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LAUNCHING OF THE KRIEGSMARINE HEAVY CRUISER PRINZ EUGEN AUGUST 22, 1938 KIEL, GERMANY XD53735

This film shows the launching of the Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen on 22 August 1938 at the Germaniawerft shipyard in Kiel. The film starts (00:00) with images of the Kiel shipyard and the ship on the dry dock gangway, where crews remove tackle blocks, timbers and wooden scaffolding with hammers and grease the side of the ship. At (5:24) the gangway of the dry dock is also greased. At (5:51), the rear of the ship is seen, sans propellers. At (6:40), more grease is applied to the ways. At (7:24) a good look at the ship's rudder. At (8:00) the naval ensign flies above the ship as a small vessel carrying Adolph Hitler and various dignitaries approaches. At (11:59), Hitler acknowledges the crowd and salutes them. The launching ceremony was attended by the Governor (Reichsstatthalter) of the Ostmark, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, who made the christening speech. Also present at the launch were Adolf Hitler, the Regent of Hungary, Admiral Miklós Horthy (who had commanded the battleship SMS Prinz Eugen during the Great War), and his wife Magdolna Purgly, who performed the christening seen at (12:37). The narrowness of Kiel harbour necessitated the use of special cables and tugs to maneuver Prinz Eugen alongside the fitting-out wharf (14:30). Prince Eugen was originally laid down in April 1936, and entered service with the Kriegsmarine after the outbreak of war, in August 1940. The warship was named after Prince Eugene of Savoy, a distinguished 18th-century general in the service of the Holy Roman Empire. The vessel was armed with a main battery of eight 20.3 cm (8 in) guns and, although nominally under the 10,000-long-ton (10,160 t) limit set by the Anglo-German Naval Agreement, actually displaced over 16,000 long tons (16,257 t). Before the ship was even commissioned, Prinz Eugen was slightly damaged during a July 1 R.A.F. bombing raid on Kiel. After commissioning on August 1, the cruiser six months conducting training and sea trials in the Baltic. In early 1941, the ship conducted firing exercises for the first time, and then went into dry dock for final modifications before joining the newly commissioned battleship Bismarck for maneuvers in the Baltic Prinz Eugen saw action during Operation Rheinübung, an attempted breakout into the Atlantic Ocean with the battleship Bismarck in May 1941. The two ships destroyed the British battlecruiser Hood and moderately damaged the battleship Prince of Wales in the Battle of the Denmark Strait. Prinz Eugen was detached from Bismarck during the operation to raid Allied merchant shipping, but this was cut short due to engine troubles. After putting into occupied France and undergoing repairs, the ship participated in Operation Cerberus, a daring daylight dash through the English Channel back to Germany. In February 1942, Prinz Eugen was deployed to Norway, where she was torpedoed by the British submarine HMS Trident. The torpedo severely damaged the ship's stern, which necessitated repairs in Germany. Upon returning to active service, the ship spent several months training officer cadets in the Baltic before serving as artillery support for the retreating German Army on the Eastern Front. After the German collapse in May 1945, she was surrendered to the Royal Navy before being transferred to the US Navy as a war prize. The cruiser was assigned to the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll. Having survived the atomic blasts, Prinz Eugen was towed to Kwajalein Atoll, where she ultimately capsized and sank in December 1946. The wreck remains partially visible above the water on the edge of Enubuj. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD and 2k/4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com