SMS DERFFLINGER IN DOCK 15

SMS DERFFLINGER A GERMAN BATTLESHIP 1914

FWD PORT QTR VEIW -------- AFT PORT QTR VEIW

A CLOSE UP VEIW OF THE BRIDGE AREA

DETAIL OF MIDSHIPS BULKHEAD WORK RQD ---------- AFT VEIW WITH PARTS THAT NEED UPGRADE

OVERHEAD VEIW OF BASIC BOW DETAILS ( MUCH TO BE UPGRADED )

BOW OVERHEAD VEIW --------- STERN OVERHEAD VEIW

PORT SIDE BASIC DETAIL WORKS SO FAR

BOW VEIW ----------- STERN VEIW

STD VEIW OF WORK SO FAR

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Name: Derfflinger
Namesake: Georg von Derfflinger
Ordered: 1912–1913 Naval Program
Builder: Blohm & Voss, Hamburg
Laid down: 30 March 1912
Launched: 17 July 1913
Commissioned: 1 September 1914
Nickname(s): "Iron Dog"

Fate: Scuttled in Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919, wreck raised 1939, broken up after 1946

General characteristics

Class and type: Derfflinger-class battlecruiser
Displacement:

Normal: 26,600 t (26,200 long tons)
Full Load: 31,200 t (30,700 long tons)

Length: 210.40 m (690 ft 3 in) (o/a)
Beam: 29 m (95 ft 2 in)
Draft: 9.20 m (30 ft 2 in)

Propulsion: 4 shaft Parsons turbines; 18 boiler; 75,585 shp (56,364 kW)

Speed: 26.5 knots (49.1 km/h; 30.5 mph)

Range: 5,600 nmi (10,400 km; 6,400 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)

Complement: 44 officers and 1,068 men

Armament:

8 × 30.5 cm (12") SK L/50 in 4 twin turrets
12 × 15 cm (5.9") SK L/45 in 12 single turrets
4 × 8.8 cm (4×1) in 4 single mounts
4 × single 50 cm (20 in) torpedo tubes

Armor:

Belt: 300 mm (12 in)
Command Tower: 300 mm
Deck: 30 mm (1.2 in)
Turrets: 270 mm (11 in)

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