Königsberg class (1915)
Koenigsberg class | |
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Karlsruhe 1919 in Scapa Flow |
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Overview | |
Type | Small cruiser |
units | 4th |
Order | 1913 |
Keel laying | 1914-1915 |
Launch | 1915-1916 |
Namesake | Cities of Königsberg , Emden , Karlsruhe and Nuremberg |
1. Period of service | |
Commissioning | 1916-1917 |
Whereabouts | The Entente's spoils of war |
Technical specifications | |
displacement |
Construction: 5440 t |
length |
KWL : 145.8 m |
width |
14.2 m |
Draft |
5.96 - 6.32 m |
crew |
17 officers and 458 men |
drive |
like Graudenz class |
speed |
27.5 kn |
Range |
4850 nm at 12 kn |
Armament |
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Volume | |
Armor |
like Magdeburg class, |
stock |
350 - 1340 t coal and |
The Königsberg class , also known as the Königsberg II class , was a class of four small cruisers of the Imperial Navy which were used in the First World War . After the cruiser class of 1905, it is the second class to bear this name .
General
Designed in 1913, the four ships were designated as replacement Gazelle , replacement Nymphe , replacement Niobe and replacement Thetis . When they were launched, they were baptized with the names of small cruisers that were lost in distant waters at the beginning of the First World War .
In contrast to the first Königsberg class , these ships were larger, faster and more heavily armed (15 cm guns). Instead of the battering bow, they had a sloping stem. They were used in the last two years of the war.
After the war, all ships of this class except for the Königsberg were interned in Scapa Flow . When the Imperial High Seas Fleet was sunk on June 21, 1919, Nuremberg and Emden were grounded by the British. The Karlsruhe sank and is still lying there today on the ground.
The Konigsberg served after the war, first as a mail boat for the interned High Seas Fleet. It was then handed over to France as reparation. There she drove for a few years under the name Metz .
List of ships
Surname | Shipyard | Keel laying | Launch | Commissioning | Whereabouts |
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SMS Koenigsberg | AG Weser , Bremen | August 22, 1914 | December 18, 1915 | August 12, 1916 | Decommissioned on November 5, 1919, French spoils of war and broken up in 1936 |
SMS Emden | AG Weser, Bremen | December 2, 1914 | February 1, 1916 | March 12, 1917 | attempted scuttling on June 21, 1919 in Scapa Flow , French spoils of war and broken up in 1926 |
SMS Karlsruhe | Imperial shipyard , Kiel | May 4, 1915 | January 31, 1916 | November 15, 1916 | self-sunk on June 21, 1919 in Scapa Flow |
SMS Nuremberg | Howaldtswerke , Kiel | December 1914 | April 16, 1916 | February 15, 1917 | attempted scuttling on June 21, 1919 in Scapa Flow , sunk
as a British target ship in 1922 |
literature
- Gerhard Koop / Klaus-Peter Schmolke, Kleine Kreuzer 1903-1918, Bremen to Cöln-Klasse , Volume 12 Ship classes and ship types of the German Navy, Bernard & Graefe Verlag Munich, 2004, ISBN 3-7637-6252-3 .
- Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung and Martin Maass, The German Warships 1815–1945 Volume 1 . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7637-4800-8 .