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Graudenz 1918

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Graudenz		36	KW Kiel	1912	25.10.1913	10.8.1914	discarded 3.1920, to Italy (Ancona)
Regensburg		197	Weser, Bremen	1912	25.4.1914	3.1.1915	discarded 3.1920, to France (Strasbourg)

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	4912
Displacement full, t	6382
Length, m	142.7 oa 139.0 wl
Breadth, m	13.8
Draught, m	6.08 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Marine steam turbines, 12 Marine boilers
Power, h. p.	26000
Max speed, kts	27.5
Fuel, t	coal 1280 + oil 375
Endurance, nm(kts)	5500(12)
Armour, mm	belt: 60 - 18, deck: 40 - 20, slopes: 60 - 40, glacises: 100, CT: 100, shields: 50
Armament	12 x 1 - 105/42 SK L/45 C/11, 2 - 500 TT (beam), 120 mines
Complement	385

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Project history

These two cruisers belonged to the 1911 programme.

Ship protection

Main belt was 60mm thick abreast machinery and 18mm at ship ends, it was closed fwd by 40mm bulkhead. 40mm protective deck above machinery was connected with the belt by 60mm slopes, ship ends were protected by 20mm deck with 40mm slopes. CT had 100mm sides and 20mm roof, guns had 50mm shields and 20mm protection of ammunition hoists.

Modernizations

1915, Graudenz: - 12 x 1 - 105/42; + 7 x 1 - 149/42 SK L/45 C/09, 2 x 1 - 88/45 SK L/13 C/13, 2 x 1 - 500 TT

1917, Regensburg: - 12 x 1 - 105/42, 2 - 500 TT; + 7 x 1 - 149/42 SK L/45 C/09, 2 x 1 - 88/45 SK L/45 C/13, 4 x 1 - 500 TT

Naval service

Graudenz served with the Scouting Group and became Italian after the war under the name Ancona; she was broken up in 1938. Regensburg served with the Scouting Group during the war and became a French war reparation after the war under the new name Strasbourg; she was broken up in 1944.