An item reported that a German cruiser escorted by 3 destroyers and a torpedo boat passed the northward along the Norwegian coast near Bergen. It could be the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper (1) possible bound for Trondheim, Norway. The battleship Tirpitz (2) escorted by the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer (3) and a heavy Hipper-class cruiser (probably the damaged Prinz Eugen, see the summary dated 19 March No. 99) were on 20 May still berthed at Trondheim, Norway.(4)
Notes
1. Laid down by Blohm&Voss, Hamburg, Germany on 6 July 1935, launched on 6 February 1937, commissioned on 29 April 1939, scuttled at Kiel, Germany being heavy damaged during a British air attack on 3 May 1945, finally salvaged in July 1945 and broken up between 1948-1952. Of the Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruisers, preceded by the Deutschland-class heavy cruisers also known as pocket-battleships.
2. Laid down by Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven, Germany on 2 November 1936, launched on 1 April 1939, commissioned on 25 February 1941 and sunk by the Royal Air Force on 12 November 1944 at Tromsø, Norway, with her wreck broken up between 1948-1957. Of the Bismarck-class as answer on the French Richelieu-class battleships
3. Of the Deutschland-class panzerschiffe later classified as heavy cruisers preceded by the Admiral Hipper-class. Main armament 2x3-28cm/11”guns on fore and aft ship one turret. Laid down by Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven, Germany on 25 June 1931, launched on 1 April 1933, commissioned on 12 November 1934, sunk during an air attack at Kiel, Germany on 9 April 1945, partly broken up and the remains used of filling up the inner part of the dockyard.
4. Laid down by Germaniawerft, Kiel, Germany on 23 April 1936, launched on 22 August 1938, commissioned on 1 August 1940, decommissioned on 7 May 1945. surrendered to the British Royal Navy on 8 May 1945, handed over to the USA on 13 December 1945, commissioned on 5 January 1946, decommissioned on 29 August 1946, hull number IX-300 used in the Operations Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll, towed to the Kwajalein Atoll and sunk here on 22 December 1946. Of the Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruisers, preceded by the Deutschland-class heavy cruisers also known as pocket-battleships
Source
Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 101 dated 21 March 1942
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