Moltke Class Crusier

[chaosquint]

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Name:

Goeben

 

Namesake:

August Karl von Goeben

 

Ordered:

8 April 1909

 

Builder:

Blohm & Voss, Hamburg

 

Laid down:

28 August 1909

 

Launched:

28 March 1911

 

Commissioned:

2 July 1912

 

Fate:

Transferred to the Ottoman Empire 16 August 1914

 

Class and type:

Moltke-class battlecruiser

 

Displacement:

Design: 22,979 t (22,616 long tons)

Full load: 25,400 t (25,000 long tons)[1]

 

Length:

186.6 m (612 ft 2 in)

 

Beam:

30 m (98 ft 5 in)

 

Draft:

9.2 m (30 ft 2 in)

 

Installed power:

Design: 52,000 hp (39,000 kW)

Maximum: 85,782 hp (63,968 kW)[2]

 

Propulsion:

4 screws, Parsons steam turbines

 

Speed:

Design: 25.5 kn (47.2 km/h; 29.3 mph)

Maximum: 28.4 kn (52.6 km/h; 32.7 mph)[1]

 

Range:

4,120 nmi (7,630 km; 4,740 mi) at 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph)[1]

 

Complement:

43 officers

1,010 men

 

Armament:

10 × 28 cm (11 in) SK L/50 guns (5 × 2)

12 × 15 cm (5.9 in) guns

12 × 8.8 cm (3.5 in) guns

 

Armor:

Belt: 280–100 mm (11–3.9 in)

Barbettes: 230 mm (9.1 in)

Turrets: 230 mm

Deck: 76.2–25.4 mm (3–1 in)

Conning tower: 350 mm (14 in)

 

Goeben ("His Majesty's Ship Goeben") was the second of two Moltke-class battlecruisers of the Imperial German Navy, launched in 1911 and named after the German Franco-Prussian War veteran General August Karl von Goeben. Along with her sister ship Moltke, Goeben was similar to the previous German battlecruiser design, Von der Tann, but larger and with increased armor protection and two more main guns in an additional turret. Compared to their British rivals in the Indefatigable class, Goeben and Moltke were significantly larger and better armored.

 

Several months after her commissioning in 1912, Goeben, with the light cruiser Breslau, formed the German Mediterranean Division and patrolled there during the Balkan Wars. After the outbreak of World War I on 28 July 1914, Goeben and Breslau evaded British naval forces in the Mediterranean and reached Constantinople. The two ships were transferred to the Ottoman Empire on 16 August 1914, and Goeben became the flagship of the Ottoman Navy as Yavuz Sultan Selim, usually shortened to Yavuz. By bombarding Russian facilities in the Black Sea, she brought Turkey into World War I on the German side. In 1936 she was officially renamed TCG Yavuz ("Ship of the Turkish Republic Yavuz"); she carried the remains of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk from Istanbul to İzmit in 1938. Yavuz remained the flagship of the Turkish Navy until she was decommissioned in 1950.

 

She was scrapped in 1973, after the West German government declined an invitation to buy her back from Turkey. She was the last surviving ship built by the Imperial German Navy, and the longest-serving battlecruiser or dreadnought-type ship in any navy.

[ReiAyanami]

As for the 1973 affair, well big mistake to scrap her. The ship it self though meant little for Germany, historically wise, and she must have been in a dreadful state of deterioration by that time. Turkey must had her repaired and conserved

[Carrier_Enterprise]

Hmm, interesting.

[Skygunner]

ReiAyanami, on 16 September 2012 - 11:26 AM, said:

As for the 1973 affair, well big mistake to scrap her. The ship it self though meant little for Germany, historically wise, and she must have been in a dreadful state of deterioration by that time. Turkey must had her repaired and conserved

It wasn't a popular option among the people as well, but when it came down to it no one had the money to keep the ship around.  She was still burning coal till the day she was scrapped and that was just issue 1 on a very, very long list.   That being said the Turks did modernize it  (sorta) so I wouldn't be surprised if we saw Yavuz appear as a premium ship in game.