Roon-Class
Improved Armored Cruisers with Thickest Armor - 2 ships built (1906): Roon, Yorck. Improved design: faster (21.1 knots vs. 20.5), thicker armor (100-280mm belt, thickest for German armored cruisers). 9,533 tons, 4× 21cm + 10× 15cm guns. SMS Yorck: Lost to German mines in Jade estuary (4 Nov 1914, 336 killed), worst German naval accident of WWI. SMS Roon: Survived WWI, Baltic operations, scrapped 1921. Demonstrated peak armored cruiser design before battlecruiser evolution.
Specifications
- Displacement (std)
- 9533 t
- Displacement (full)
- 10266 t
- Length
- 419.3 ft
- Beam
- 66.3 ft
- Crew
- 633
- Ships built
- 2
- Commissioned
- 1906
- Decommissioned
- 1914-1916 (sunk/scrapped)
Performance
- Top speed
- 21.1 kn
- Range
- 5280 nm at 12 knots
Armament
- Main guns
- 4× 21cm (8.3-inch) SK L/40
- Secondary guns
- 10× 15cm (5.9-inch) SK L/40
- Torpedoes
- 6× 45cm
Armor & Systems
- Belt
- 100-280mm Krupp cemented
- Deck
- 40-70mm
- Fire control
- Optical rangefinders
In-Game
- Tier
- T2
- Game power
- 25.83
- Research cost
- 2,273
- Credit cost
- 18,081
Notable
- Improved Prinz Adalbert design (21.1 knots vs. 20.5)
- Thickest armor for German armored cruisers (100-280mm belt)
- Increased SHP: 17,000 vs. 15,000 (Prinz Adalbert)
- SMS Yorck: Lost to German mines (4 Nov 1914, 336 killed, worst German naval accident)
- SMS Roon: Survived WWI, scrapped 1921