Marine Nationale — Cruiser class
Graudenz-class cruiser
The class in numbers
- 2 Planned
- 2 Completed
- 1 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Cruiser
- Navy
- Marine Nationale
- Built
- 1912–1915
- In commission
- 1914–1944
- Preceded by
- Karlsruhe-class cruiser
- Succeeded by
- Pillau-class cruiser
- Builders
- Kiel Navy Yard, AG Weser
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 4,834 long tons (4,912 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 6,281 long tons (6,382 t)
- Length
- 142.7 m (468.2 ft)
- Speed
- 27.5 knots (50.9 km/h, 31.6 mph)
- Main gun
- 150 mm (5.9 in)
- Armament
- As built:
- 12 × 10.5 cm SK L/45 guns
- 2 × 50 cm torpedo tubes
- After refit:
- 7 × 15 cm SK L/45 guns
- 2 × 8.8 cm SK L/45 anti-aircraft guns
- 4 × 50 cm torpedo tubes
- 120 mines
Roster
Holding 1 of the 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| French cruiser Strasbourg | 1915 | Scuttled 1944 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Graudenz-class cruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.