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Service history
Design
Overview
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- Armament
- 8 × 30.5 cm (12 in) SK L/50 guns · 12 × 15 cm (5.9 in) SK L/45 guns · 8 × 8.8 cm (3.5 in) SK L/45 guns · 4 × 50 cm (19.7 in) torpedo tubes
- Armor
- Belt: 300 mm (11.8 in) · Conning tower: 300 mm · Deck: 30 to 80 mm (1.2 to 3.1 in) · Turrets: 270 mm (10.6 in)
- Beam
- 29 m (95 ft 2 in)
- Builder
- Blohm & Voss, Hamburg
- Class & type
- Derfflinger-class battlecruiser
- Commissioned
- 1 September 1914
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Overview
- Battlecruiser
- German German Empire
- Kaiserliche Marine
- Anglo-German naval arms race
- Lead ship
- Class Ship class
- Sister ships Sister ship
- Lützow SMS Lützow
- Hindenburg SMS Hindenburg
- Derfflinger-class Derfflinger-class battlecruiser
- Superfiring
- Main battery
- Knots Knot (unit)
- Armored belt Belt armor
- World War I
- I Scouting Group
- High Seas Fleet
- North Sea
- Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby
- Battle of Dogger Bank Battle of Dogger Bank (1915)
- Bombardment of Yarmouth and Lowestoft
- Battle of Jutland
- HMS Queen Mary
- Invincible HMS Invincible (1907)
- U-boat campaign
- German Bight
- Scapa Flow
- Ludwig von Reuter
- Scuttled on 21 June 1919 Scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow
- Allied powers Allies of World War I
Design
- Naval law German naval laws
- Seydlitz SMS Seydlitz
- Long overall Length overall
- Beam Beam (nautical)
- Draft Draft (hull)
- Displaced Displacement (ship)
- Long tons Long ton
- Full load
- Derrick
- Hansa-Brandenburg W
- Seaplanes Seaplane
- Steam turbines Steam turbine
- Screw propellers Screw propeller
- Water-tube boilers Water-tube boiler
- Funnels Funnel (ship)
- Metric horsepower
- Shp Horsepower
- Nautical miles Nautical mile
- 30.5 cm (12 in) guns 30.5 cm SK L/50 gun
- Secondary battery Secondary armament
- 15 cm (5.9 in) SK L/45 15 cm SK L/45
- Casemates Casemate
- Superstructure
- Broadside Broadside (naval)
- Torpedo boats Torpedo boat
- 8.8 cm (3.5 in) SK L/45 8.8 cm SK L/45 naval gun
- Pivot mounts Pivot mount
- Flak
- Torpedo tubes Torpedo tube
- Citadel Armored citadel
Service history
- Blohm & Voss
- Hamburg Hamburg, Germany
- Keel
- Laid down Keel laying
- Georg von Derfflinger
- Field marshal
- Thirty Years' War
- Launched Ceremonial ship launching
- August von Mackensen
- Skagen
- Fitting out
- Panama Canal
- Panama–Pacific International Exposition
- San Francisco
- July Crisis
- Russian Russian Empire
- Baltic Fleet
- Japanese Empire of Japan
- Russo-Japanese War
- Commission Ship commissioning
- Sea trials Sea trial
- East Asia Squadron
- Armored cruisers Armored cruiser
- Scharnhorst SMS Scharnhorst
- Gneisenau SMS Gneisenau
- Kaiser Wilhelm Canal
- Kiel
- Baltic Sea
- Schillig
- Roadstead
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SMS Derfflinger
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Important terminology
german derfflinger battlecruisers british ships fleet ship light seydlitz von high battle two 30 cruisers seas torpedo guns group time
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SMS Derfflinger | Armament | 8 × 30.5 cm (12 in) SK L/50 guns | 1.00 | infobox |
| SMS Derfflinger | Armament | 12 × 15 cm (5.9 in) SK L/45 guns | 1.00 | infobox |
| SMS Derfflinger | Armament | 8 × 8.8 cm (3.5 in) SK L/45 guns | 1.00 | infobox |
| SMS Derfflinger | Armament | 4 × 50 cm (19.7 in) torpedo tubes | 1.00 | infobox |
| SMS Derfflinger | Armor | Belt: 300 mm (11.8 in) | 1.00 | infobox |
| SMS Derfflinger | Armor | Conning tower: 300 mm | 1.00 | infobox |
| SMS Derfflinger | Armor | Deck: 30 to 80 mm (1.2 to 3.1 in) | 1.00 | infobox |
| SMS Derfflinger | Armor | Turrets: 270 mm (10.6 in) | 1.00 | infobox |
| SMS Derfflinger | Beam | 29 m (95 ft 2 in) | 1.00 | infobox |
| SMS Derfflinger | Builder | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg | 1.00 | infobox |
| SMS Derfflinger | Class & type | Derfflinger-class battlecruiser | 1.00 | infobox |
| SMS Derfflinger | Commissioned | 1 September 1914 | 1.00 | infobox |
| SMS Derfflinger | Complement | 44 officers | 1.00 | infobox |
| SMS Derfflinger | Complement | 1,068 men | 1.00 | infobox |
| SMS Derfflinger | Displacement | Normal: 26,600 t (26,200 long tons) | 1.00 | infobox |
| SMS Derfflinger | Displacement | Full load: 31,200 t (30,700 long tons) | 1.00 | infobox |
| SMS Derfflinger | Draft | 9.2 m (30 ft 2 in) | 1.00 | infobox |
| SMS Derfflinger | Fate | Scuttled at Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919, wreck raised 1939, broken up after 1946 | 1.00 | infobox |
| SMS Derfflinger | Installed power | 18 × water-tube boilers | 1.00 | infobox |
| SMS Derfflinger | Installed power | 63,000 PS (62,000 shp) | 1.00 | infobox |
| SMS Derfflinger | Laid down | January 1912 | 1.00 | infobox |
| SMS Derfflinger | Launched | 12 July 1913 | 1.00 | infobox |
| SMS Derfflinger | Length | 210.4 m (690 ft 3 in) (o/a) | 1.00 | infobox |
| SMS Derfflinger | Name | Derfflinger | 1.00 | infobox |
| SMS Derfflinger | Namesake | Georg von Derfflinger | 1.00 | infobox |
| SMS Derfflinger | Nickname(s) | "Iron Dog" | 1.00 | infobox |
| SMS Derfflinger | Ordered | 1912–1913 Naval Program | 1.00 | infobox |
| SMS Derfflinger | Propulsion | 4 × steam turbines | 1.00 | infobox |
| SMS Derfflinger | Propulsion | 4 × screw propellers | 1.00 | infobox |
| SMS Derfflinger | Range | 5,600 nmi (10,400 km; 6,400 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) | 1.00 | infobox |
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