Prinz Eugen

She was named after Prince Eugene of Savoy.Prinz Eugen was the third ship of the Hipper-class heavy cruisers. Like her sister ships, Admiral Hipper and Blücher, she was built in the mid-1930s. During the planning and design stage she was known as "Kreuzer J" (Cruiser J). Her keel was laid at the Krupp Germania shipyard in Kiel on April 23, 1936, and her full cost would be 104.5 million Reichsmark. Prinz Eugen was launched on August 22, 1938, and commissioned on August 1, 1940. Considered a "lucky ship", she survived to the end of the war although she participated in only two major actions at sea. Specifications:
Scale: 1:144
Size of Model: 1470mm x 158mm x 400mm
Material: ABS Hull, Wood plank-over deck, resin and brass fittings
Drive System: 3 x 540 type motors, 3 x shaft & propellers
R/C system: 2 channel Radio, one Servo, one ESC
Complete and ready to run.
The ship's hull is molded in strong GRP, while the superstructure consists of laser-cut wooden and ABS parts. The model also features a large number of small metal items, all ready-made and factory-installed. The railings, catapult, companionways, ventilation grilles, etc., consist of etched brass sheet components, as this method produces finely detailed parts of a convincing scale appearance. The hull, superstructure components, masts and fittings feature a sprayed finish using matt paints and the many detail features and fittings give the model a particularly interesting appearance. The delicate rigging is also completely factory-assembled. On 24 May 1941, Prinz Eugen fought alongside Bismarck in the Battle of the Denmark Strait against HMS Hood, hitting the British battlecruiser at least once and starting a huge fire, and HMS Prince of Wales, hitting that battleship three times. The Hood was sunk during the engagement and the Prince of Wales damaged but the German ships were still shadowed by British warships. Later that day she was ordered off on her own from Bismarck, escaping the British ships, and headed south to rendezvous with the tanker Spichern and prepare for eventual commerce raiding in the Atlantic. After narrowly avoiding several British heavy units which were looking for Bismarck, she arrived at Brest, France, on 1 June 1941. The port was regularly bombed by the RAF, and on the night on 1 July Prinz Eugen was hit on the port side behind the bridge. The bomb detonated in the forward main artillery command centre, killing 60 of the crew.

From August 1944 onward, Prinz Eugen was deployed to shell advancing Soviet troop concentrations along the Baltic coast and to transport German refugees to the west. On 15 October 1944, she collided with the light cruiser Leipzig in heavy fog in the Baltic Sea, nearly cutting the smaller ship in two. For 14 hours the two ships drifted, locked together, until they could be separated. Prinz Eugen was repaired at Gotenhafen (Gdynia) and continued her tasks of shelling Soviet land forces and evacuating German refugees. On 29 March 1945 she left Gotenhafen for the last time with a load of refugees, reaching Swinemünde on 8 April 1945. The ship then departed for Copenhagen arriving on 20 April 1945. Lack of fuel meant that she did not leave port again. At the end of the war, she was one of only two operational German cruisers left (the other was the light cruiser Nürnberg), and was surrendered at Copenhagen on 7 May 1945.