Königsberg class (1905)
The Szczecin
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The first Königsberg class was the immediate successor to the Bremen class . It was designed in 1903/04 and 1904/1905 and consisted of four small cruisers of the Imperial Navy . The ship names, German cities, followed the example of the Bremen class.
List of ships
Surname | Shipyard | Keel laying | Launch | Commissioning | Whereabouts |
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SMS Koenigsberg | Imperial shipyard , Kiel | - | Dec 12, 1905 | April 6, 1907 | self-sunk on July 11, 1915, in the Rufiji Delta |
SMS Nuremberg | Imperial shipyard, Kiel | - | August 28, 1906 | April 10, 1908 | sunk on December 8, 1914, during the naval battle in the Falkland Islands |
SMS Stuttgart | Imperial Shipyard , Danzig | - | September 22, 1906 | February 1, 1908 | Decommissioned on December 17, 1918, scrapped in 1920 |
SMS Szczecin | AG Vulcan , Szczecin | - | March 7, 1907 | October 29, 1907 | on 19./20. Decommissioned December 1918, scrapped 1921–1923 |
technology
This class of ship was still equipped with the classic ram bow . Although belonging to one class, there were clear differences among these ships. It was particularly noticeable that the aft chimney of the last three ships was detached (jokingly referred to as "detached" in marine jargon): it had a significantly greater distance to the middle than to the front chimney, which was due to the differently subdivided boiler system. This consisted of a total of 11 water tube boilers, which were installed in three boiler rooms at SMS Königsberg and five boiler rooms for the other ships. Three of the cruisers were equipped with two triple expansion engines; the Stettin had Parsons turbines .
Armament
All ships were equipped with ten 10.5 cm L / 40 rapid loading cannons and two 45 cm underwater torpedo tubes. While the type ship Königsberg had ten 3.7 cm automatic cannons, the three remaining units each had eight 5.2 cm L / 55 rapid-loading cannons.
modification
The Stuttgart was converted into an aircraft cruiser from February to May 1918 . The number of 10.5 cm guns was reduced to four. On the foredeck, instead of the two foremost two, two 8.8 cm L / 45 anti-aircraft guns were set up, while the entire rear half of the ship was taken up by the aircraft hangar and an open deck that was used to launch and bring the three seaplanes on board, so that the four rear gun positions were eliminated.
literature
- Gerhard Koop / Klaus-Peter Schmolke: Small cruisers 1903–1918, Bremen to Cologne class . Volume 12 classes and types of ships in the German Navy. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7637-6252-3 .