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Admiral Graf Spee
Pocket Battleship
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Specifications
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Admiral Graf Spee was a Heavy
Cruiser, originally classified as a Panzerschiff,
which served with the German Kriegsmarine before
and during World War II. In view of her comparatively
heavy artillery of 28 cm (11 inch) guns, she and
her two sisters, Deutschland (later renamed Lutzow)
and Admiral Scheer, were frequently referred to
as a pocket battleships by the British.
Admiral Graf Spee was launched in 1934 and
named after the World War I Admiral Graf Maximilian
von Spee who died, along with two of his sons,
in the first Battle of the Falkland Islands
on 8 December 1914. She was the second vessel
to be named after him, the first being the uncompleted
World War I German battlecruiser SMS Graf Spee.
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| Ordered |
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| Laid down |
October 1, 1932 |
| Launched |
June 30, 1934 |
| Commissioned |
January 6, 1936 |
| Decommissioned |
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| Fate |
Scuttled December 17, 1939 |
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| Displacement |
12,100 t standard; 16,200
t full load |
| Length |
186 m (610 ft) |
| Width |
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| Draft |
7.4 m (24 ft) |
| Armament |
Six 11 inch (280 mm) guns in two triple
turrets,
eight 5.9 inch (150 mm) guns,
six 150 mm guns
eight 37 mm anti-aircraft guns
ten 20 mm anti-aircraft guns
eight 21 inch (530 mm) torpedo tubes in 2 quadruple
mounts |
| Aircraft |
Two Arado 196 seaplanes, one catapult |
| Propulsion |
Eight 9-cylinder double-acting two-stroke
MAN diesels
two screws, 52,050 hp (40 MW) |
| Speed |
28.5 knots (53 km/h) |
| Range |
8,900 nautical miles at 20 knots (16,500
km at 37 km/h)
19,000 nautical miles at 10 knots (35,000 km at
18.5 km/h) |
| Complement |
1,150 |
| See Also |
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