SMS Derfflinger

Type:
Battlecruiser
Class:
Builder:
Blohm & Voss
Hamburg, Germany
Pennant Number:
N/A
Ordered:
1911
Commissioned:
September 1, 1914
Keel Laid:
March 30, 1912
Decommissioned:
N/A
Launched:
July 12, 1913
Stricken:


N/A
Fate:
Scrapped after 1946.
(Interned at Scapa Flow with the High Seas Fleet and scuttled on June 21, 1919.)


Dimensions, Machinery and Performance

Length:
690' 3"
Engines:
4 steam turbines
Beam:
95' 1"
Boilers:
14 twin naval (coal) / 4 double ended (oil)
Draft:
31' 5"
Shafts:
4
Displacement:
26,500 std. / 31,000 full
SHP:
63,000
Speed:
26.5 knots
Crew:
1,120
Range:
5,600 NM @ 12 knots


Armament As Built
Number Carried
Type
Arrangement
Maximum Range / Ceiling
8
12"/50 (305mm)
SK L/50

4 twin turrets
22,310 yards @ 16° (12.6 miles)
12
5.9"/45 (150mm)
SK L/45

single mounts
19,250 yards @ 30°
8
3.5"/45 (88mm)
SK L/45

single mounts
12,900 yards @ 45°
4
19.7" (500mm)
torpedo tubes
single submerged
4 broadside
1 stern
G-7 torpedoes
4,370 yards @ 37 knots
10,170 yards @ 27 knots
430 lb. Hexanite charge


Combat Victories
Date
Name
Type
Tons
Nationality
Notes
May 31, 1916
Invincible
Battlecruiser
17,526
UK
Battle of Jutland
May 31, 1916
Queen Mary
Battlecruiser
26,770
UK
Battle of Jutland


Notes
Jan. 24, 1915:
Damaged HMS Lion at the Battle of Dogger Bank.
Jan. 24, 1915:
Damaged by HMS Princess Royal (1 hit) at the Battle of Dogger Bank.
May 31, 1916:
Damaged at the Battle of Jutland by 21 hits from HMS Queen Mary and HMS Invincible.
157 crewmen killed.

Nov. 1918:
Surrendered with the High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow.
June 21, 1919:
Scuttled at Scapa Flow.
1939:
Wreck raised.


Builder's Data
Page published June 6, 2006