The Prinz Eugen was an enlarged Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser which served with the Kriegsmarine of Germany during World War II. She was named after Prince Eugene of Savoy).

Prinz Eugen was the third ship of the Hipper-class heavy cruisers. Like her sister ships, Admiral Hipper and Blücher, she was built in the mid-1930s. During the planning and design stage, she was known as "Kreuzer J" (Cruiser J). Her keel was laid at the Krupp Germania shipyard in Kiel on 23 April 1936, and her full cost would be 104.5 million Reichsmark. Prinz Eugen was launched on 22 August 1938 and commissioned on 1 August 1940. Considered a "lucky ship", she survived to the end of the war, although she participated in only two major actions at sea. The ship sank following Operation Crossroads at Kwajalein Atoll in 1946.

Class and type: enlarged Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser
Displacement: 15,000 tons (empty)
18,400 tons (max)
Length: 212.5 m
Beam: 21.8 m
Draft: 7.2 m
Installed power: 136,000 shp
Speed: 33.5 knots (62.0 km/h)
Range: 7,200 miles at 20 knots
Complement: c. 1,600
Armament: 8 × 20.3 cm SK
12 × 10.5 cm L/65 C/33
17 × 4 cm FlaK
8 × 3.7 cm L/83
28 × 2 cm MG L/64
12 × 53.3 cm torpedoes
Armor: belt 80 mm, upper deck 30 mm, armour deck 30 mm, torpedo bulkhead
20mm, main turrets 160 - 70 mm, conning tower 150 mm
Aircraft carried: 3 × Arado Ar 196

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