Жыл бұрын

Well of course Noway, she was part of the invasion when hit by fort and coastal batteries and torpedoes, not sure anyone suggested it was the British who sank her.

Not Lucky! The Prinz Eugen was just extremly good

"sunny" pacific vacation. i know what you did there ;)

Prinz Eugen represented Hungary in the Kriegsmarine, that's why Miklos Horthy was at the launch ceremony, and his wife christened the ship. Hungary by this time was a landlocked country and so it commissioned a ship in the German navy. Prinz Eugen von Savoya became king of Hungary after leading an western alliance to take back Hungary from the Ottoman Turks, thus the name.

@WojciechWachniewski-st1zm

Ай бұрын

The Hungarian dreadnought was much more the 'Szent Istvan' of the same 'Viribus Unitis' class. By the way - is the latter name not a fitting motto to the EU and the NATO?! If a warship, say, a carrier or a frigate, were to be named 'Viribus Unitis' now, she would have to slide from the slip to the sounds of the ODE TO JOY! ♍👍👍👍❤️🇪🇺

Most humiliating way for a ship to live out it's afterlife with her butt sticking out of the water. I used to run past her when I went fishing. She lies a quarter mile beyond SAR Pass, tucked in the lee of a small island. lagoon side. Kinda a boring dive. Not many fish or corals by Kwaj standards. Neat to see her history with swastikas and all.

She was beautiful and then the usa goes and sinks it they had no right to do that but karma will get you everytime

“Auf Wiedersehen, Azur Lane.” Rest In Piece, Dear Eugen…

On here return from Norway, to repair the stern she downed several British bombers, some even with her 8" guns, so there is a reason why no hits were scored. Apart from the unreliable machinery the Hippers was the best CAs of the war.

@gildor8866

Жыл бұрын

Have to disagree with that. Even if we ignore her problematic engines (an important part of the design) the Hippers were significantly larger than treaty cruisers but offered only comparable firepower. Cruisers of the Mogami and Baltimore-class, larger than treaty cruisers but still smaller than the Hippers had more firepower. And there are no other factors like significantly better protection to make up for that. Seakeeping wasn't that great either, another common theme with german warships build in the thirties.

@niclasjohansson4333

Жыл бұрын

Firepower is not just about the number of gunbarrels, the Hippers hade the most powerful guns with the highest rate of fire of all WW2 heavy cruisers, and more importantly the best FCS, with by far the best rangefinders. USA and japan had loads of CAs, that did see quite a bit of action, but in all there shooting scored very few hits, even in the calm pacific with perfect "gunnery conditions". The Hippers scored hits on every enemy they shot at even in the roughest seastate, just take for example Hippers action, all alone, against the British troopconvoy on Dec 24, 1940, (22 troopships, 2 carriers, 3 cruisers and 6 destroyers) were she hit 4 ships, knocking the CA Berwick out of action, in heavy seas. The Brits did not score a single hit on the German ship. PE did not see to much fighting vs enemy ships but did hit both Hood and PoW, during the DS battle and 2 destroyers during the chanel dash, without being hit in return. Her armour covered larger parts of the ship than that of other cruisers, and even thou the main belt was only 80mm it was inclined, and backed up by another 50mm sloped "turtle back" armour. Her seakeeping was good enough, any US, japanese or Italian cruisers would have done a lot worse in Atlantic conditions. About the displacement, (often inflated) the Hippers was certanly larger than the older CAs of other navies, and almost identical to the late war Baltimores.

@gildor8866

Жыл бұрын

@@niclasjohansson4333 I don't see the german 8-inch guns outperforming all other 8-inch weapons in ww2, certainly not the french guns on the Duquesne and Algerie-class, similar rate of fire and larger bursting charge (granted, that one saw very little action). Engagements between US and japanese cruisers happened mostly at night, so are hard to compare to the Hippers daylight actions. The one "night" action the Hippers were involved was the Battle of the Barents Sea were Admiral Hipper didn't perform that well either and took damage from two british 6-inch gun cruisers without scoring any hits on them in return. Of course that is just a single data point which can't tell you that much. Same goes the other way round with the short duell between Admiral Hipper and Berwick. Due to the conditions Admiral Hipper could see Berwick clearly but Berwick could hardly make out the Admiral Hipper - small wonder Hipper got the better part in this engagement. Concerning the fire-control: Thanks to their stereoscopic rangefinders german ships usually got the range fast, but performance degraded the longer the engagement lasted due to the operator being worn out faster. Its a choice the germans made hoping to score hits fast and decide the battle with it. Worked spectacularly well with Bismarck sinking Hood, somehow didn't work at all when Bismarck faced Rodney and KGV. At the end of the day when comparing the Hippers with the Baltimores of roughly the same size would say the Baltimores offer more bang for the buck. The 5-inch secondary battery outperforms the 4.1-inch of Hippers in both AA and anti-surface role, the light and medium AA ist better. Also the operational range of the Baltimore is far greater 10.000 nautical miles vs. 7000 for the Hippers, and that really makes a difference when a cruiser is hunting in the Atlantic. And of course the engines are reliable. The only advantage the Hippers are the torpedoes that they have and the Baltimores don't have. But aside from the Japanese I can't find examples of cruisers really making good use of them.

@jorgefernandez145

Жыл бұрын

Hahahahaha Bismarck was superior Rodney, don’t drink cheap whiskey 🥃

@DavidJones-ox8tp

Жыл бұрын

@@gildor8866 ...of course they were up in size and fire power over German and UK 8inch cruisers. Particularly for UK there was not an opportunity for above limitation cruiser development...the war started in 1939. Nonetheless a number of engagements showed the value of light cruisers too Vs Graf Spee in 1939 and later vs Scharnhorst in a supporting role with Duke of York doing the heavy lifting.

Poor ship..USA should have learned how German nazi build theirs..it's a pity that such a beautiful ship is gone..tanking 2 nuclear bombs never sink ..without the zwastica on her she will be brilliant between the 2 countries..imagine presidents in the 21 century arriving in that ..

@sls12III

7 ай бұрын

She was better off sinking ngl. If she didn't sink, they would've scrapped her.

That's funny, everyone want this ship for the prestige it brings, then the Americans get it and are simply too dumb to maintain it, so they scrap it. Hilarious!

lucky for us Raeder was one stupid admiral..... instead building pocket battleships he built this garbage....

@dovetonsturdee7033

8 ай бұрын

Pocket Battleships became obsolete the day the French commissioned the Strasbourgs.

Photos dont make you understand the giant beast that was even the 10.5 canons looked giant compared to a marine

Lucky, but badly designed and pointless.

@jorgefernandez145

Жыл бұрын

Crazy 😜 old man