Admiral Scheer class Heavy Cruiser (1929)
Specifications (following 1935 refit)
Weight: 13,920 long tons fully loaded
Propulsion: 3 x Blohm und Voss steam turbines
Range: 9,000 nautical miles
Speed: 32 knots
Aviation Capacity: 2 Heinkel He 60 Floatplanes, 1 catapult
Armor:
- Belt: 80mm
- Bulkheads: 50mm (Scheer, Prinz Albert, and Hipper), 60mm (Goeben and Clausewitz)
- Main Deck: 45mm
- Torpedo Bulkhead: 45mm
- Turrets: 150mm
- Barbettes: 80mm
- Conning Tower: 150mm
- 8 x 8 in guns (4x2)
- 8 x 150mm guns
- 6 x 88mm AA guns (3x2)
- 8 x 20mm AA guns
- 6 x 533mm torpedo tubes (2x3)
Ship | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Commissioned | Decommissioned | Fate |
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SMS Admiral Scheer | Kaiserliche-Werft Kiel | July 6th, 1925 | May 20th, 1927 | April 1st, 1929 | Sunk by British warships in the Indian Ocean, December 1941. | |
SMS Admiral Hipper | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg | January 2nd, 1926 | March 8th, 1928 | July 11th, 1930 | Sunk by British warships in the Indian Ocean, July 1942. | |
SMS Goeben | Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft, Kiel | December 3rd, 1925 | February 27th, 1928 | April 16th, 1930 | Sunk by Japanese warships during the Battle of Bismarck Sea, July 1941 | |
SMS Prinz Adalbert | Kaiserliche-Werft Kiel | August 17th, 1925 | July 4th, 1927 | September 11th, 1929 | April 1945 | Broken up in Konigsberg, 1947. |
SMS Clausewitz | Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft, Kiel | February 10th, 1927 | May 1st, 1929 | November 4th, 1931 | April 1945 | Broken up in Konigsberg, 1947 |
Roon class Heavy Cruiser (1936)
Specifications (as originally completed)
Weight: 15,660 long tons fully loaded
Propulsion: 3 x Blohm und Voss steam turbines
Range: 6,800 nautical miles
Speed: 32 knots
Aviation Capacity: 4 Heinkel He 60 Floatplanes, 1 catapult
Armor:
- Belt: 80mm
- Bulkheads: 80mm
- Torpedo Bulkhead: 20mm
- Main Deck: 50mm
- Turrets: 160mm
- Barbettes: 80mm
- Conning Tower: 150mm
- 8 x 8 in guns (4x2)
- 12 x 105mm AA guns (6x2)
- 12 x 37mm AA guns (6x2)
- 8 x 20mm AA guns
- 12 x 533mm torpedo tubes (4x3)
Ship | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Commissioned | Decommissioned | Fate |
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SMS Roon | Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft, Kiel | November 7th, 1932 | October 2nd, 1934 | December 7th, 1936 | Sunk by British Warships in the North Atlantic, February 1943. | |
SMS Yorck | Kaiserliche Werft, Wilhelmshaven | January 14th, 1933 | March 9th, 1935 | June 1st, 1937 | July 19th, 1963 | Broken up in Troon, 1969. |
SMS Lützow | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg | July 16th, 1934 | September 23rd, 1936 | August 28th, 1938 | Sunk during the Battle of the North Sea, September 1942. | |
SMS Prinz Friedrich | Kaiserliche Werft, Wilhelmshaven | March 2nd, 1933 | April 30th, 1935 | August 9th, 1937 | May 16th, 1961 | Broken up in Blyth, 1967. |
SMS Blücher | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg | September 19th, 1934 | November 8th, 1936 | January 1st, 1939 | Sunk during the Battle of the North Sea, September 1942. |
Scharnhorst class Heavy Cruiser (1939)
Specifications (as originally completed)
Weight: 17,400 long tons fully loaded
Propulsion: 3 x Blohm und Voss steam turbines
Range: 6,800 nautical miles
Speed: 32 knots
Aviation Capacity: 4 Arado Ar 196 floatplanes, 1 catapult
Armor:
- Belt: 120mm
- Bulkhead: 80mm
- Torpedo Bulkhead: 20mm
- Main Deck: 65mm
- Turrets: 160mm
- Barbettes: 80mm
- Conning Tower: 150mm
- 10 x 8 in guns (2x2) and (2x3)
- 16 x 105mm AA guns (8x2)
- 12 x 37mm AA guns (6x2)
- 8 x 20mm AA guns
- 12 x 533mm torpedo tubes (4x3)
Ship | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Commissioned | Decommissioned | Fate |
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SMS Scharnhorst | Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft, Kiel | July 3rd, 1935 | May 24th, 1937 | August 29th, 1939 | Sunk during the Battle of the North Sea, September 1942. | |
SMS Gneisenau | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg | June 4th, 1936 | April 22nd, 1937 | April 22nd, 1939 | April 9th, 1964 | Broken up in Cherbourg, 1970. |
SMS Admiral Reuter | AG Weser, Bremen | April 23rd, 1936 | August 22nd, 1938 | September 1st, 1940 | Sunk by British Aircraft near Stavanger, November 1942. | |
SMS Kronprinz Wilhelm | AG Vulcan, Hamburg | February 12th, 1937 | April 2nd, 1939 | March 12th, 1941 | April 10th, 1964 | Preserved as a Museum Ship in Wilhelmshaven, 1969. |
SMS Admiral Tirpitz | Kaiserliche Werft, Wilhelmshaven | December 29th, 1936 | January 19th, 1939 | January 4th, 1941 | December 11th, 1962 | Sunk in testing in the Baltic, 1971. |
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