Admiral Hipper
"A must have for the Kriegsmarine commander. Lovely cammo scheme and coloring. Another classic model done right." Charles Saul - Monday, November 6, 2023
Admiral Hipper Class Heavy Cruiser
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- Admiral Hipper Class Heavy Cruiser
- CA-HIPPER-EM-P
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- Units in Stock: 8
Admiral Hipper Class Heavy Cruiser Summary
This is a 3D printed sculpt of the Admiral Hipper heavy cruiser by EBard Models.Of the 5 Admiral Hipper class heavy cruisers built by by the Kriegsmarine, only the first three were commissioned and saw action during World War II. Nonetheless, all the ships of the class had interesting service histories.
Work on Seydlitz stopped when she was approximately 95 percent complete; it was decided to convert her into an aircraft carrier, but this was not completed either. Lützow was sold incomplete to the Soviet Union in 1940.
Admiral Hipper and Blücher took part in Operation Weserübung, the invasion of Norway, in April 1940. Blücher was sunk by Norwegian coastal defenses outside Oslo while Admiral Hipper led the attack on Trondheim. She then conducted sorties into the Atlantic to attack Allied merchant shipping. In 1942, she was deployed to northern Norway to attack shipping to the Soviet Union, culminating in the Battle of the Barents Sea in December 1942, where she was damaged by British cruisers. Prinz Eugen saw her first action during Operation Rheinübung with the battleship Bismarck. She eventually returned to Germany during the Channel Dash in 1942, after which she too went to Norway. After being torpedoed by a British submarine, she returned to Germany for repairs. Admiral Hipper, while decommissioned after returning to Germany in early 1943, was partially repaired and recommissioned in the fall of 1944 for a refugee transport mission in 1945. Only Prinz Eugen continued to serve in full commission and stayed in the Baltic until the end of the war.
Admiral Hipper was scuttled in Kiel in May 1945, leaving Prinz Eugen as the only member of the class to survive the war. She was ceded to the United States Navy, which ultimately expended the ship in the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests in 1946. Seydlitz was towed to Königsberg and scuttled before the advancing Soviet Army could seize it. She was ultimately raised and broken up for scrap. Lützow, renamed Petropavlovsk, remained unfinished when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union. The ship provided artillery support against advancing German forces until she was heavily damaged and later sunk. She was raised a year later and repaired enough to participate in the campaign to relieve the Siege of Leningrad in 1944. She served on in secondary roles until the 1950s, when she was broken up.
Ships of Class:
- Admiral Hipper - Damaged in 1942, converted to a refugee transport, scuttled 1945
- Blücher - Sunk by coastal guns off Norway, 1940
- Prinz Eugen - Survived the war. Sunk during nuclear test, 1946
- Seydlitz - Scuttled 1945
- Lützow - Sold to USSR unfinished. Sunk, 1942, raised and repaired.
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