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.

Capital ships

Pre-dreadnought battleships

Class	Displacement	Main battery	Speed	Ship	Image	Commis- sioned	Fate
	15,000 tons	4 × 11-in.	18 kn			Oct 1907	Scrapped between 1944 and 1946
	15,000 tons	4 × 11-in.	19.1 kn			Jul 1908	Scuttled, Mar 1945
	15,000 tons	4 × 11-in.	18.5 kn			May 1908	Mined off Swinemünde in May 1945

Modern battleships

Class	Displacement	Main battery	Speed	Ship	Image	Commis- sioned	War loss
	Bismarck: 41,700 tons Tirpitz: 42,900 tons	8 × 15-in.	30 kn			Aug 1940	Scuttled following incapacitating battle damage, May 1941
	Bismarck: 41,700 tons Tirpitz: 42,900 tons	8 × 15-in.	30 kn			Feb 1941	Sunk by air attack, Nov 1944
	32,100 tons	9 × 11-in.	31 kn			Jan 1939	Sunk by gunfire, Dec 1943
	32,100 tons	9 × 11-in.	31 kn			May 1938	Sunk as a blockship, Mar 1945

Cruisers

Heavy cruisers

Class	Displacement	Main battery	Speed	Ship	Image	Commis- sioned	War loss	Postwar
	14,290 tons	6 × 11-in.	28 kn	; renamed Lützow Jan 1940		Apr 1933	Air attack Baltic Sea, Apr 1945
	14,290 tons	6 × 11-in.	28 kn			Nov 1934	Air attack Kiel, Apr 1945
	14,290 tons	6 × 11-in.	28 kn			Jan 1936	Scuttled Montevideo, Dec 1939
	18,200 tons	8 × 8-in.	32 kn			Apr 1939	Scuttled Kiel, May 1945
	18,200 tons	8 × 8-in.	32 kn			Sep 1939	Sunk Drøbak Sound, Apr 1940
	18,200 tons	8 × 8-in.	32 kn			Aug 1940		Prize of US

Light cruisers

Class	Displacement	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
	7,700 tons	9 × 5.9-in.	32 kn			Nov 1929	Scuttled off Kristiansand, Apr 1940
	7,700 tons	9 × 5.9-in.	32 kn			Jan 1930	Air attack Wilhelmshaven, Mar 1945
	8,900 tons**	9 × 5.9-in.	32 kn			Oct 1931		Scuttled, Jun 1946
	8,900 tons**	9 × 5.9-in.	32 kn			Nov 1935		Prize of USSR

Destroyers and torpedo boats

Named destroyers

Class	Displace- ment	Torpedo load	Speed	Image	Ship	War loss	Postwar
Type 1934 destroyers	3,155 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z1 Leberecht Maass	Sunk, Feb 1940
Type 1934 destroyers	3,155 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z2 Georg Thiele	Beached, Apr 1940
Type 1934 destroyers	3,155 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z3 Max Schultz	Sunk w all hands, Feb 1940
Type 1934 destroyers	3,155 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z4 Richard Beitzen		Scrapped, 1949
Type 1934A destroyers	2,270 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z5 Paul Jakobi		Scrapped, 1954
Type 1934A destroyers	2,270 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z6 Theodor Riedel		Scrapped, 1958
Type 1934A destroyers	2,270 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z7 Hermann Schoemann	Scuttled, May 1942
Type 1934A destroyers	2,270 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z8 Bruno Heinemann	Mined, Jan 1942
Type 1934A destroyers	2,270 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z9 Wolfgang Zenker	Scuttled, Apr 1940
Type 1934A destroyers	2,270 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z10 Hans Lody		Scrapped, 1949
Type 1934A destroyers	2,270 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z11 Bernd von Arnim	Scuttled, Apr 1940
Type 1934A destroyers	2,270 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z12 Erich Giese	Sunk, Apr 1940
Type 1934A destroyers	2,270 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z13 Erich Koellner	Scuttled, Apr 1940
Type 1934A destroyers	2,270 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z14 Friedrich Ihn		Scrapped, 1952
Type 1934A destroyers	2,270 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z15 Erich Steinbrinck		Scrapped, 1958
Type 1934A destroyers	2,270 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z16 Friedrich Eckoldt	Sunk, Dec 1942
Type 1936 destroyers	3,470 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z17 Diether von Roeder	Scuttled, Apr 1940
Type 1936 destroyers	3,470 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z18 Hans Lüdemann	Scuttled, Apr 1940
Type 1936 destroyers	3,470 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z19 Hermann Künne	Scuttled, Apr 1940
Type 1936 destroyers	3,470 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z20 Karl Galster		Scrapped, 1958
Type 1936 destroyers	3,470 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z21 Wilhelm Heidkamp	Sunk, Apr 1940
Type 1936 destroyers	3,470 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z22 Anton Schmitt	Sunk, Apr 1940

