Kriegsmarine — Cruiser class
Gazelle-class cruiser
The class in numbers
- 10 Completed
- 4 Lost
- 6 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Cruiser
- Navy
- Kriegsmarine
- Built
- 1897–1904
- Preceded by
- Hela
- Succeeded by
- Bremen-class cruiser
- Builders
- AG Weser (5)
- Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft (3)
- Howaldtswerke (1)
- Kaiserliche Werft Danzig (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
- 2,663 long tons (2,706 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 3,130 long tons (3,180 t)
- Length
- 105 m (344.5 ft)
- Speed
- 21.5 knots (39.8 km/h, 24.7 mph)
- Complement
- 14
- Main gun
- 105 mm (4.1 in)
- Armament
- 10 × 10.5 cm SK L/40 guns
- 2 × 45 cm torpedo tubes
Roster
Holding 3 of the 10 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italian cruiser Cattaro | 1900 | Sunk 1943 | |
| SMS Arcona (1902) | 1902 | 1903 | Scuttled 1945 |
| SMS Niobe | 1900 | Sunk 1943 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Gazelle-class cruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.