[67], After arriving in Boston, the ship was extensively examined by the US Navy. Bikini Atoll is a Chernobyl sized clean-up effort. [87] On 29 August 1946, the US Navy decommissioned Prinz Eugen. The shell reached Hood's rear ammunition magazine and detonated 112 t (110 long tons; 123 short tons) of cordite propellant. Two of the shells landed short, striking the water close to the ship, but at least one of the 38 cm armor-piercing shells struck Hood and penetrated her thin upper belt armor. [64] The convoy, consisting of six freighters, sailed on 15 September from the Gulf of Bothnia, with the entire Second Task Force escorting it. Everything else exposed to nuclear weapons from that time period are safe now. [17] The report eventually made its way to Captain Henry Denham, the British naval attaché to Sweden, who transmitted the information to the Admiralty. In February 1942, … [67] The United States did not particularly want the cruiser, but it did want to prevent the Soviet Union from acquiring it. Launched August 22, 1938. DaintyFoal1981_xbl, December 28, 2020 in Misc, Hello to anyone who is reading this and is interested in our project! For plan B it’s more risky but to rebuild the ship from everything that’s fell apart or in disrepair and safe fully and slowly move the ship to the nearest drydock for repairs. General der Jagdflieger (General of Fighter Force) Adolf Galland directed Luftwaffe fighter and bomber forces (Operation Donnerkeil) during Cerberus. For anymore questions please join the link below. [1] The Admiral Hippers were nominally within the 10,000-ton limit, though they significantly exceeded the figure. 1 Character Synopsis 2 Character Statistics 3 Other Attributes 4 Gallery 5 Others Prinz Eugenis an admiral ship of The Ironblood. [31] Hood engaged Prinz Eugen, which the British thought to be Bismarck, while Prince of Wales fired on Bismarck. Prinz Eugen was assigned to Operation Crossroads and took part in the Bikini Atoll tests. Prinz Eugen spent the remainder of 1940 conducting sea trials in the Baltic Sea. Both German ships concentrated their fire on Hood. The PE is covered by an extremophile fungus that eats radioactivity. If the ship does break apart when the lifting is started here is plan A and B: Plan A is to salvage the remaining parts that are still either partially or fully intact and use them in the full rebuild in a drydock either in a US drydock or Australian, or for a far stretch china due to the size of drydocks in those countries. These guys are guessing the numbers since those readings on the right are 400% below background. Two heavy cruisers maintain contact. During these operations, she fired a total of 2,025 shells from her 20.3 cm guns and another 2,446 rounds from her 10.5 cm guns. The ship also carried a pair of triple 53.3 cm (21.0 in) torpedo launchers abreast of the rear superstructure. James P.Delgado, Ghost Fleet: the Sunken Ships of Bikini Atoll, Honolulu, 1996 February 19, 2021 in Uncategorized. Along with the Bismarck she left port on 18th May 1941 but it was not until 21st May that British intelligence was informed that the ships were refuelling in Bergen Fjord in Norway.Afterwards the ships headed for the Denmark Straits in an attempt to avoid the Royal Navy based at Scapa Flow. [43], On 26 May, Prinz Eugen rendezvoused with the supply ship Spichern to refill her nearly empty fuel tanks. Prinz Eugen was laid down in 1936 by the Krupp Germania Werft Yards, Kiel, Germany; launched 20 August 1938; and commissioned in the German Navy 1 August 1940. Now America Is Trying To Save Its Oil Before It's Too Late", "U.S. Navy divers recover oil from wrecked WWII ship Prinz Eugen", Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1946, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=German_cruiser_Prinz_Eugen&oldid=1003942585, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-LCCN identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Surrendered 8 May 1945, transferred to US Navy, Design: 16,970 t (16,700 long tons; 18,710 short tons), This page was last edited on 31 January 2021, at 12:23. Yeah, you can visit either as a tourist, but you can't stay there for long. [64], As the Soviet Army pushed the Wehrmacht back on the Eastern Front, it became necessary to reactivate Prinz Eugen as a gunnery support vessel; on 1 October 1943, the ship was reassigned to combat duty. The Prinz Eugen (fourth warship to wear that name) was the third and last heavy cruiser commissioned by the Kriegsmarine.She acquired notoriety on her first war mission in May 1941, during the Atlantic sortie with the Bismarck in which the