Prinz Eugen was detached from Bismarck during the operation to raid Allied merchant shipping, but this was cut short due to engine troubles. 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 saw action during Operation Rheinübung, an attempted breakout into the Atlantic Ocean with the battleship Bismarck in May 1941. She was armed with a main battery of eight 20.3 cm guns and, although nominally under the 10,000-long-ton limit set by the Anglo-German Naval Agreement, actually displaced over 16,000 long tons. She was named after Prince Eugene of Savoy, an 18th-century general in the service of Austria. The ship was laid down in April 1936, launched in August 1938, and entered service after the outbreak of war, in August 1940. She served with Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. Prinz Eugen was an Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser, the third of a class of five vessels.
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