sxdjt@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (TABOR DEAN J) (09/24/90)
From: sxdjt@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (TABOR DEAN J) I just watched "Sink the Bismark" for the Nth time today, and a question that has been bugging me for quite a while finally got to be too much. What happened to the Prinz Eugen? I know he (not "she") made it to Brest, but after that...? *-------(-:-S-t-a-n-d-a-r-d---D-i-s-c-l-a-i-m-e-r---A-p-p-l-i-e-s-:-)-------* |Dean J. Tabor | University of Alaska Computer Network - Operations | |SXDJT@ALASKA.bitnet | Fairbanks, Alaska USA (no, I don't live in an igloo)| |=+=+=+=+=+=-It's not how fast you go, it's how well you go fast-=+=+=+=+=+=| *---------------------------------------------------------------------------*
mlfisher@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu (09/27/90)
From: mlfisher@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu In article <1990Sep24.001253.22628@cbnews.att.com>, sxdjt@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (TABOR DEAN J) writes: > > What happened to the Prinz Eugen? I know he (not "she") made it to Brest, but > after that...? He (German ships were male) was part of the famed Channel Dash with the Sharnhorst and G(never could spell it). PE survived the war and was destroyed in the test of the H-bomb at Bikini atoll. Mike
geoffm@EBay.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) (10/04/90)
From: geoffm@EBay.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) In article <1990Sep27.031417.6914@cbnews.att.com> mlfisher@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes: >In article <1990Sep24.001253.22628@cbnews.att.com>, sxdjt@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (TABOR DEAN J) writes: >> >> What happened to the Prinz Eugen? I know he (not "she") made it to Brest, but >> after that...? > >He (German ships were male) was part of the famed Channel Dash with the >Sharnhorst and G(never could spell it). PE survived the war and was destroyed >in the test of the H-bomb at Bikini atoll. The G(never could spell it) was the Gneisenau, the Scharnhorst's sister ship. The Prinz Eugen was indeed destroyed in the Bikini H-bomb test, but before its destruction it got a good going-over by U.S. Navy gunnery experts. The ship was renamed while temporarily a part of the U.S. Navy. I don't recall the name, but it was probably the name of a city in keeping with the custom of the time. [mod.note: according to M.J. Whitley's _German Cruisers of World War Two_, Prinz Eugen was placed in service in the US Navy in January, 1946 without being commissioned. She (sex change courtesy of the USN!) kept her name, but was designated 1X-300. After being damaged in tests Able and Baker, she began leaking badly and had to be grounded. She remains on a reef at Enubuj, Kwajalein. - Bill ] Geoff -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Geoff Miller + + + + + + + + Sun Microsystems geoffm@purplehaze.sun.com + + + + + + + + Milpitas, California -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-