SMS Magdeburg (1917)

Magdeburg

Ship data flag  German Empire Ship type Small cruiser class Cöln class Shipyard Howaldtswerke , Kiel Build number 602 Launch November 17, 1917 Whereabouts Not completed, broken up in 1922

Ship dimensions and crew length 155.5 m ( Lüa ) 149.8 m ( KWL ) width 14.2 m Draft Max. 6.43 m displacement Construction: 5,620 t, maximum: 7,486 t   crew 559 men

Machine system machine 14 × water tube boilers 2 × steam turbine Machine performance 31,000 PS (22,800 kW) Top speed 27.5 kn (51 km / h) propeller 2 three-winged ⌀ 3.5 m

Armament 8 × Sk 15.0 cm L / 45 (1,040 shots) 3 × Flak 8.8 cm L / 45 4 × torpedo tube ⌀ 60.0 cm (8 shots) 200 sea ​​mines Armor Belt: 18-60 mm Deck : 20-60 mm Collision bulkhead: 40 mm Ammunition socket : 20 mm Command tower: 20–100 mm Shields: 50 mm

The second SMS Magdeburg was a small cruiser of the Imperial Navy . It was to be used as the fourth ship of the Cöln class . The name was given in memory of the small cruiser Magdeburg that was stranded on the island of Odensholm on August 26, 1914 .

Due to a lack of material and staff, construction was stopped nine months before completion. On November 17, 1919, the Magdeburg was removed from the list of warships. The ship was sold on October 28, 1921 and demolished in 1922.

literature

• Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945 . tape 1 : Armored ships, ships of the line, battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers, gunboats . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7637-4800-8 , p. 143 .
• Gerhard Koop, Klaus-Peter Schmolke: Small cruisers 1903-1918. Bremen to Cologne class. Volume 12: Ship classes and ship types in the German Navy. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7637-6252-3 .