Kriegsmarine — Battleship class
Scharnhorst-class battleship
The class in numbers
- 2 Completed
- 2 Lost
- 1 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Battleship
- Navy
- Kriegsmarine
- Built
- 1935–1939
- Preceded by
- L 20e α-class battleship (planned)
- Succeeded by
- Bismarck-class battleship
- Operators
- '
- Builders
- Deutsche Werke
- Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 32,100 long tons (32,615 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 38,100 long tons (38,711 t)
- Length
- 235 m (771 ft) OA
- Speed
- 31 knots (57.4 km/h, 35.7 mph)
- Complement
- 1,669
- Main gun
- 280 mm (11 in)
- Armament
- 9 × 28 cm/54.5 (11 inch) SK C/34
- 12 × 15 cm/55 (5.9") SK C/28
- 14 × 10.5 cm/65 (4.1 inch) SK C/33
- 16 × 3.7 cm/L83 (1.5") SK C/30
- 10 (later 16) × 2 cm/65 (0.79") C/30 or C/38
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| German battleship Gneisenau | 1938 | Scrapped 1945 | |
| German battleship Scharnhorst | 1939 | Sunk 1943 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Scharnhorst-class battleship on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.