Hood was sunk and the Prince of Wales damaged. [67] On 13 April, 34 Lancaster bombers attacked the two ships while in port. The British failed to penetrate the Luftwaffe fighter shield, and all six Swordfish were destroyed. [25] Upon entering the Strait, both ships activated their FuMO radar detection equipment sets. Unfortunately, there was a leak in the hull, and radioactivity prevented anyone from repairing the hull. The wreck remains partially visible above the water approximately two miles northwest of Bucholz Army Airfield, on the edge of Enubuj. Upon returning to active service, the ship spent several months training officer cadets in the Baltic before serving as artillery support for the retreating German Army on the Eastern Front. She is one of the strongest ships in her tier. [5], The ship's primary armament was eight 20.3 cm (8.0 in) SK L/60 guns mounted in four twin turrets, placed in superfiring pairs forward and aft. 0 Comments. Several Motor Torpedo Boats then attacked the ship, but Prinz Eugen's destroyer escorts drove the vessels off before they could launch their torpedoes. After examining the ship in the United States, the US Navy assigned the cruiser to the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll. [79] American interest in magnetic amplifier technology increased again after findings in investigations of the fire control system of Prinz Eugen. ... and she becomes a radioactive Eugen-zilla. … YOU DO NOT WANT THIS. Lieutenant Commander Tim Emge, the officer responsible for the salvage operation, stated that "There are no longer active leaks...the remaining oil is enclosed in a few internal tanks without leakage and encased by layered protection. At 16:43, Prinz Eugen encountered five British destroyers: Campbell, Vivacious, Mackay, Whitshed, and Worcester. Prinz Eugen (German pronunciation: [ˈpʁɪnts ɔʏˈɡeːn]) was an Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser, the third of a class of five vessels. [76] The cruiser was commissioned into the US Navy as the unclassified miscellaneous vessel USS Prinz Eugen with the hull number IX-300. Sailors scrubbing down the German cruiser Prinz Eugen with brushes, water, soap, and lye. Bismarck turned around to face Wake-Walker's formation, forcing Suffolk to turn away at high speed. Her stern was destroyed by a torpedo from HMS Trident on February 23, 1942. 24 talking about this. At 05:07 that morning, hydrophone operators aboard Prinz Eugen detected a pair of unidentified vessels approaching the German formation at a range of 20 nmi (37 km; 23 mi), reporting "Noise of two fast-moving turbine ships at 280° relative bearing!". [22] At 19:30 on 21 May, Prinz Eugen, Bismarck, and the three escorting destroyers left port. In addition, Hitler saw the Norwegian theater as the "zone of destiny", so he ordered the three ships' return to Germany in early 1942 so they could be deployed there. Another battleship, King George V or Renown, turned away damaged. A raked funnel cap was also installed. Having survived the atomic blasts, Prinz Eugen was towed to Kwajalein Atoll, where she ultimately capsized and sank in December 1946. [21], While in Bergen, Prinz Eugen took on 764 t (752 long tons; 842 short tons) of fuel; Bismarck inexplicably failed to similarly refuel. [88] The US Navy announced that the work had been completed by 15 October 2018; the project had extracted approximately 250,000 US gallons (950,000 l; 210,000 imp gal) of fuel oil, which amounted to 97 percent of the fuel remaining aboard the wreck. And for anyone interested please do join our official discord server! We are a nonprofit group who doesn’t seek to gain money or fame for this plan, it’s just our love for naval history and for the heavy cruiser USS/KMS Prinz Eugen. At 19:22, hydrophone and radar operators aboard the German warships detected the cruiser HMS Suffolk at a range of approximately 12,500 m (41,000 ft). Prinz Eugen was then assigned to defend Norwegian waters, along with battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. While en route to Kiel, the ship was attacked by a British force of 19 Bristol Blenheim bombers and 27 Bristol Beaufort torpedo bombers commanded by Wing Commander Mervyn Williams, though the aircraft failed to hit the ship. Twice in January Prinz Eugen attempted to steam to Norway with Scharnhorst, but both attempts were broken off after British surveillance aircraft spotted the two ships. [12] The two ships were escorted by three destroyers—Hans Lody, Z16 Friedrich Eckoldt, and Z23—and a flotilla of minesweepers. [54] The torpedo boats were led by Kapitän zur See Erich Bey, aboard the