Kriegsmarine — Battleship class
Bismarck-class battleship
The class in numbers
- 2 Completed
- 2 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Battleship
- Navy
- Kriegsmarine
- Built
- 1936–1941
- In commission
- 1940–1944
- Preceded by
- Scharnhorst-class battleship
- Succeeded by
- H class (planned)
- Builders
- Blohm & Voss (1)
- Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven (1)
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 41,041 long tons (41,700 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 49,506 long tons (50,300 t)
- Length
- 251 m (823.5 ft) OA
- Speed
- 30 knots (55.6 km/h, 34.5 mph)
- Complement
- 2,065
- Main gun
- 380 mm (15 in)
- Armament
- 8 × 38 cm SK C/34 (4 × 2)
- 12 × 15 cm SK C/28 (6 × 2)
- 16 × 10.5 cm SK C/33 (8 × 2)
- 16 × 3.7 cm SK C/30 (8 × 2)
- 20 × 2 cm FlaK 30 (20 × 1)
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| German battleship Bismarck | 1940 | Scuttled 1941 | |
| German battleship Tirpitz | 1941 | Sunk 1944 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Bismarck-class battleship on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.