Light Cruiser N

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Country	Germany
Ship Class	M-class Light Cruiser
Builder Name	F. Schichau Danzig
Yard Number	129
Slip/Drydock Number	V
Ordered	1 Oct 1941
Projected Keel Laying	1 Jan 1944
Projected Launch	1 Jul 1945
Projected Completion	1 Jul 1946
Displacement	8,500 tons standard
Length	600 feet
Beam	56 feet
Draft	18 feet
Speed	35 knots
Range	8,000nm 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.

ww2dbaseN was one of the 6 M1-class light cruisers that the German Navy planned but never launched. Like her five sisters, she was intended to be used as a fast merchant raider. Her keel was laid down in 1938, but the work ceased on on 21 Sep 1939. She was broken up shortly after. Her second keel laying was nominally re-scheduled for 1944, but even in 1939 German Navy leadership had a sense that the ship was never to be built.

ww2dbaseSource: Wikipedia

Last Major Revision: May 2020

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21 Sep 1939

The work on light cruiser N ceased at Kriegsmarinewerft in Wilhelmshaven, Germany.

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