destroyer Z29. Once the pride of the German Navy, this 700 foot long heavy cruiser was used by the U.S. as a test target for not one but two atom bombs at Bikini atoll. [20] At 7:00 on the 21st, the Germans spotted four unidentified aircraft that quickly departed. The ship's stern, including her propeller assemblies, remains visible above the surface of the water. The stern similarly rose upward as water rushed into the ripped-open compartments. Laid down April 23, 1936. For anymore questions please join the link below. Yep, very sketchy. Prinz Eugen was moored about 1,200 yards (1,100 m) from the epicenter of both blasts and was only lightly damaged by them; the Able blast only bent her foremast and broke the top of her main mast. ! 127 comments. By 06:30, they had passed Cherbourg, at which point they were joined by a flotilla of torpedo boats. On July 25 it was bombed again with an underwater detonation of a second atomic bomb. The Prinz Eugen can be seen on the right side of the photo above. This ship was exposed to and impregnated with radioactive isotopes. [12] Admirals Erich Raeder and Günther Lütjens discussed the possibility of delaying the operation further, in the hopes that repairs to the battleship Scharnhorst would be completed or Bismarck's sistership Tirpitz would complete trials in time for the ships to join Prinz Eugen and Bismarck. My grandfather was the chief engineering officer on the ship (USS Conserver) that towed Prinz Eugen to the spot where she sank. The three lots were then drawn lottery style from his hat with the British and Soviet representatives drawing the lots for other ships and Graubart being left with the lot for Prinz Eugen. Actually the USS Prinz Eugen was the furthest vessel in the Baker shot target array and remained afloat five months after the nuclear blast, but was too radioactive to permit crews to repair hull leaks sustained in the blast and … Prinz Eugen was a Hipper class cruiser, launched in 1938 and … Built by Krupp Germania shipyard in Kiel. Under the command of Kapitän zur See (KzS—Captain at Sea) Helmuth Brinkmann, the ship steamed to Gotenhafen, where the crew readied her for her Atlantic sortie. She suffered no significant structural damage from the explosions but was thoroughly contaminated with Prinz Eugen was at this time under the command of KzS Hans-Jürgen Reinicke; throughout June she steamed in the eastern Baltic, northwest of the island of Utö as a show of force during the German withdrawal from Finland. She fired her main battery at them and scored several hits on Worcester, but she was forced to maneuver erratically to avoid their torpedoes. This thread is archived. USS Prinz Eugen was examined and tested and eventually sailed into the south Pacific to become the first German warship to be sunk by a nuclear explosion. Prinz Eugen very similar to her sister ship in the tech tree — Admiral Hipper. (R/Day). [78] Her main battery gun turrets fell out of their barbettes when the ship rolled over. [64] The cause of the collision was heavy fog. The same day more engine problems showed up, including trouble with the port engine turbine, the cooling of the middle engine and problems with the starboard screw, reducing her maximum speed to 28 knots. She was the third sister to Admiral Hipper, and was named after Prince Eugene of Savoy. [6] In early 1941, the ship's artillery crews conducted gunnery training. After putting into occupied France and undergoing repairs, the ship participated in Operation Cerberus, a daring daylight dash through the English Channel back to Germany. [67][68] Four destroyers and two torpedo boats supported the action, along with Prinz Eugen's Ar 196 floatplanes; the cruiser fired a total of 265 shells from her main battery. Lütjens ordered his ships' crews to battle stations. The attack killed 60 men and wounded more than 40 others. If you want a German ship that actually mixed it up with enemy ships on multiple occassions, Admiral Hipper is the one to look at. Bananas are more radioactive than .004 mR/hr, The Archeology of the Atomic Bomb: A Submerged Cultural Resources Assessment of the Sunken Fleet of Operation Crossroads at Bikini and Kwajalein Atoll Lagoons (nps.gov). [75] Her US commander, Captain Arthur H. Graubart, recounted later how the British, Soviet and US representatives in the Control Commission all claimed the ship and how in the end the various large prizes were divided in three lots, Prinz Eugen being one of them. Shortly after 12:00, the flotilla reached Bergen and anchored at Grimstadfjord. Jonathan joins historian Mark Miller on a trip to explore this mysterious