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Admiral Scheer
Pocket Battleship
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Specifications
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Admiral Scheer was a Deutschland
class heavy cruiser (often termed a pocket battleship)
which served with the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany
during World War II.
The vessel was named after Admiral Reinhard
Scheer. Originally classified as an armored
ship (Panzerschiff) in Germany, in February
1940 the Kriegsmarine reclassified the three
ships of this class as a heavy cruisers. The
pocket battleship title was provided by the
British. The ship was one of the few that was
considered to be male, meaning that its crew
referred to the ship as he instead of the usual
she
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| Ordered |
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| Laid down |
June 25, 1931 |
| Launched |
April 1, 1933 |
| Commissioned |
November 12, 1934 |
| Decommissioned |
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| Fate |
Sunk by bombs between April 9-April
10, 1945 |
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| Displacement |
12,100 t standard; 16,200
t full load |
| Length |
610 ft (186 m) |
| Width |
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| Draft |
24 ft (7.4 m) |
| 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 |
| Speed |
28.5 knots (53 km/h) |
| Propulsion |
Eight MAN diesels, two screws, 52,050
hp (40 MW) |
| Range |
8,900 nautical miles at 20 knots (16,500
km at 37 km/h) |
| Complement |
1,150 |
| See Also |
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