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Country | Germany |
Ship Class | M-class Light Cruiser |
Planned Builder | Deutsche Werke Kiel |
Planned Slip/Drydock Number | II |
Ordered | 1 Dec 1941 |
Projected Keel Laying | 1 Jun 1944 |
Projected Launch | 1 Dec 1945 |
Projected Completion | 1 Dec 1946 |
Displacement | 9,300 tons standard |
Length | 643 feet |
Beam | 59 feet |
Draft | 18 feet |
Speed | 36 knots |
Range | 12,000nm at 19 knots |
Crew | 920 |
Armament | 4x2x15cm guns, 2x2x8.8cm anti-aicraft guns, 4x2x3.7cm anti-aicraft guns, 4x2cm anti-aicraft guns, 8x53cm torpedo tubes, 60 mines |
Armor | 50mm belt, 20mm deck, 20-35mm turret roof, 80mm turret face, 25mm turret sides, 50mm conning tower roof, 100mm conning tower sides |
Aircraft | 2x Arado 196 seaplanes |
Catapult | 1 |
Contributor: C. Peter Chen
This article refers to a planned ship that was not actually built.
ww2dbaseR was one of the 6 M1-class light cruisers that the German Navy planned but never built. She was among the two that were to be larger than the other four. Like her sisters, she was intended to be used as a fast merchant raider. No work ever started on her.
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