Graudenz-Class
Heavy 15cm Armed Light Cruisers - 2 ships built (1914): Graudenz, Regensburg. First purpose-built German light cruisers with 15cm guns (Pillau was ex-Russian). Heavy armament: 12× 15cm guns (most heavily-armed German light cruisers to date). 4,912 tons, 28.2 knots. Both survived WWI. SMS Graudenz: Transferred Italy 1920 (war prize), served as Ancona (1920-1937), scrapped. SMS Regensburg: French war prize 1920, served as Strasbourg (1920-1944), scuttled by Germans 1944.
Specifications
- Displacement (std)
- 4912 t
- Displacement (full)
- 6382 t
- Length
- 468.2 ft
- Beam
- 45.3 ft
- Crew
- 385
- Ships built
- 2
- Commissioned
- 1914
- Decommissioned
- 1920-1944
Performance
- Top speed
- 27.5 kn
- Range
- 5500 nm at 12 knots
Armament
- Main guns
- 12× 15cm (5.9-inch) SK L/45
- Secondary guns
- 2× 8.8cm SK L/45 AA
- Torpedoes
- 4× 50cm
Armor & Systems
- Belt
- 60mm waterline belt
- Deck
- 20-80mm
- Fire control
- Optical rangefinders
In-Game
- Tier
- T3
- Game power
- 56.16
- Research cost
- 11,120
- Credit cost
- 39,312
Notable
- Heavy 15cm armament: 12× guns (most heavily-armed German light cruisers to date)
- Adopted 15cm gun after Pillau success
- First purpose-built German light cruisers with 15cm guns (Pillau was ex-Russian)
- Both ships survived WWI
- SMS Graudenz: Transferred Italy 1920, served as Ancona (1920-1937)
- SMS Regensburg: French war prize 1920, served as Strasbourg (1920-1944)