The torpedo severely damaged the ship's stern, which necessitated repairs in Germany. In February 1942, Prinz Eugen was deployed to Norway, although her time stationed there was curtailed when she was torpedoed by the British submarine Trident days after arriving in Norwegian waters. After putting into occupied France and undergoing repairs, the ship participated in Operation Cerberus, a daring daylight dash through the English Channel back to Germany. Prinz Eugen was detached from Bismarck during the operation to raid Allied merchant shipping, but this was cut short due to engine troubles. The two ships destroyed the British battlecruiser Hood and moderately damaged the battleship Prince of Wales in the Battle of the Denmark Strait. Prinz Eugen saw action during Operation Rheinübung, an attempted breakout into the Atlantic Ocean with the battleship Bismarck in May 1941. She was armed with a main battery of eight 20.3 cm (8 in) guns and, although nominally under the 10,000-long-ton (10,160 t) limit set by the Anglo-German Naval Agreement, actually displaced over 16,000 long tons (16,257 t). She was named after Prince Eugene of Savoy, an 18th-century general in the service of Austria. The ship was laid down in April 1936, launched in August 1938, and entered service after the outbreak of war, in August 1940. She served with Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. Prinz Eugen ( German pronunciation: ) was an Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser, the third of a class of five vessels. Towed to Kwajalein Atoll after Operation Crossroads nuclear weapons tests capsized 22 December 1946 As USS Prinz Eugen, before the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll
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