The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer sank the most ships, 17 or 18 altogether. Most during a sortie against British and Allied shipping which lasted for 5 months, late Oct 1940- April the 1st 1941. One of these ships was the famous armed merchant cruiser HMS Jervis Bay. There was also a brief raid in the Arctic around July or August of 1942 when an additional ship ( a Russian icebreaker IIRC ) was sunk. There were even more successful German armed merchant cruisers that accounted for more ship losses, but these do not strictly speaking count as warships.
Did not know that, So the Kriegsmarine got their moneys worth out of their Battle CRuisers, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau I remember having a Time Life, Book of WWII Surface units as a kid, and thought they were just the coolest looking ships.
The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer sank the most ships, 17 or 18 altogether. Most during a sortie against British and Allied shipping which lasted for 5 months, late Oct 1940- April the 1st 1941. One of these ships was the famous armed merchant cruiser HMS Jervis Bay. There was also a brief raid in the Arctic around July or August of 1942 when an additional ship ( a Russian icebreaker IIRC ) was sunk.
There were even more successful German armed merchant cruisers that accounted for more ship losses, but these do not strictly speaking count as warships.
Hey thanks for commenting I meant warships I will fix the title
Did not know that, So the Kriegsmarine got their moneys worth out of their Battle CRuisers, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau I remember having a Time Life, Book of WWII Surface units as a kid, and thought they were just the coolest looking ships.
Ya they were much better value then the Bismarck class. Thanks you commenting
Warspite sank docked ships in Algeria?
Not sure I could not find the answer.