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Cöln 1918

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Cöln		247	Blohm & Voss, Hamburg	1915	5.10.1916	17.1.1918	interned 11.1918, scuttled 21.6.1919
Wiesbaden		433	Vulcan, Stettin	1915	3.3.1917	---	sold incomplete 11.1919
Dresden		601	Howaldtswerke, Kiel	1916	25.4.1917	28.3.1918	interned 12.1918, beached 21.6.1919
Magdeburg		602	Howaldtswerke, Kiel	1916	17.11.1917	---	sold incomplete 11.1919
Leipzig		235	Weser, Bremen	1915	28.1.1918	---	sold incomplete 11.1919
Rostock		434	Vulcan, Stettin	1915	6.4.1918	---	sold incomplete 11.1919
Frauenlob		42	KW Kiel	1915	16.10.1918	---	sold incomplete 11.1919
Ersatz Cöln		236	Weser, Bremen	1916	---	---	sold incomplete 11.1919
Ersatz Emden		237	Weser, Bremen	1916	---	---	sold incomplete 11.1919
Ersatz Karlsruhe		43	KW Kiel	1916	---	---	BU incomplete 1920

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	5620
Displacement full, t	7486
Length, m	155.5 oa 149.8 wl
Breadth, m	14.2
Draught, m	6.43 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Marine steam turbines, 14 Marine boilers
Power, h. p.	31000
Max speed, kts	27.5
Fuel, t	coal 1100 + oil 800 Cöln: coal 1100 + oil 1050
Endurance, nm(kts)	5400(12) Cöln: 6000(12)
Armour, mm	belt: 60 - 18, deck: 40 - 20, slopes: 60 - 40, glacises: 100, CT: 100, shields: 50, mine hold: 30
Armament	Cöln, Dresden: 8 x 1 - 149/42 SK L/45 C/09, 2 x 1 - 88/45 SK L/45 C/13, 4 x 1 - 500 TT, 200 mines incomplete ships: 8 x 1 - 149/42 SK L/45 C/09, 3 x 1 - 88/45 SK L/45 C/13, 4 x 1 - 500 TT, 200 mines
Complement	559

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Project history

With the outbreak of war the restrictions on numbers imposed by the Naval Act vanished. To replace the war losses of light cruisers the Imperial German Navy began an ambitious programme of ten vessels, but because of manpower and material shortages only two were commissioned, although five more were launched. From the point of view of design they were an improved version of the second Königsberg class,

Ship protection

Main belt was 60mm thick abreast machinery and 18mm at ship ends, it was closed fwd by 40mm bulkhead. 40mm protective deck above machinery was connected with the belt by 60mm slopes, ship ends were protected by 20mm deck with 40mm slopes. CT had 100mm sides and 20mm roof, guns had 50mm shields and 20mm protection of ammunition hoists. Mine holds were protected by 30mm sides and 20mm roof.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Dresden and Cöln (ii) were scuttled at Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919. The others were broken up in the 1920s.