The list of Kriegsmarine ships includes all ships commissioned into the Kriegsmarine, the navy of Nazi Germany, during its existence from 1935 to the conclusion of World War II in 1945.
See the list of naval ships of Germany for ships in German service throughout the country's history.
Capital ships
Pre-dreadnought battleships
Class Displacement(standard) Main battery Speed Ship Image Commis-sioned Fate 15,000 tons 4 × 11-in. 18 kn Oct 1907 Scrapped between 1944 and 1946 19.1 kn Jul 1908 Scuttled, Mar 1945 18.5 kn May 1908 Mined off Swinemünde in May 1945
Modern battleships
Class Displacement(standard) Main battery Speed Ship Image Commis-sioned War loss Bismarck: 41,700 tonsTirpitz: 42,900 tons 8 × 15-in. 30 kn Aug 1940 Scuttled following incapacitating battle damage,May 1941 Feb 1941 Sunk by air attack,Nov 1944 32,100 tons 9 × 11-in. 31 kn Jan 1939 Sunk by gunfire,Dec 1943 May 1938 Sunk as a blockship,Mar 1945
Cruisers
Heavy cruisers
Class Displacement(standard) Main battery Speed Ship Image Commis-sioned War loss Postwar 14,290 tons 6 × 11-in. 28 kn ;renamed LützowJan 1940 Apr 1933 Air attack Baltic Sea,Apr 1945 Nov 1934 Air attack Kiel,Apr 1945 Jan 1936 Scuttled Montevideo,Dec 1939 18,200 tons 8 × 8-in. 32 kn Apr 1939 Scuttled Kiel,May 1945 Sep 1939 Sunk Drøbak Sound,Apr 1940 Aug 1940 Prize of US
Light cruisers
Class Displacement(standard) Main battery Speed Ship Image Commis-sioned War loss Postwar 6,990 tons 8 × 5.9-in. 29.5 kn Oct 1925 Scuttled Heikendorf,May 1945 7,700 tons 9 × 5.9-in. 32 kn Apr 1929 Air attack Bergen,Apr 1940 Nov 1929 Scuttled off Kristiansand,Apr 1940 Jan 1930 Air attack Wilhelmshaven,Mar 1945 8,900 tons** 9 × 5.9-in. 32 kn Oct 1931 Scuttled,Jun 1946 Nov 1935 Prize of USSR
* Janes Fighting Ships of World War Two. 1994 reprint of 1945/46 edition, Crescent Books, Random House, New York
Destroyers and torpedo boats
Named destroyers
+ Class Displace-ment Torpedoload Speed Image Ship War loss Postwar Type 1934destroyers 3,155 tons 8 × 21-in. 36 kn Z1 Leberecht Maass Sunk, Feb 1940 Z2 Georg Thiele Beached, Apr 1940 Z3 Max Schultz Sunk w all hands, Feb 1940 Z4 Richard Beitzen Scrapped, 1949 Type 1934Adestroyers 2,270 tons 8 × 21-in. 36 kn Z5 Paul Jakobi Scrapped, 1954 Z6 Theodor Riedel Scrapped, 1958 Z7 Hermann Schoemann Scuttled, May 1942 Z8 Bruno Heinemann Mined, Jan 1942 Z9 Wolfgang Zenker Scuttled, Apr 1940 Z10 Hans Lody Scrapped, 1949 Z11 Bernd von Arnim Scuttled, Apr 1940 Z12 Erich Giese Sunk, Apr 1940 Z13 Erich Koellner Scuttled, Apr 1940 Z14 Friedrich Ihn Scrapped, 1952 Z15 Erich Steinbrinck Scrapped, 1958 Z16 Friedrich Eckoldt Sunk, Dec 1942 Type 1936destroyers 3,470 tons 8 × 21-in. 36 kn Z17 Diether von Roeder Scuttled, Apr 1940 Z18 Hans Lüdemann Scuttled, Apr 1940 Z19 Hermann Künne Scuttled, Apr 1940 Z20 Karl Galster Scrapped, 1958 Z21 Wilhelm Heidkamp Sunk, Apr 1940 Z22 Anton Schmitt Sunk, Apr 1940
Numbered destroyers
+ Class Displace-ment Torpedoload Speed Image Ship War loss Postwar Type 1936A (Narvik)destroyers 2,657 tons 8 × 21-in. 36 kn Z23 Scuttled, Aug 1944 Z24 Air attack, Aug 1944 Z25 Prize of France Z26 Sunk, Mar 1942 Z27 Sunk, Dec 1943 Z28 Air attack, Mar 1945 Z29 Scuttled, 1946 Z30 Scrapped, 1948 Type 1936A (Mob) 2,657 tons 8 × 21-in. 36 kn Z31 Prize of France Z32 Grounded, Jun 1944 Z33 Prize of USSR Z34 Scuttled, 1946 Z37 Scuttled, Aug 1944 Z38 Prize of UK Z39 Prize of US Type 1936B destroyer 3,542 tons 8 × 21-in. 36 kn No image available Mined, Dec 1944 Mined, Dec 1944 Scuttled, May 1945 Scrapped, 1946 Type 1936C destroyer 3,625 tons 8 × 21-in. 37.5 kn No image available Blown up, 1945 Blown up, 1945
Torpedo boats
Torpedoboot 1923 ("Raubvogel") (900 tons, 3 × 105 mm guns)
Torpedoboot 1924 ("Raubtier") (950 tons, 3 × 105 mm guns)
Torpedoboot 1935 (1,090 tons, 1 × 105 mm gun) through Torpedoboot 1937 (1,150 tons, 1 × 105 mm gun) through Flottentorpedoboot 1939 (Elbing) (1,750 tons, 4 × 105 mm guns) through
