Prince Eugen
Heavy Cruiser

She was named after Prince Eugene of Savoy (Prinz Eugen in German).

Prinz Eugen was a Hipper class heavy cruiser: like her sister ships, Admiral Hipper and Blucher, she was built in the mid-1930s. Her keel was laid at the Krupp Germania shipyard in Kiel on April 23, 1936, and she was launched on August 22, 1938, and commissioned on August 1, 1940. Considered a "lucky ship", she survived to the end of the war although she participated in only one major action at sea.