Kriegsmarine — Battleship class
Deutschland-class battleship
The class in numbers
- 5 Completed
- 3 Lost
- 2 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Battleship
- Navy
- Kriegsmarine
- Built
- 1903–1908
- In commission
- 1906–1945
- Preceded by
- Braunschweig-class battleship
- Succeeded by
- Nassau-class battleship
- Builders
- Germaniawerft
- Schichau-Werke
- Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven
- A G Vulcan
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 12,983 long tons (13,191 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 13,993 long tons (14,218 t)
- Length
- 127.6 m (418.6 ft) OA
- Speed
- 19.1 knots (35.4 km/h, 22 mph)
- Complement
- 743
- Main gun
- 280 mm (11 in)
- Armament
- 4 × 28 cm SK L/40 guns
- 14 × 17 cm SK L/40 guns
- 20 × 8.8 cm SK L/35 naval guns
- 6 × 45 cm torpedo tubes
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee | 1936 | Scuttled 1939 | |
| German cruiser Admiral Scheer | 1934 | Scrapped 1945 | |
| German cruiser Deutschland | 1933 | Target 1947 | |
| SMS Schlesien | 1908 | Scrapped 1945 | |
| SMS Schleswig-Holstein | 1908 | Scuttled 1944 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Deutschland-class battleship on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.