Auxiliary cruisers
Mine warfare craft
Minelayers 1935 (5,500 tons, 3 × 150 mm guns, 460 mines) 1936 (3,900 tons, 3 × 105 mm guns, 250 mines) 1941 (2,000 tons, 2 × 88 mm guns, 200 mines) 1934 (1,800 tons, 2 × 105 mm guns, 260 mines) 1939 (2,431 tons, 2 × 88 mm guns, 360 mines) 1942 (3,152 tons, 4 x 20 mm guns, 80 mines)Neculai Pădurariu, Reinhart Schmelzkopf, Die See-Handelsschiffe RumäniensH. T. Lenton, German warships of the Second World War, p. 374 1924 (1,800 tons, 2 × 88 mm guns, 120 mines) 1940 (3 × 10.5 cm guns, 2 × 3.7 cm anti-aircraft guns, 10 × 2 cm anti-aircraft guns, 4 × 46 cm torpedo tubes, 280 mines) 1934 (1,200 tons, 2 × 88 mm guns, 145 mines) 1939 (370 tons, 2 × 88 mm guns, 100 mines) 1939 (370 tons, 2 × 88 mm guns, 100 mines) 1943
Sperrbrecher
Sperrbrecher 1 – Sperrbrecher 100 (5,000 tons, 2 × 88 mm guns)
Minesweeper
M1935 class (875 tons, 2 × 105 mm guns) M1 – M69 M1940 class (775 tons, 1 × 105 mm gun) M70 – M196 M1943 class (825 tons, 2 × 105 mm guns) M197 – M214
R Boats
R1 class 1929 (60 tons, 1 × 37 mm gun, 6 mines) R1 – R16 R17 class 1934 (115 tons, 1 × 37 mm gun, 12 mines) R17 – R24 R25 class 1938 (110 tons, 1 × 37 mm gun, 12 mines) R25 – R40 R41 class 1939 (125 tons, 1 × 37 mm gun, 12 mines) R41 – R129 R130 class 1940 (150 tons, 1 × 37 mm gun, 12 mines) R130 – R150 R151 class 1940 (125 tons, 1 × 37 mm gun, 12 mines) R151 – R217 R218 class 1942 (140 tons, 1 × 37 mm gun, 16 mines) R218 – R300 R301 class 1942 (160 tons, 1 × 88 mm gun, 16 mines, 2 torpedo tubes) R301 – R312
Mine hunters KM1 – KM36
Small craft
S-boats
S1 class (50 tons, 1 × 20 mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes) S1 – S25 S26 class (75 tons, 1 × 20 mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes) S26 – S29 S30 class (80 tons, 1 × 20 mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes) S30 – S37 S38 class (80 tons, 1 × 20 mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes) S38 – S60 S38b class (90 tons, 2 × 20 mm guns, 2 torpedo tubes) S61 – S99 S100 class (100 tons, 1 × 37 mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes) S100 – S150 S151 class (100 tons, 1 × 37 mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes) S151 – S205
U-boats
Training submarines Type I and
Coastal submarines Type IIA through Type IIB through and Type IIC through Type IID through Type XVIIB through
Ocean-going submarines Type VIIA through Type VIIB through through through through Type VIIC through through through through through through through through through through through through through through through through and through through through through and and and through Type VIIC 41 through through and and through through through through through through through Type IXA through Type IXB and through through Type IXC through through through through through Type IXC 40 through through through through through through through U-882 U-885 through through Type IXD through through through through through
Minelaying submarines Type VIID through Type XB through
Supply submarines Type VIIF through Type IXD /42 and Type XB and and Type XIV through through
Electric boats Type XXI through through and through through Type XXIII through through through
Midget submarines Seehund (17 tons, 2 × torpedoes) 138 commissioned Hecht (Training) 53 commissioned Biber (6.5 tons, 2 × torpedoes) 324 commissioned Molch (11 tons, 2 × torpedoes) 393 commissioned Delphin (Prototype) 3 commissioned Seeteufel (Prototype) 1 commissioned Schwertwal (Prototype) 1 commissioned
Human torpedoes Neger (1 × torpedo) 200 commissioned Marder (3 tons, 1 × torpedo) 500 commissioned Hai (Prototype) 1 commissioned
Auxiliary ships
Troop ships , 1927 , 1923 , 1940 , 1923 , 1937 , 1926 , 1936 /, 1923 , 1923
