It was taken as a token of victory, by my father, a sailor aboard HMS Devonshire, from the German heavy cruiser, the Prinz Eugen, following her surrender in May 1945. The Prinz Eugen was a ship of ...
Hood was a battlecruiser - one of a new breed of warships developed before the ... Bismarck, May 1941, taken from Prinz Eugen That allowed Germany to build a surface fleet of up to 35% of the ...