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Pictures:
Blucher
This armored cruiser was built to match the
HMS Invincible, based on incorrect information
about the British ship's design.
Pictures:
Von der Tann
Germany's first battlecruiser
Pictures:
Moltke
Goeben
Enlarged version of the Von der Tann, with
more armor and an additional turret aft.
Account of the SMS Seydlitz at Jutland
Pictures:
Seydlitz
New- Photo Gallery of Seydlitz after the
Battle of Jutland
Heavily damaged at both Dogger Bank and Jutland,
she proved to be very rugged.
Pictures:
Derfflinger
Lutzow
Hindenburg
A tremendous advance in battlecruiser design,
these ships were, ton for ton, probably the
best capital ships of WWI.
Pictures:
Mackensen
Graf Spee
Ersatz Freya
No picture available:
Ersatz Friedrich Carl
An improvement over the Derfflinger class, with larger main guns. None were completed.
Picture:
Ersatz Yorck
Ersatz Gneisenau
Ersatz Scharnhorst
A further expansion on Derfflinger and Mackensen,
with 15" main guns. All were suspended
early in construction.
Scans are from Deutsche Grosskampfschiffe 1915 Bis 1918, by F. Forstmeier & S. Breyer
Four Main Gun Series
Six and Eight Main Gun Series
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