SMS Derfflinger

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Career KLM ensign
Builder: Blohm & Voß, Hamburg
Ordered: 1912-1913 Naval Programme
Laid down: 30 March 1912
Launched: 17 July 1913
Commissioned: 1 September 1914
Fate: Scuttled in Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919, wreck raised 1939, broken down after 1946
General characteristics
Displacement: 26,180 tons normal load
31,200 tons full load
Length: 210.4 meters (690.32 feet)
Beam: 29.0 meters (95.14 feet)
Draft: 9,20 meters (30.18 feet)
Propulsion: 4 shaft Parsons turbines; 18 boiler; 76,634 shp
Speed: 25.5 knots
Range: 5600 nm at 12 kn
Complement: 44 officers and 1068 men
Armament:
  • 8 x 30.5 cm (12") SK L/50 in 4 twin turrets
  • 12 x 15 cm (5.9") SK L/45 in 12 single turrets
  • 4 x 8,8 cm (4 x 1) in 4 single mounts
  • 4 x single 50 cm torpedo tubes
Armour:

Belt

  • 300 mm

Command Tower

  • 300 mm

Deck

  • 30 mm

Turrets

  • 270 mm

SMS Derfflinger was a World War I battlecruiser of the German Kaiserliche Marine. The ship was named after Brandenburg Field Marshal Reichsfreiherr Georg von Derfflinger who fought in the Thirty Years' War. She was the lead ship of her class, her sister ships being SMS Lützow and SMS Hindenburg.

She was to be launched 14 June 1913, but due to a mishap the ship got stuck after only a few centimeters. A second attempt was successful on 17 July 1913.

German battlecruiser Derfflinger scuttled at Scapa Flow.
German battlecruiser Derfflinger scuttled at Scapa Flow.

Upon commissioning she was attached to the 1st Scouting Group commanded by Vice Admiral Franz Hipper. After the outbreak of WWI she took part in the bombardment of Scarborough, Yorkshire on 14 December 1914. Subsequently, she fought at the Battle of Dogger Bank (1915) in 1915 where she was hit by 3 shells. At the Battle of Jutland she sank the British battlecruiser HMS Queen Mary on 31 May 1916, but was herself heavily damaged by 21 heavy shell hits, with the repairs taking 4 months.

After the end of WWI, she was interned at Scapa Flow where her crew scuttled her on 21 June 1919. The wreck was raised in 1939 but was not scrapped until after the war.

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