shipwreck. The biggest problem is that it is a rusted hulk with likely very little structural integrity. [47] On 28 May Prinz Eugen refuelled from the tanker Esso Hamburg. The ship then returned to Gotenhafen, before escorting a convoy of ships evacuating German soldiers from Finland. At this time, Admiral Raeder finally informed Hitler of the operation, who reluctantly allowed it to continue as planned. Basic characteristics. Allocated to the United States, the ship briefly served as USS Prinz Eugen (IX-300), having some equipment stripped off for study and then being expended as an atomic bomb target.. Why don't you try to get a vehicle out of Chernobyl?? [4] Her keel was laid down on 23 April 1936,[6] under construction number 564 and the contract name Kreuzer J. Prinz Eugen var en svær tysk krydser bygget på Germania-værftet i Kiel.Kølstrakt 1936 og færdigbygget 1940.Deltog i operation "Rheinübung" (Bismarcks togt), som endte med sænkningen af dette slagskib i 1941.Overgav sig i Københavns havn maj 1945.Blev sejlet til USA og sænket i a-bombetest i 1946 på Kwajalein-atollen.. Foruden Prinz Eugen bestod Admiral Hipper-klassen af … The length of 60, The British were unaware that the German ships had reversed positions while in the Denmark Strait. [60] The torpedo struck the ship in the stern, killing fifty men, causing serious damage, and rendering the ship unmaneuverable. In February 1942, Prinz Eugen was deployed to Norway, although her time stationed there was curtailed when she was torpedoed by the British submarine Trident days after arriving in Norwegian waters. Hello to anyone who is reading this and is interested in our project! The action diverted British attention and permitted Prinz Eugen to slip away. [36], After a few more minutes, during which Prince of Wales scored three hits on Bismarck, the damaged British battleship withdrew. On 11 and 12 October, she fired in support of German troops in Memel. [67] Prinz Eugen was taken to Gotenhafen, where repairs were effected within a month. The problem though was that everyone knew that Prinz Eugen was undamaged as her arrival in Denmark was well documented by the media. In 1935, Germany signed the Anglo–German Naval Agreement with Great Britain, which provided a legal basis for German naval rearmament; the treaty specified that Germany would be able to build five 10,000-long-ton (10,000 t) "treaty cruisers". [12], On 23 April, while passing through the Fehmarn Belt en route to Kiel,[13] Prinz Eugen detonated a magnetic mine dropped by British aircraft. The place is paradise.... The concussion from the 38 cm guns disabled Bismarck's FuMo 23 radar set; this prompted Lütjens to order Prinz Eugen to take station ahead so she could use her functioning radar to scout for the formation. Prince of Wales fired twelve salvos at Bismarck, which responded with nine salvos, none of which hit. The heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen entered service in 1940. I'm calling [edited]. "[16] The Oberkommando der Marine (OKM—Naval High Command) was not concerned about the security risk posed by Gotland, though Lütjens believed operational security had been lost. Other than that, they did not bother with anything else. For nine months, she cruised the Baltic training cadets. [41], With the weather worsening, Lütjens attempted to detach Prinz Eugen at 16:40. This is why you might get safe readings on the surface. [48] The screw problems could only be checked and repaired in a dock and thus Brest, with its large docks and repair facilities, was chosen as destination. [60] Nevertheless, Prinz Eugen arrived in Brunsbüttel on the morning of 13 February, completely undamaged[56] but suffering the only casualty in all three big ships, killed by aircraft gunfire. [37] Lütjens firmly rejected the request, and instead ordered Bismarck and Prinz Eugen to head for the open waters of the North Atlantic. On the mid's of the war she was lucky to survive a blow from torpedo of a British submarine in the Norwegian waters. For plan B it’s more risky but to rebuild the ship from everything that’s fell apart or in disrepair and safe fully and slowly move the ship to the nearest drydock for repairs. [84] The ship was towed to the Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific, where a small leak went unrepaired due to the radiation danger. Her keel was laid on 23 April 1936, under construction number 564 and cover name Kreuzer J. [a] Her anti-aircraft battery consisted of twelve 10.5 cm (4.1 in) L/65 guns, twelve 3.7 cm (1.5 in) guns, and eight 2 cm (0.79 in) guns. 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