List of Kriegsmarine ships
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.
Major warships
Battleships
- *, Laid down, 1936, Commissioned 1939, Completed 1940. Sunk in battle 1941
- *, Laid down 1936, Commissioned 1939 Completed 1941. Sunk by bombing 1944
- *, Laid down 1934, Commissioned 1936, Completed January 1939. Sunk in battle 1943
- *, Laid down 1934, Commissioned 1936, Completed May 1938. Out of combat service from 1942. Sunk as blockship 1945.
Pre-dreadnought battleships
- *, 1905. Decommissioned 1931. Used in explosive tests. Scrapped 1944-1946.
- *, 1906. Sunk by bombing, 1944.
- *, 1906. Mined and sunk, 1945.
Heavy cruisers
- *, Laid down 1935, Commissioned 1937, Completed 1939*, Scuttled 1945.
- *, Commissioned 1937. Sank in battle 1940.
- * Seydlitz, Laid down 1936, Not commisioned, Completed 1940*, Scuttled 1945
- *, Laid down 1936, Commissioned 1938, Completed 1940*, Sunk after Operation Crossroads 1946
- * , Laid Down, 1929, Commissioned 1931, Completed 1933, Disabled 1945, Raised and Sunk as Target 1947.
- *, Laid down 1931, Commissioned 1933, Completed 1934*, Sunk by Bombing 1945.
- *, Laid down 1932, Commissioned 1934, Scuttled 1939.
Light cruisers
- Emden class
- *, Laid down 1921, Commissioned 1925*, Scuttled 1945.
- *, Commissioned 1927. Sank 1940
- *, Commissioned 1927. Sank 1940
- *, Laid down 1926, Commissioned 1928, Completed 1930*, Sunk by Bombing 1945.
- *, laid down 1928, Commissioned 1929, Completed 1931*, Scuttled 1946.
- *, Laid down 1934, Commissioned 1935*, Given to Soviet Navy 1945 and renamed Admiral Makarov. Sold for Scrap 1960.
Destroyers and torpedo boats
Destroyers
- Type 1934
- *, 1937
- *, 1937
- *, 1937
- *, 1937
- Type 1934A
- *
- *
- *
- *
- *
- *
- *
- *
- *
- *
- *
- *
- Type 1936
- *
- *
- *
- *
- *
- *
- Type 1936A
- * through
- Type 1936A
- * through
- * through
- Type 1936B
- *
- *
- *
- *
- Type 1936C
- *
- *
Torpedo boats
- Torpedoboot 1923
- *
- *
- *
- *
- *
- *
- Torpedoboot 1924
- *
- *
- *
- *
- *
- *
- Torpedoboot 1935
- * through
- Torpedoboot 1937
- * through
- Flottentorpedoboot 1939
- * through
Auxiliary cruisers
Mine warfare craft
Minelayers
- 1935
- 1936
- 1941
- 1934
- 1942
- 1924
- 1940
- 1934
- 1939
- 1939
- 1943
''Sperrbrecher''
- Sperrbrecher 1 – Sperrbrecher 100
Minesweeper
- M1935 class
- * M1 – M69
- M1940 class
- * M70 – M196
- M1943 class
- * M197 – M214
R Boats
- R1 class 1929
- * R1 – R16
- R17 class 1934
- * R17 – R24
- R25 class 1938
- * R25 – R40
- R41 class 1939
- * R41 – R129
- R130 class 1940
- * R130 – R150
- R151 class 1940
- * R151 – R217
- R218 class 1942
- * R218 – R300
- R301 class 1942
- * R301 – R312
Mine hunters
- KM1 – KM36
Small craft
S-boats
- S1 class
- * S1 – S25
- S26 class
- * S26 – S29
- S30 class
- * S30 – S37
- S38 class
- * S38 – S60
- S38b class
- * S61 – S99
- S100 class
- * S100 – S150
- S151 class
- * 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
- * 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
- * 138 commissioned
- Hecht
- * 53 commissioned
- Biber
- * 324 commissioned
- Molch
- * 393 commissioned
- Delphin
- * 3 commissioned
- Seeteufel
- * 1 commissioned
- Schwertwal
- * 1 commissioned
Human torpedoes
- Neger
- * 200 commissioned
- Marder
- * 500 commissioned
- Hai
- * 1 commissioned
Auxiliary ships
Troop ships
- , 1927
- , 1923
- , 1940
- , 1923
- , 1937
- , 1926
- , 1936
- /, 1923
Artillery training ships
- 1933
- 1934
Torpedo training ships
- , 1942
Radio-controlled targets
- *, 1900
- *, 1898
Sail training ships
- Niobe, 1913
- Gorch Fock, 1933
- Horst Wessel, 1936
- Albert Leo Schlageter, 1937
Floating anti-aircraft batteries
Escort
- * F 1 – F 10
- * PA 1 – PA 4
Gunboats
- LS1 – LS12
- The Following Gunboats were generally armed with one 5.9 inch, two 37mm and six 20mm 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 Muller 399 tons Launched 1936
- Soemba
- Trompenberg
- West
- West Vlaanderen 346 tons Launched 1927
Blockade runners/Auxiliary minelayers
Weather ships
- /
- WBS 6)
Hospital ships
Patrol boats
- Kamerun
- KT1
- V 5506 Zick
- V 5519 Tarantel
- V 5908 Togo
- V 6105
Captured foreign warships
- , captured 1940, launched 1943
- Faà di Bruno, laid down 1915, captured 1943, commissioned as monitor Biber, surrendered in 1945 and broken up.
- , laid down 1938, captured 1941
- O 8, captured in 1940, taken into service as UD-1
- , captured 1940, taken into service as UB
- 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.
- 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 were captured while still under construction. Work was resumed to completed them, but halted following sabotage from the Dutch Resistance. Both ships were completed and commissioned into Dutch service in 1953.
- KB Dalmacija was captured first by Italy, then by Germany following the Italian Armistice in 1943. She was sunk by British torpedo boats.
- KB Dubrovnik was captured first by Italy, then by German following the Italian Armistice in 1943. She was scuttled in Genoa in 1945 following the Battle of the Ligurian Sea.
- KB Beograd was captured first by Italy, then by German following the Italian Armistice in 1943. She was sunk in Trieste, though sources vary of how so.
- KB T3 was captured first by Italy, then by German following the Italian Armistice in 1943. She was sunk by Allied aircraft in February 1945.
- Four Yugoslav s was captured first by Italy, then by German following the Italian Armistice in 1943. All four were scuttled in 1944.
- KB was captured in 1941 and used as a troop transport until her sinking in 1944.
- Yugoslav minelayer D2 was captured first by Italy, then by German following the Italian Armistice in 1943. She was sunk in 1944.
Unfinished Ships
Aircraft carriers
- Graf Zeppelin class
- *, Laid down 1936, commissioned 1938 *
- * Flugzeugträger B, Laid Down 1938, never launched, broken up 1940*
Heavy cruisers
- ,
- ,
Destroyers
- Zerstörer 1936C
- Zerstörer 1938A/Ac
- Zerstörer 1938B
- Zerstörer 1942: Z51 launched 1944, but bombed and never completed
- Zerstörer 1944
- Zerstörer 1945
- Spähkreuzer
Torpedo boats
- Flottentorpedoboot 1940
- Flottentorpedoboot 1941
- Flottentorpedoboot 1944