SMS SEYDLITZ IN DOCK 35

SMS SEYDLITZ A GERMAN BATTLECRUISER 1912

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: Seydlitz
Namesake: Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz
Ordered: 21 March 1910
Builder: Blohm & Voss, Hamburg
Laid down: 4 February 1911
Launched: 30 March 1912
Commissioned: 22 May 1913

Motto: Always forward

Fate: Scuttled at Scapa Flow, 21 June 1919

Salvaged in 1928, scrapped

General characteristics

Class and type: Unique battlecruiser

Displacement:

24,988 t (24,593 long tons) normal
28,550 t (28,100 long tons) full load

Length: 200.6 m (658 ft 2 in)
Beam: 28.5 m (93 ft 6 in)
Draft: 9.29 m (30 ft 6 in)

Propulsion: 4 screws, Parsons turbines, 88,510 shp (66,002 kW)

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

Range: 4,200 nmi (7,800 km; 4,800 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)

Complement: 1,068

Armament:

10 × 28 cm (11 in) SK L/50 guns (5 × 2)
12 × 15 cm (5.9 in) SK L/45 guns
12 × 8.8 cm (3.5 in)guns

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