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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Gefion		486	Schichau, Danzig	1892	31.5.1893	27.6.1894	barrack ship 1916

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	3746
Displacement full, t	4275
Length, m	110.4 oa 109.2 wl
Breadth, m	13.2
Draught, m	6.27 mean 6.47 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 6 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	9000
Max speed, kts	19
Fuel, t	coal 860
Endurance, nm(kts)	3500(12)
Armour, mm	steel; deck: 30 with 25mm slopes, glacis: 100, CT: 30
Armament	10 x 1 - 105/32 SK L/35 C/91, 6 x 1 - 50/37 SK L/40 C/92, 2 x 1 - 450 TT
Complement	212

Standard scale images

Project history

Though she resembles later German light cruisers, this three funnelled cruiser stands rather by herself as a separate development. She was originally designed for 15cm guns, but the smaller 105mm weapons were fitted instead. She was lightly built, though she did have a protective deck. She was wood-sheathed, and served for a while abroad.

Ship protection

There was protective deck with 30mm flat and 25mm slopes, engine glacis had 100mm armour on 180mm wooden backing. CT had 30mm sides.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

In 1916 she was reduced to an accommodation ship, but after the war was rebuilt as the merchantman Adolf Sommerfeld. She was however broken up in I923, so the conversion was hardly a success, and can be explained only by the shortage of shipping immediately after the war.