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From: geoffm@EBay.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
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Subject: Re: The fate of the Prinz Eugen
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Date: 4 Oct 90 01:22:07 GMT
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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


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