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| Country | Germany |
| Ship Class | M-class Light Cruiser |
| Planned Builder | F. Schichau Danzig |
| Planned Yard Number | 129 |
| Planned 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.
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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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