Artillery training ships 1933 (1,800 tons, 4 × 127 mm guns) 1934 (3,000 tons, 8 × 105 mm guns, 480 mines)
Torpedo training ships , 1942
Radio-controlled targets
, 1900
, 1898
Sail training ships Gorch Fock, 1933 (Russian training ship Tovarishch) Horst Wessel, 1936 (US Coast Guard Ship Eagle) Albert Leo Schlageter, 1937 (Portuguese training ship Sagres)
Aviso Grille, 1934
Floating anti-aircraft batteries ( light cruiser) (Gazelle class light cruiser) (ex-Dutch coastal defense ship) (ex-Dutch cruiser) (ex-Norwegian coastal defense ship) (ex-Norwegian coastal defense ship)
Escort (700 tons, 2 × 105 mm guns) F 1 – F 10 (925 tons, 1 × 105 mm gun) PA 1 – PA 4
Gunboats LS1 – LS12 The Following Gunboats were generally armed with one 5.9 inch, two 37mm (1×2) and six 20mm (6×1) guns. August 400 tons Launched 1936 Berkelstrom Cascade 338 tons Launched 1937 Globe 314 tons Launched 1937 Hast I Helene 400 tons Launched 1937 Joost Kemphaan 343 tons Launched 1936 Nijnberg Oostzee 336 tons Launched 1936 Ost 565 tons Launched 1939 Paraat Polaris 322 tons Launched 1936 Robert Müller 399 tons Launched 1936 Soemba Trompenberg West West Vlaanderen 346 tons Launched 1927
Blockade runners/Auxiliary minelayers
Weather ships (WBS 5) (WBS 8) (WBS 7 / WBS 14) (WBS 2 ) (WBS 11) / (WBS 1) (WBS 11 / WBS 8) (WBS 4) (WBS 5) (WBS 3 / WBS 4) WBS 6) (WBS 3) (WBS 3)
(WBS 9) (WBS 10) (WBS 6) (WBS 5) (WBS 7) (WBS 10) (WBS 10) (WBS 12) (WBS 1)
Hospital ships
Fleet Tenders Saar Hela Tsingtau Adolf Lüderitz Carl Peters Otto Wünsche Waldemar Kophamel Wilhelm Bauer
Patrol boats Many vessels were requisitioned for use as vorpostenboote during the war.
Icebreakers
Castor Eisbär Eisvogel Pollux
Captured foreign warships A significant number of foreign warships were captured and recommissioned into the Kriegsmarine. , French battleship captured in 1940 while still under construction, but never completed. With Brest, France shipyard and drydock flooded and always under Allied bombers, it could never be completed. Faà di Bruno, laid down 1915, captured 1943, commissioned as monitor Biber, surrendered in 1945 and broken up. , laid down 1938, captured 1941 (never completed) HNLMS O 8, captured in 1940, taken into service as UD-1 used as training ship to train crews for the German U-boats. Decommissioned in 1943. , captured 1940, taken into service as UB The Danish training ship/coastal defense ship was refloated after an attempted destruction of the ship via running aground during Battle of Isefjord, disarmed and used as a training ship renamed Nordland by the Kriegsmarine. Scuttled a second time 3 May 1945, scrapped 1952. Four Norwegian s, , , , & were captured in 1940. All four ships saw service in the Kriegsmarine. Four French s, Arquebuse, Hallebarde, Sabre, & Poignard were captured in 1940 following the Fall of France. All except Poignard were completed and entered service as "Patrol vessels" PA 1 to PA 4 (the latter saw no service). HNLMS Gerard Callenburgh was scuttled to prevent her capture in 1940, but was nevertheless raised and commissioned into the Kriegsmarine as ZH1 in 1942. RHS Vasilefs Georgios was scuttled to prevent her captured in 1941, but was raised and commissioned into the Kriegsmarine as Hermes in 1942. French destroyer L'Opiniâtre was captured while still under construction. Germany intended to completed her, but construction was halted in 1943 and broken up for scrap that year. and light cruisers were captured in 1940 while still under construction. Renamed as KH1 and KH2 ("KH" means "Kreuzer Holland"), modified to fit an Atlantic Bow and redesigned for new German armament. Work was resume to be completed, but with very slow progress due to sabotage from the Dutch Resistance. KH1 was launched in 1944 to be use as blockship. Both ships were completed with a modernized post WW II design and commissioned into Dutch service in 1953.