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.

Torpedo boats

 * Torpedoboot 1923 ("Raubvogel") (900 tons, 3 × 105 mm guns)
 * GERMAN TORPEDO BOAT Möwe
 * GERMAN TORPEDO BOAT Falke
 * GERMAN TORPEDO BOAT Greif
 * GERMAN TORPEDO BOAT Kondor
 * GERMAN TORPEDO BOAT Albatros
 * GERMAN TORPEDO BOAT Seeadler
 * Torpedoboot 1924 ("Raubtier") (950 tons, 3 × 105 mm guns)
 * GERMAN TORPEDO BOAT Wolf
 * GERMAN TORPEDO BOAT Iltis
 * GERMAN TORPEDO BOAT Jaguar
 * GERMAN TORPEDO BOAT Leopard
 * GERMAN TORPEDO BOAT Luchs
 * GERMAN TORPEDO BOAT Tiger
 * Torpedoboot 1935 (1,090 tons, 1 × 105 mm gun)
 * GERMAN TORPEDO BOAT T1 through GERMAN TORPEDO BOAT T12
 * Torpedoboot 1937 (1,150 tons, 1 × 105 mm gun)
 * GERMAN TORPEDO BOAT T13 through GERMAN TORPEDO BOAT T21
 * Flottentorpedoboot 1939 (Elbing) (1,750 tons, 4 × 105 mm guns)
 * GERMAN TORPEDO BOAT T22 through GERMAN TORPEDO BOAT T36

Auxiliary cruisers

 * GERMAN AUXILIARY CRUISER Atlantis
 * GERMAN AUXILIARY CRUISER Coronel
 * GERMAN AUXILIARY CRUISER Hansa
 * GERMAN AUXILIARY CRUISER Komet
 * GERMAN AUXILIARY CRUISER Kormoran
 * GERMAN AUXILIARY CRUISER Michel
 * GERMAN AUXILIARY CRUISER Orion
 * GERMAN AUXILIARY CRUISER Pinguin
 * GERMAN AUXILIARY CRUISER Stier
 * GERMAN AUXILIARY CRUISER Thor
 * GERMAN AUXILIARY CRUISER Widder

Minelayers

 * GERMAN MINELAYER Tannenberg 1935 (5,500 tons, 3 × 150 mm guns, 460 mines)
 * GERMAN MINELAYER Brandenburg 1936 (3,900 tons, 3 × 105 mm guns, 250 mines)
 * GERMAN MINELAYER Lothringen 1941 (2,000 tons, 2 × 88 mm guns, 200 mines)
 * GERMAN MINELAYER Niedersachsen 1934 (1,800 tons, 2 × 105 mm guns, 260 mines)
 * GERMAN MINELAYER Hansestadt Danzig 1939 (2,431 tons, 2 × 88 mm guns, 360 mines)
 * GERMAN MINELAYER Romania 1942 (3,152 tons, 4 x 20 mm guns, 80 mines)
 * GERMAN MINELAYER Drache 1924 (1,800 tons, 2 × 88 mm guns, 120 mines)
 * GERMAN MINELAYER Brummer 1940 (3 × 10.5 cm guns, 2 × 3.7 cm anti-aircraft guns, 10 × 2 cm anti-aircraft guns, 4 × 46 cm torpedo tubes, 280 mines)
 * GERMAN MINELAYER Oldenburg 1934 (1,200 tons, 2 × 88 mm guns, 145 mines)
 * GERMAN MINELAYER Kamerun 1939 (370 tons, 2 × 88 mm guns, 100 mines)
 * GERMAN MINELAYER Togo 1939 (370 tons, 2 × 88 mm guns, 100 mines)
 * GERMAN MINELAYER Kiebitz 1943

Sperrbrecher

 * Sperrbrecher 1 – Sperrbrecher 100 (5,000 tons, 2 × 88 mm guns)

Minesweeper

 * M1935 class (875 tons, 2 × 105 mm guns)
 * M1 – M69
 * M1940 class (775 tons, 1 × 105 mm gun)
 * M70 – M196
 * M1943 class (825 tons, 2 × 105 mm guns)
 * M197 – M214

R Boats

 * R1 class 1929 (60 tons, 1 × 37 mm gun, 6 mines)
 * R1 – R16
 * R17 class 1934 (115 tons, 1 × 37 mm gun, 12 mines)
 * R17 – R24
 * R25 class 1938 (110 tons, 1 × 37 mm gun, 12 mines)
 * R25 – R40
 * R41 class 1939 (125 tons, 1 × 37 mm gun, 12 mines)
 * R41 – R129
 * R130 class 1940 (150 tons, 1 × 37 mm gun, 12 mines)
 * R130 – R150
 * R151 class 1940 (125 tons, 1 × 37 mm gun, 12 mines)
 * R151 – R217
 * R218 class 1942 (140 tons, 1 × 37 mm gun, 16 mines)
 * R218 – R300
 * R301 class 1942 (160 tons, 1 × 88 mm gun, 16 mines, 2 torpedo tubes)
 * R301 – R312

