SMS Rostock (1918)

Rostock

Ship data flag  German Empire Ship type Small cruiser class Cöln class Shipyard AG Vulcan , Szczecin Build number 434 Launch April 6, 1918 Whereabouts Not completed, broken up in 1921

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 Rostock was a small cruiser of the Imperial Navy . It was the sixth planned ship of the Cöln class and was originally to be built as a replacement for the cruiser Mainz , which was sunk on August 28, 1914 . The ship was then named after the small cruiser Rostock , which sank in the Skagerrak Battle .

Due to a lack of material and staff, construction was slow. It was stopped seven months before completion. On November 17, 1919, the Rostock was removed from the list of warships and sold for demolition in 1921.

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 .