Ships of Interest - Germany

Most of this is small fry and senerio pieces but I figured I would create content to discuss and half fun with.  I tried to keep it focused on navy units not Luftwaffe.

Ships
Friesenland Catapult Ship - Former owned by Lüfthansa and used for sea planes - one of the newer larger ships (1937, 6813 tons) - seaplane detachment, sea plane repair, forward placement.
www.navypedia.org/ships/germany/ger_cv_friesenland.htm

Kanonenboot 1941 - (fantasy) gunboat, sub-hunter - first German ship designed with a helicopter flight deck and armed with 6 depth charge launcher.
www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/ships/misc/kanonenboot1941/index.html

AA Battery Hulk - take your pick, can be placed by an installation and has the ability to sit in shallow water and fire on aircraft that are placed over the installation as long as the AA Battery is adjacent.
www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/ships/aabattery/index.html


Marinefährprahm - most widely used landing craft - Operation Sea Lion anyone?
www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/ships/landingcrafts/mfp/index.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinef%C3%A4hrprahm

Minenleger Projekt - (fantasy) offense minded mine layer, never realized.
www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/ships/minelayer/minelayer/index.html

Sperrbrecher(pathfinder) - A unit created to make a path through mine fields as an escort for larger ships and u-boats.  There where equipped with VES-System (large magnetic field), heavy AA, and balloons - total senerio piece but interesting unit.
www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/ships/minehunter/sperrbrecher/index.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperrbrecher

R-Boat - small coastal mine sweeper - slower cousin of S-boats - they where used for almost everything and used heavily in the invasion of Norway.
www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/ships/minehunter/rboat/index.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_boat

Flugdeckkreuzer EV or Kleiner Flugzeugträger (CVL) - (fantasy) German escort carrier - ummm..... yeah.
www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/zplan/flugdeckkreuzer/e5/index.html
www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/zplan/carrier/cvl/index.html

ZH1 - captured Isaac Sweers class destroyer, engaged English destroyers durring D-Day, damaged Tartar before being sunk.  She also escorted Japanese submarine I-129 to France.
www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/captured/destroyer/zh1/index.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_destroyer_ZH1

KH1 - (fantasy) Dutch De Zeven Provinciën, cruiser renamed KH1, was worked on slowly and launched in 1941, never completed by German but the Dutch after the war.
www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/captured/cruiser/kh1/index.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Zeven_Provinci%C3%ABn-class_cruiser

Vesuvio - (fantasy) former Thai cruiser Naresuan under construction in Italy.
www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/captured/cruiser/vesuvio/index.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etna-class_cruiser_(1941)

Aircraft

Arado Ar 196 - German equivalent of the Rufe but in a sub hunter roll, also deep insertion - perhaps 1 troop point?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arado_Ar_196

Flettner Fl 282 - (fantasy) helicopter???  I don't even know what I would do with it.... best attached to a ship as an SA or ghost unit.
www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/aviation/shipbased/fl282/index.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flettner_Fl_282
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgwRDxclU08

Donier Do 18 - early sea plane - 39, it was obsolete but was Germany's only seaplane at the opening of the war - it was mostly used for recon in the North Sea and training.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dornier_Do_18
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReEX3fkJxfo

Blohm Voss Bv 222 Viking - really big seaplane..... really big - transport and recon.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blohm_%26_Voss_BV_222
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dRXCW5h7RQ

Blohm & Voss BV 138 or Ju-52 with degaussing ring - mine explode'a.....
www.ww2.dk/misc/bv138.htm

Submarines

U-99 - second most sucessful u-boat and mainly commanded by Otto Kretschmer - Lone Wolf.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-99_(1940)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Kretschmer

U-103 - sunk 45 ships - active wolfpack goer - 4 years of active service and 11 patrols.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-103_(1940)

U-177 - served in the south and successfully used a Focke-Achgelis Fa 330 (gyrogilder).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-177
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-Achgelis_Fa_330
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP6VnbeWXSY