Mine hunters

 * KM1 – KM36

S-boats

 * S1 class (50 tons, 1 × 20 mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
 * S1 – S25
 * S26 class (75 tons, 1 × 20 mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
 * S26 – S29
 * S30 class (80 tons, 1 × 20 mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
 * S30 – S37
 * S38 class (80 tons, 1 × 20 mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
 * S38 – S60
 * S38b class (90 tons, 2 × 20 mm guns, 2 torpedo tubes)
 * S61 – S99
 * S100 class (100 tons, 1 × 37 mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
 * S100 – S150
 * S151 class (100 tons, 1 × 37 mm gun, 2 torpedo tubes)
 * S151 – S205

Training submarines

 * Type I
 * GS U-25 (1936) and GS U-26 (1936)

Coastal submarines

 * Type IIA
 * GS U-1 (1935) through GS U-6 (1935)
 * Type IIB
 * GS U-7 (1935) through GS U-24 (1936)
 * GS U-120 (1940) and GS U-121 (1940)
 * Type IIC
 * GS U-56 (1938) through GS U-63 (1939)
 * Type IID
 * GS U-137 (1940) through GS U-152 (1940)
 * Type XVIIB
 * GS U-1405 through GS U-1407

Ocean-going submarines

 * Type VIIA
 * GS U-27 (1936) through GS U-36 (1936)
 * Type VIIB
 * GS U-45 (1938) through GS U-55 (1939)
 * GS U-73 (1940) through GS U-76 (1940)
 * GS U-83 (1941) through GS U-87 (1941)
 * GS U-99 (1940) through GS U-102 (1940)
 * Type VIIC
 * GS U-69 (1940) through GS U-72 (1940)
 * GS U-77 (1940) through GS U-82 (1941)
 * GS U-88 (1941) through GS U-98 (1940)
 * GS U-132 (1941) through GS U-136 (1941)
 * GS U-201 through GS U-212
 * GS U-221 through GS U-232
 * GS U-235 through GS U-291
 * GS U-301 through GS U-316
 * GS U-331 through GS U-394
 * GS U-396 through GS U-458
 * GS U-465 through GS U-486
 * GS U-551 through GS U-683
 * GS U-701 through GS U-722
 * GS U-731 through GS U-768
 * GS U-771 through GS U-779
 * GS U-821 through GS U-822
 * GS U-825 and GS U-826
 * GS U-901 through GS U-907
 * GS U-921 through GS U-928
 * GS U-951 through GS U-994
 * GS U-1051 through GS U-1058
 * GS U-1101 and GS U-1102
 * GS U-1131 and GS U-1132
 * GS U-1161 and GS U-1162
 * GS U-1191 through GS U-1210
 * Type VIIC 41
 * GS U-292 through GS U-300
 * GS U-317 through GS U-328
 * GS U-827 and GS U-828
 * GS U-929 and GS U-930
 * GS U-995 through GS U-1010
 * GS U-1013 through GS U-1025
 * GS U-1063 through GS U-1065
 * GS U-1103 through GS U-1110
 * GS U-1163 through GS U-1172
 * GS U-1271 through GS U-1279
 * GS U-1301 through GS U-1308
 * Type IXA
 * GS U-37 (1938) through GS U-44 (1939)
 * Type IXB
 * GS U-64 (1939) and GS U-65 (1940)
 * GS U-103 (1940) through GS U-111 (1940)
 * GS U-122 (1939) through GS U-124 (1940)
 * Type IXC
 * GS U-66 (1940) through GS U-68 (1940)
 * GS U-125 (1940) through GS U-131 (1941)
 * GS U-153 (1941) through GS U-166 (1941)
 * GS U-171 through GS U-176
 * GS U-501 through GS U-524
 * Type IXC 40
 * GS U-167 (1942) through GS U-170
 * GS U-183 through GS U-194
 * GS U-525 through GS U-550
 * GS U-801 through GS U-806
 * GS U-841 through GS U-846
 * GS U-853 through GS U-858
 * GS U-877 through U-882
 * U-885 through GS U-899
 * GS U-1221 through GS U-1235
 * Type IXD
 * GS U-177 through GS U-182
 * GS U-195 through GS U-200
 * GS U-847 through GS U-852
 * GS U-859 through GS U-864
 * GS U-871 through GS U-876

