Admiral Hipper was the lead ship of the Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruisers, serving with Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. Laid down at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg on 6 July 1935 and commissioned on 29 April 1939, she was named after Admiral Franz von Hipper, a prominent German naval commander in World War I.
Displacement: 16,170 t (normal), 18,500 t (full load) Length: 202.8 m (665 ft 4 in) Speed: 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph) Armament: 8 \xd7 20.3 cm (8 in) guns, 12 \xd7 10.5 cm guns, 12 \xd7 3.7 cm anti-aircraft guns, 8 \xd7 2 cm guns, and 12 \xd7 53.3 cm torpedo tubes Armor: Belt 70–80 mm, deck 20–50 mm, turret faces 105 mm Complement: 42 officers and 1,340 enlisted crew She participated in key operations including Operation Weser\xfcbung (invasion of Norway), where she sank the British destroyer HMS Glowworm in a collision, and conducted Atlantic raiding missions against Allied convoys. In December 1942, she took part in the Battle of the Barents Sea, where she was damaged by British cruisers.
Fate: Sunk by RAF bombing on 9 April 1945 while in drydock at Kiel. She was scuttled on 3 May 1945 and later raised and scrapped between 1948 and 1952.
The Admiral Hipper-class included five ships, but only Admiral Hipper, Bl\xfccher, and Prinz Eugen were completed; Seydlitz was converted into an aircraft carrier (uncompleted), and L\xfctzow was sold to the Soviet Union in 1940.