"WWII German Ships" Topic

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22 Sep 2015 4:53 a.m. PST
by Editor in Chief Bill

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zenturtle	22 Sep 2015 3:16 a.m. PST
Why cant I find Pennant Numbers for WW2 German Ships ? Did they not have them like the Allies did or am I looking in the wrong place. Looking for the numbers for Graff Spee Bismarck Prinz Eugen Admiral Hipper Lutzow I know what class they are but not the pennant or ship number. please help
TheBeast	22 Sep 2015 8:24 a.m. PST
Worse than that, apparently neither Germany nor Imperial Japan used ship prefixes. IJN and KM(or DKM) were generated and used by the allies. Also, you might try proving me wrong by finding 'hull numbers' for German ships. Only ones I can find are the ones applied by the Allies after taking ownership. Doug
Sundance	22 Sep 2015 10:01 a.m. PST
I don't think the capital ships had hull numbers – they certainly weren't painted on the ship if they did. I can only recall seeing painted numbers on destroyers and smaller.
zenturtle	22 Sep 2015 10:13 a.m. PST
Thanks for the info guys.
Pontius	19 Nov 2015 5:11 a.m. PST
The only surface ships that used numbers were flotilla craft; destroyers, torpedo boats, submarines etc. Early in the war destroyers had a two digit number painted on the hull. The first was the Flotilla number the second the sequence number within the flotilla. Hence Z5, Paul Jacobi, carried 21 as she was the senior ship of the Second Flotilla. As far as I can remember these were not used after the Norwegain campaign of 1940.

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