Minelaying submarines

 * Type VIID
 * GS U-213 through GS U-218
 * Type XB
 * GS U-116 (1941) through GS U-119 (1942)

Supply submarines

 * Type VIIF
 * GS U-1059 through GS U-1062
 * Type IXD /42
 * GS U-883 and GS U-884
 * Type XB
 * GS U-219 and GS U-220
 * GS U-233 and GS U-234
 * Type XIV
 * GS U-459 through GS U-464
 * GS U-487 through GS U-490

Electric boats

 * Type XXI
 * GS U-2501 through GS U-2531
 * GS U-2533 through GS U-2548
 * GS U-2551 and GS U-2552
 * GS U-3001 through GS U-3044
 * GS U-3501 through GS U-3530
 * Type XXIII
 * GS U-2321 through GS U-2371
 * GS U-4701 through GS U-4707
 * GS U-4709 through GS U-4712

Midget submarines

 * Seehund (17 tons, 2 × torpedoes)
 * 138 commissioned
 * Hecht (Training)
 * 53 commissioned
 * Biber (6.5 tons, 2 × torpedoes)
 * 324 commissioned
 * Molch (11 tons, 2 × torpedoes)
 * 393 commissioned
 * Delphin (Prototype)
 * 3 commissioned
 * Seeteufel (Prototype)
 * 1 commissioned
 * Schwertwal (Prototype)
 * 1 commissioned

Human torpedoes

 * Neger (1 × torpedo)
 * 200 commissioned
 * Marder (3 tons, 1 × torpedo)
 * 500 commissioned
 * Hai (Prototype)
 * 1 commissioned

Troop ships

 * SS Cap Arcona (1927), 1927
 * SS Deutschland (1923), 1923
 * MV Goya, 1940
 * SS General von Steuben, 1923
 * MV Wilhelm Gustloff, 1937
 * SS Hamburg (1925), 1926
 * SS Pretoria (1936), 1936
 * SS Albert Ballin/SS Hansa (1923), 1923

Artillery training ships

 * GERMAN TRAINING SHIP Bremse 1933 (1,800 tons, 4 × 127 mm guns)
 * GERMAN TRAINING SHIP Brummer 1934 (3,000 tons, 8 × 105 mm guns, 480 mines)

Torpedo training ships

 * GERMAN TRAINING SHIP Hugo Zeye, 1942

Radio-controlled targets

 * Braunschweig-class battleship
 * SMS Hessen, 1900
 * Wittelsbach-class battleship
 * SMS Zähringen, 1898

Sail training ships

 * Niobe, 1913
 * Gorch Fock, 1933 (Russian training ship Tovarishch)
 * Horst Wessel, 1936 (US Coast Guard Ship Eagle)
 * Albert Leo Schlageter, 1937 (Portuguese training ship Sagres)

Aviso

 * Grille, 1934

Floating anti-aircraft batteries

 * SMS Arcona (1902) (Gazelle-class cruiser light cruiser)
 * SMS Medusa (Gazelle class light cruiser)
 * GERMAN ANTI-AIRCRAFT CRUISER Ariadne (ex-Dutch HNLMS Hertog Hendrik coastal defense ship)
 * GERMAN ANTI-AIRCRAFT CRUISER Niobe (ex-Dutch HNLMS Gelderland (1898) cruiser)
 * GERMAN ANTI-AIRCRAFT CRUISER Nymphe (ex-Norwegian HNOMS Tordenskjold coastal defense ship)
 * GERMAN ANTI-AIRCRAFT CRUISER Thetis (ex-Norwegian HNOMS Harald Haarfagre coastal defense ship)

Escort

 * F-class escort ship (700 tons, 2 × 105 mm guns)
 * F 1 – F 10
 * PA-class patrol ships (Germany) (925 tons, 1 × 105 mm gun)
 * PA 1 – PA 4

Gunboats

 * LS1 – LS12
 * The Following Gunboats were generally armed with one 5.9 inch, two 37mm (1×2) and six 20mm (6×1) 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

