GERMAN NAVY.
LOSSES INDICATED. strength; before war. ■ The following table is prepared from the data at present available to indicate the strength of the German navyon the outbreak of war and to-day. The main armament only is noted; all ships carry' lighter and anti-aircraft guns in addition. “Pocket” battleships and cruisers also earr.v torpedo tubes. The majority of the larger ships carrytwo aircraft. Reliable up-to-date figures regarding Germany’s destroyer and submarine flotillas are not obtainable. The number of destroyers built and building at the beginning of 1939 was 38. At that time the German Navy had built or building a total of 70 odd sub marines, including 32 of tho small coastal type of 250 tons. hut both through losses and through intensified building these figures have since been greatly altered. BATTLES!! IPS. Bismarck.—3s,ooo tons. Germany’s latest battleship, launched 1939, and believed not yet in commission. Eight loin guns. Speed about 28 knots. Tirpitz.—Sister - ship to Bismarck, launched 1939; not yet in commission. Two heavier battleships building. BATTLE-CRUISERS. Scharnhorst.—26,ooo tons. Modern light battleship, completed 1939. Nine llin guns. Speed 27 knots. Two aircraft. Believed damaged by gunfire by H.M.S. Renown. April 11. Gneisenau.—Sister-ship to Scharnhorst, completed 1938. Damaged by Norwegian batteries and destroyed bv mine, April 9. “POCKET’’ BATTLESHIPS. Lutzow (formerly Deutschland). — 10,000 tons. Type ship of Germany's “pocket” battleships, completed 1931. Six llin guns. Speed 26 knots. Two aircraft. Admiral Seheer.—Sister-ship to Deutschland, completed 1934. Struck by one or more torpedoes from 1-j.M. submarine Spearfish, April LI. Admiral Graf Spec.—Sister-ship, completed 1934. Damaged and scuttled, Battle of the River Plate, Decem- • her 12. OLDER BATTLESHIPS. Hessen. —12,988 tons. Completed 1905, now a target ship. Schlesien.—l2,3oo tons. Completed 1908, reconstructed 1925-30. Four llin guns. Speed IS knots. Schleswig-Holstein. Sister-ship to Schlesien, also reconstructed. AIRCRAFT-CARRIERS. Graf Zeppelin.—l9,2so tons. Launched 1938. Sixteen 5.9 in guns. Speed about 32 knots. Forty aircralt. “B.” —Sister-ship to Graf Zeppelin, building. CRUISERS. Blucher.—lo,ooo tons. Most- modern of Germany’s medium cruisers, completed 1939. Eight Sin guns. 32 knots. Admiral Hipper, Sister-ship to Blucher. Prinz Eugen.—lo,ooo tons. Eight Sin guns. 32 knots. Launched 1938, may be in commission. Scydlitz.—Sistor-ship to Prinz Eugen. Launched 1939. “I;.”—Sister-ship, building. “M” and “N.”-—7OOO tons, building. LIGHT CRUISERS. Leipzig.—6ooo tons. Completed 1931. Nine 5.9 in guns. 32 knots. Seriously damaged by submarine Salmon, December, 1939. Nurnberg. Sister-ship to Leipzig, completed 1935. Konigsberg. 1929. Nine 5.9 in guns, two aircraft. 32 knots. Koln. —Sister-ship to Konigsberg, completed 1930. Karlsruhe. —Sister-ship to Konigsberg, completed 1929. Destroyed by Norwegian action. April 9. (Cruiser of this class believed damaged by submarine action, December.) Emtlen. —5400 tons. Completed 1925. Eight 5.9 in guns. 29 knots. Sunk by Norwegian minelayer Olav Tryggva-son, April 9.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 118, 17 April 1940, Page 8
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