Numbered destroyers

Class	Displace- ment	Torpedo load	Speed	Image	Ship	War loss	Postwar
Type 1936A (Narvik) destroyers	2,657 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z23	Scuttled, Aug 1944
Type 1936A (Narvik) destroyers	2,657 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z24	Air attack, Aug 1944
Type 1936A (Narvik) destroyers	2,657 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z25		Prize of France
Type 1936A (Narvik) destroyers	2,657 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z26	Sunk, Mar 1942
Type 1936A (Narvik) destroyers	2,657 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z27	Sunk, Dec 1943
Type 1936A (Narvik) destroyers	2,657 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z28	Air attack, Mar 1945
Type 1936A (Narvik) destroyers	2,657 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z29		Scuttled, 1946
Type 1936A (Narvik) destroyers	2,657 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z30		Scrapped, 1948
Type 1936A (Mob)	2,657 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z31		Prize of France
Type 1936A (Mob)	2,657 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z32	Grounded, Jun 1944
Type 1936A (Mob)	2,657 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z33		Prize of USSR
Type 1936A (Mob)	2,657 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z34		Scuttled, 1946
Type 1936A (Mob)	2,657 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z37	Scuttled, Aug 1944
Type 1936A (Mob)	2,657 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z38		Prize of UK
Type 1936A (Mob)	2,657 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn		Z39		Prize of US
Type 1936B destroyer	3,542 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn	No image available		Mined, Dec 1944
Type 1936B destroyer	3,542 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn	No image available		Mined, Dec 1944
Type 1936B destroyer	3,542 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn	No image available		Scuttled, May 1945
Type 1936B destroyer	3,542 tons	8 × 21-in.	36 kn	No image available			Scrapped, 1946
Type 1936C destroyer	3,625 tons	8 × 21-in.	37.5 kn	No image available		Blown up, 1945
Type 1936C destroyer	3,625 tons	8 × 21-in.	37.5 kn	No image available		Blown up, 1945

Torpedo boats

Auxiliary cruisers

Mine warfare craft

Minelayers

1935
1936
1941
1934
1939
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 – R16R17 class 1934
* R17 – R24R25 class 1938
* R25 – R40R41 class 1939
* R41 – R129R130 class 1940
* R130 – R150R151 class 1940
* R151 – R217R218 class 1942
* R218 – R300R301 class 1942
* R301 – ''R312''

Mine hunters

KM1 – ''KM36''

Small craft

S-boats

S1 class

* S1 – S25S26 class
* S26 – S29S30 class
* S30 – S37S38 class
* S38 – S60S38b class
* S61 – S99S100 class
* S100 – S150S151 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
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* and
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* and
* and
* and
* through
Type VIIC 41
* through
* through
* and
* and
* through
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* 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

* 138 commissioned
Hecht
* 53 commissioned
Biber
* 324 commissionedMolch
* 393 commissionedDelphin
* 3 commissionedSeeteufel
* 1 commissionedSchwertwal
* 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
, 1923

Artillery training ships

1933
1934

Torpedo training ships

, 1942

Radio-controlled targets

*, 1900
*, 1898

Sail training ships

Aviso

Grille, 1934

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

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WBS 6)

Fleet Tenders

Saar
HelaTsingtauAdolf LüderitzCarl PetersOtto WünscheWaldemar Kophamel
''Wilhelm Bauer''

Patrol boats

Many vessels were requisitioned for use as vorpostenboote during the war.

Icebreakers

CastorEisbärEisvogel

''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
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.
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, 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.
KB Dalmacija was a WW1 Imperial Germany light cruiser, sold to Yugoslavia in 1925, captured by Italy in 1941, then by Germany following the Italian Armistice in 1943 and renamed Niobe. She was sunk by British torpedo boats.
KB Dubrovnik was captured first by Italy in 1941, 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 in 1941, 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 Orjen-class torpedo boat were captured first by Italy in 1941, 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 1936CZerstörer 1938A/AcZerstörer 1938BZerstörer 1942: Z51 launched 1944, but bombed and never completedZerstörer 1944Zerstörer 1945

''Spähkreuzer''

Torpedo boats

Flottentorpedoboot 1940 Flottentorpedoboot 1941 Flottentorpedoboot 1944
A multitude of other ships also remained unfinished by the end of the war: escorts, gunboats, landing craft, fleet tenders, AA batteries, training ships, auxiliary ships, patrol boats, minelayers, mine hunters, fast torpedo attack boats and more.