 * GERMAN SHIP Doggerbank

Weather ships

 * GERMAN WEATHER SHIP Adolf Vinnen (WBS 5)
 * GERMAN WEATHER SHIP August Wriedt (WBS 8)
 * GERMAN WEATHER SHIP Berlebek (WBS 7 / WBS 14)
 * GERMAN WEATHER SHIP Coburg (WBS 2 )
 * GERMAN WEATHER SHIP Externsteine (WBS 11)
 * GERMAN WEATHER SHIP Hermann / GERMAN WEATHER SHIP Sachsen (WBS 1)
 * GERMAN WEATHER SHIP Hessen (WBS 11 / WBS 8)
 * GERMAN WEATHER SHIP Hinrich Freese (WBS 4)
 * GERMAN WEATHER SHIP Hoheweg (WBS 5)
 * GERMAN WEATHER SHIP Fritz Homann (WBS 3 / WBS 4)
 * GERMAN WEATHER SHIP Kehdingen WBS 6)
 * GERMAN WEATHER SHIP Carl J. Busch (WBS 3)
 * GERMAN WEATHER SHIP Lauenburg (WBS 3)
 * GERMAN WEATHER SHIP Leipzig
 * GERMAN WEATHER SHIP Merceditta (WBS 9)
 * GERMAN WEATHER SHIP Mob. FD 34 (WBS 10)
 * GERMAN WEATHER SHIP München (WBS 6)
 * GERMAN WEATHER SHIP Ostmark (WBS 5)
 * GERMAN WEATHER SHIP Sachsenwald (WBS 7)
 * GERMAN WEATHER SHIP Skudd 1 (WBS 10)
 * GERMAN WEATHER SHIP Star XV (WBS 10)
 * GERMAN WEATHER SHIP Teutoberger Wald (WBS 12)
 * GERMAN WEATHER SHIP Wuppertal (WBS 1)

Hospital ships

 * SS Berlin (1925)
 * SS Birka (1937)
 * SS Bordeaux (1912)
 * SS Fasan (1936)
 * SS Gradisca (1913)
 * SS Huxter (1924)
 * SS Lindau (1939)
 * MV Mars (1939)
 * SS Meteor (1904)
 * MV Robert Ley (1938)
 * SS Rostock (1922)
 * SS Rügen (1914)
 * MV Strassburg (1929)
 * SS Stuttgart (1923)
 * MV Wilhelm Gustloff

Fleet Tenders

 * Saar
 * Hela
 * Tsingtau
 * Adolf Lüderitz
 * Carl Peters
 * Otto Wünsche
 * Waldemar Kophamel
 * Wilhelm Bauer

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

Icebreakers

 * Castor
 * Eisbär
 * Eisvogel
 * Pollux

Captured foreign warships
A significant number of foreign warships were captured and recommissioned into the Kriegsmarine.
 * FRENCH BATTLESHIP Clemenceau, 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.
 * SOVIET BATTLESHIP Sovetskaya Ukraina, laid down 1938, captured 1941 (never completed)
 * 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.
 * HMS Seal (N37), captured 1940, taken into service as UB
 * The Danish training ship/coastal defense ship HDMS Niels Juel 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 Sleipner-class destroyers, HNOMS Gyller (1938), HNOMS Odin (1939), HNOMS Tor (1939), & HNOMS Balder (1939) were captured in 1940. All four ships saw service in the Kriegsmarine.
 * Four French Flower-class corvettes, 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 (the latter saw no service).
 * 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.
 * HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën (C802) and HNLMS De Ruyter (C801) light cruisers were captured in 1940 while still under construction. Renamed as KH1 and KH2 ("KH" means "Kreuzer Holland"), 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 (SMS Niobe), sold to Yugoslavia in 1925 (KB Dalmacija), captured by Italy in 1941 (RN Cattaro), 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 (RN Premuda), then by German following the Italian Armistice in 1943 (TA 32). She was scuttled in Genoa in 1945 following the Battle of the Ligurian Sea.
 * KB Beograd was captured first by Italy in 1941 (RN Sebenico), then by German following the Italian Armistice in 1943 (TA 43). 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 (KB Velebit, KB Dinara, KB Triglav and KB Rudnik) were captured first by Italy in 1941 (MS 42, MS 43, MS 44 and MS 46), then by German following the Italian Armistice in 1943 (S 601, S 602, S 603 and S 604). All four were scuttled in 1944.
 * KB YUGOSLAV SEAPLANE TENDER Zmaj 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.

Aircraft carriers

 * Graf Zeppelin class
 * GERMAN AIRCRAFT CARRIER Graf Zeppelin, Laid down 1936, commissioned 1938 (85% complete at start of war, never completed)*
 * Flugzeugträger B, Laid Down 1938, never launched, broken up 1940*

Heavy cruisers

 * GERMAN CRUISER Seydlitz, (uncompleted, intended for conversion into light aircraft carrier, but never completed)
 * GERMAN CRUISER Lützow, (sold uncompleted to Soviet Union in 1940)

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 (Never completed)
 * Flottentorpedoboot 1941 (Never completed)
 * Flottentorpedoboot 1944 (Never completed)

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 (E-Boats) and more.