Kriegsmarine — Aircraft carrier class
Graf Zeppelin-class aircraft carrier
The class in numbers
- 4 Planned
- 0 Completed
- 2 Cancelled
Design and service
- Type
- Aircraft carrier
- Navy
- Kriegsmarine
- Preceded by
- German aircraft carrier I (1915)
- Succeeded by
- German aircraft carrier I (1942)
- Builders
- Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft, Deutsche Werke
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, full load
- 33,550 long tons (34,088 t)
- Length
- 262.5 m (861.2 ft)
- Speed
- 33.8 knots (62.6 km/h, 38.9 mph)
- Complement
- 1,720
- Main gun
- 150 mm (5.9 in)
- Armament
- 16 × 15 cm SK C/28 guns
- 12 × 10.5 cm SK C/33 guns
- 22 × 3.7 cm SK C/30 guns
- 28 × 2 cm FlaK guns
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin | 1938 | Target 1947 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Graf Zeppelin-class aircraft carrier on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.