364' 5"

2 four cylinder triple expansion (a)

43' 6"

10 Schultz-Thornycroft (coal fired)

17' 6"

2

3,278 (std.)

11,000 (design) (b)

3,797 (full)

23 knots

280

4,690 NM @ 12 knots / 5,900 NM @ 10 knots

Lübeck fitted with Parsons turbines.

Lübeck 11,200 HP (design), actual HP in all less.

AG Wesser
Bremen, Germany

July 9, 1903

May 19, 1904

Sunk Dec. 17, 1915, mined while picking up survivors of SMS V-191.

Location: Baltic Sea, 7 miles west of Liepene, Latvia.
(57.30N - 21.27E)

About 300 crewmen killed, unknown number of survivors.

Hamburg

Stettiner Maschinenbau AG Vulcan
Stettin, Germany

July 25, 1903

Mar. 8, 1904

Scrapped between 1949-1953.

(Escaped internment with the rest of the High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow as it had
not been active since March 1917. Since that time had been used as a stationary
command ship at Wilhelmshaven. In 1920 was recommissioned and used until
1927. After 1936 was used as a floating barracks ship. Sunk in an Allied air raid
on Hamburg in 1944, was raised in 1949.)

Berlin

Kaiserliche Werft
Danzig, Germany

Sept. 22, 1903

Apr. 4, 1905

May. 31, 1947 used to dispose of gas filled ammunition and scuttled.

Location: North Sea off Jutland, Denmark.

(Escaped internment with the rest of the High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow as it had
not been active since Feb. 1917. Since 1919 had been used as a training ship.
Rebuilt between 1921-22 and used until 1929. From 1935-1945 was used
as a floating barracks ship at Kiel.)

Lübeck

Stettiner Maschinenbau AG Vulcan
Stettin, Germany

Mar. 26, 1904

Apr. 26, 1905

Scrapped in Germany 1922-23.

(Escaped internment with the rest of the High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow as it had
not been active since 1917. Since that time had been used as a submarine
training school and target ship. Sept. 3, 1920 ceded to Britain as war reparations
and scrapped.)

AG Wesser
Bremen, Germany

Apr. 30, 1904

Jan. 10, 1905

Delivered to Britain as war reparations on July 6, 1920 and scrapped.

Ersatz Meteor

Kaiserliche Werft
Kiel, Germany

N/A

N/A

Laid down in June 1904, but apparently never completed.

Leipzig

AG Wesser
Bremen, Germany

Mar. 21, 1905

Apr. 20, 1906

Sunk Dec. 8, 1914 by HMS Cornwall and HMS Glasgow in the Battle of the
Falkland Islands.

Location: South Atlantic, 172 miles southeast of the Falkland Islands.
(53.55S - 55.55W)

About 315 crewmen killed, 18 survivors picked up by the British ships.

Danzig

Kaiserliche Werft
Danzig, Germany

Sept. 23, 1905

Dec. 1, 1907

Delivered to Britain as war reparations on Sept. 15, 1920 and scrapped in
Whitby, England.