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Prinz Eugen 1941   Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Таллин [Tallin] (ex-Петропавловск [Petropavlovsk], ex-Lützow)		941	Deschimag, Bremen, Germany // 189 Ordzhonikidze Yd, Leningrad	2.8.1937	1.7.1939	---	suspended 9.1941

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	14240
Displacement full, t	19800
Length, m	199.5 wl 212.5 oa
Breadth, m	21.8
Draught, m	6.60 normal 7.20 max
No of shafts	3
Machinery	3 sets Deschimag geared steam turbines, 9 Wagner boilers
Power, h. p.	132000
Max speed, kts	32
Fuel, t	oil 3250
Endurance, nm(kts)	6800(20)
Armour, mm	belt: 80 - 40, bulkheads: 80, deck: 30 + (50 - 30), anti-torpedo bulkhead: 20, turrets: 160 - 50, barbettes: 80, CT: 150 - 50
Armament	4 x 2 - 203/57 SK C/34, 6 x 2 - 105/60 SK C/33, 6 x 2 - 37/80 SK C/30, 10 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 4 x 3 - 533 TT (22), 1 catapult, 4 seaplanes (Ar 196)
Complement	1600

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Project history

Former German heavy cruiser Lützow of Admiral Hipper class was sold 11.2.1940 to the USSR. 31.5.1940 she was towed off to Leningrad for completion which has not been finished. 25.9.1940 ships was renamed Petropavlovsk. To the Great Patriotic War beginning 2 main gun turrets and a part of antiaircraft artillery were mounted only.. She was used as non-self-propelled floating battery from September 1941 till 1944 with 2 x 2 - 203/60, 1 x 2 - 37/83 and 8 x 1 - 20/65 guns.     17.9.1941 Petropavlovsk was sunk by German field artillery at Leningrad; in September, 1942 she was raised; 1.9.1944 renamed Tallin, 11.3.1953 reclassified to training hulk and renamed Dnepr; 27.12.1956 to barrack hulk PKZ-112; 3.4.1958 she was written off from fleet list and broken up in 1959-1960.

Ship protection

12.5°-inclined main belt between inner barbettes was 3.75m high and 80mm thick. It was closed by 80mm bulkheads. Thickness of fore 3.85m high belt was 40mm, decreasing to 20mm fwd from "A" barbette; 2.75m-high belt with 70mm thickness protected aft part of ship and was closed by 70mm aft bulkhead of steering gear compartment. 30mm main deck was connected with lower edge of main belt by 50mm slopes, thickness of this deck increased to 40mm outside citadel. There was 30mm upper deck. Turrets had 160mm faces (with 105mm inclined parts), 70mm sides (with 80mm inclined parts) and 80mm roofs, barbettes had 80mm armor. CT had 150mm sides and 50mm roof. Underwater protection consisted of bulges and 20mm longitudinal bulkhead.