A fleet cruiser beyond wartime limits
The 1916 design explored a larger, faster and more heavily armed successor that remained on the drawing board.
4850 tMaximum displacement
136 mOverall length
33 knMaximum speed
356Complement
The full story
History of Flottenkreuzer (Entwurf 1916)
The Flottenkreuzer was a projected design study for a small cruiser focused on fleet services. Previous German cruiser design were always a more general approach to be used for mutliple tasks:
Other navies favoured special designs for those tasks, and the Flottenkreuzer design was a first strudy for such a ship, comparable with the British C-class cruisers.
As this was just a design study, the ship was never ment to be built.
At a glance
Technical profile
Dimensions, armament, protection and performance.
Dimensions
- Size (Max)
- 4850 t
- Length (Total)
- 136 m
- Length (Waterline)
- 131 m
- Beam
- 12,4 m
- Draft
- 4,6 m
- Crew
- 356
Armament
- 15 cm
- 5
- 8,8 cm
- 2
- 60 cm Torpedo tubes
- 4
- Mines
- 100
Armor
- Deck
- 15-30 mm (max)
Machinery
- Shafts
- 2
- Engines
- 2
- Type
- Geared turbines
Performance
- Total Performance
- 52000 shp
- Speed
- 33 kn
The archive
Models
Ship models in 1/1250 scale.
Construction record