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Country | Germany |
Ship Class | M-class Light Cruiser |
Planned Builder | Kriegsmarinewerft |
Planned Yard Number | 607 |
Planned Slip/Drydock Number | II |
Ordered | 1 Dec 1941 |
Projected Keel Laying | 1 Jun 1944 |
Projected Launch | 1 Dec 1945 |
Projected Completion | 1 Dec 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 | 1Aircraft |
Catapult | 1 |
Contributor: C. Peter Chen
This article refers to a planned ship that was not actually built.
ww2dbaseP was one of the 6 M1-class light cruisers that the German Navy planned but never built. Like her five sisters, she was intended to be used as a fast merchant raider. No work ever started on her.
ww2dbaseSource: Wikipedia
Last Major Revision: Jul 2020
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