For other ships with the same name, see SMS Seydlitz and German trawler V 201 Seydlitz.
German cruiser Seydlitz
Seydlitz in May 1942, before conversion work began
History
Nazi Germany
Name
Seydlitz
Namesake
Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz
Builder
Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau, Bremen
Laid down
29 December 1936
Launched
19 January 1939
Fate
Scuttled incomplete, 29 January 1945
General characteristics (as cruiser)
Class and type
Admiral Hipper-class cruiser
Displacement
Normal: 17,600 t (17,300 long tons)
Full load: 20,100 metric tons (19,800 long tons)
Length
210 m (689 ft 0 in) overall
Beam
21.80 m (71 ft 6 in)
Draft
Full load: 7.90 m (25.9 ft)
Installed power
132,000 shp (98,000 kW)
Propulsion
3 × Blohm & Voss steam turbines
3 × propellers
Speed
32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Complement
42 officers
1340 enlisted
Armament
8 × 20.3 cm (8 in) guns
12 × 10.5 cm (4.1 in) SK C/33 guns
12 × 3.7 cm (1.5 in) SK C/30 guns
8 × 2 cm (0.79 in) C/30 guns
12 × 53.3 cm (21 in) torpedo tubes
Armor
Belt: 70 to 80 mm (2.8 to 3.1 in)
Armor deck: 20 to 50 mm (0.79 to 1.97 in)
Turret faces: 105 mm (4.1 in)
Aircraft carried
3 aircraft
Aviation facilities
1 catapult
General characteristics (as aircraft carrier)
Displacement
Design: 17,139 t (16,868 long tons; 18,893 short tons)
Length
216 m (708 ft 8 in) overall
Draft
Full load: 6.65 m (21.8 ft)
Armament
10 × 10.5 cm guns
10 × 3.7 cm guns
24 × 2 cm guns
Aircraft carried
20 aircraft
Seydlitz was a heavy cruiser of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine, fourth in the Admiral Hipper class, but was never completed. The ship was laid down in December 1936 and launched in January 1939, but the outbreak of World War II slowed her construction and fitting-out work was finally stopped in the summer of 1940 when she was approximately 95 percent complete. The unfinished ship remained pier-side in the shipyard until March 1942, when the Kriegsmarine decided to pursue aircraft carriers over surface combatants. Seydlitz was among the vessels chosen for conversion into auxiliary aircraft carriers.
Renamed Weser, the ship was to have had a complement of ten Bf 109 fighters and ten Ju 87 divebombers. Work lasted from 1942 to 1943, but was not completed, and the incomplete vessel was towed to Königsberg in early 1944. She was eventually scuttled there in 1945 as the Soviet Red Army approached the city. The wreck was seized by the Soviets and was briefly considered for cannibalization for spare parts to complete her sistership Lützow for the Soviet Navy. This plan was also abandoned, and the ship was broken up for scrap.
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