Graudenz class
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| Class details | |
| Ship type: | Small cruiser |
| Period of service: | 1914-1920 |
| Units: | 2 |
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SMS Graudenz SMS Regensburg |
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| Technical specifications | |
| Length: | over all: 142.7 m, waterline: 139 m |
| Width: | 13.8 m |
| Draft: | 6.1 meters |
| Displacement : | Construction: 4,912 t maximum: 6,382 t |
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| Speed: | 27.5 kn |
| Range: | 5,000 nm at 12 kn |
| Fuel supply: | |
| Armament: |
later replaced by :
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| Crew: | 21 officer and 364 men |
The Graudenz class was a series of small cruisers of the Imperial Navy . It was designed as an official draft in 1911 by the construction office of the Reichsmarinamt.
Two ships of this class were built. Like all cruisers since the Bremen class from 1904, the ships were named after cities: Graudenz and Regensburg .
draft
The Graudenz class was the successor to the Karlsruhe class . Both cruiser classes were very similar in terms of size, speed, armament and armor. Ten coal-fired and two oil-fired water-tube boilers were also used for the propulsion system, but these were now set up in four boiler rooms; in the Karlsruhe and Magdeburg classes there were still five boiler rooms. With this changed subdivision it was also possible to go back to three chimneys. Outwardly, this is the only difference between these ships and those of the two previous classes. Turbines and screws were also identical to those of the previous cruisers.
In the later course of the First World War , the Graudenz and Regensburg exchanged the twelve 10.5 cm guns for seven 15 cm cannons. In contrast to the following cruiser classes, they only had a 15 cm gun on the foredeck.
literature
- Erwin Strohbusch : Warship building since 1848. German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven 1984
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