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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Adler (ex-Peder Skram)		99	Orlogsværftet, Copenhagen, Denmark	24.5.1905	2.5.1908	24.9.1909 // 1944	sunk 1.4.1945

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	3500
Displacement full, t	3783
Length, m	84.0 wl 87.1 oa
Breadth, m	15.6
Draught, m	4.97 normal 5.03 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 6 Thornycroft boilers or none
Power, h. p.	4200 or none
Max speed, kts	15.5 or none
Fuel, t	coal 245
Armour, mm	belt: 195 - 155, deck: 65 - 45, CT: 190
Armament	6 x 1 - 105/42 SK C/32, 4 x 1 - 40/56 FlaK 28, 4 x 4 - 20/65 C/38
Electronic equipment	FuMO 212 or FuMO 213 radar
Complement

Standard scale images

Project history

Ex-Danish coast defence battleship. 28.8.1943 she was scuttled at Copenhagen, salvaged by Germans, rearmed and entered service as gunnery training ship - AA floating battery Adler. She was differed from antiaircraft batteries by main guns model and absence of the radar. She was non-self-propelled in German navy by some sources.

Ship protection

Belt has 195mm thickness amidships and 155mm abreast former barbettes. Deck was 45mm with 65mm slopes, connected with lower edge of the belt. 105mm guns were protected by shields.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Adler 1.4.1945 was lost during raid of Allied aircraft to Kiel.