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Königsberg 1907

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Königsberg		31	KW Kiel	1905	12.12.1905	6.4.1907	scuttled 11.7.1915
Nürnberg		32	KW Kiel	1906	28.8.1906	10.4.1908	sunk 8.12.1914
Stuttgart			KW Danzig	1905	22.9.1906	1.2.1908	TS till 1914, seaplane tender 5.1918, discarded 11.1919
Stettin		270	Vulcan, Stettin	1906	7.3.1907	29.10.1907	TS 1917, discarded 11.1919

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	Königsberg: 3390 Nürnberg, Stuttgart: 3469 Stettin: 3480
Displacement full, t	Königsberg: 3814 Nürnberg: 3902 Stuttgart: 4002 Stettin: 3822
Length, m	Königsberg: 115.3 oa 114.8 wl Nürnberg, Stuttgart, Stettin: 117.4 oa 116.8 wl
Breadth, m	Königsberg: 13.2 Nürnberg, Stuttgart, Stettin: 13.3
Draught, m	Königsberg: 5.29 deep load Nürnberg: 5.24 deep load Stuttgart: 5.40 deep load Stettin: 5.14 deep load
No of shafts	Königsberg, Nürnberg, Stuttgart: 2 Stettin: 4
Machinery	Königsberg, Nürnberg, Stuttgart: 2 VTE, 11 Marine boilers Stettin: 4 Parsons steam turbines, 11 Marine boilers
Power, h. p.	Königsberg, Nürnberg, Stuttgart: 13200 Stettin: 13500
Max speed, kts	Königsberg, Nürnberg, Stuttgart: 23 Stettin: 24
Fuel, t	Königsberg: coal 820 Nürnberg, Stuttgart, Stettin: coal 880
Endurance, nm(kts)	Nürnberg, Stuttgart: 4120(12) Stettin: 4170(12)
Armour, mm	steel / Krupp steel - deck: 30 - 20, slopes: 80 - 45, glacises: 100, CT: 100, shields: 50
Armament	Königsberg: 10 x 1 - 105/37 SK L/40 C/97, 10 x 1 - 7.9/79, 2 - 450 TT (beam) Nürnberg, Stuttgart, Stettin: 10 x 1 - 105/37 SK L/40 C/04, 8 x 1 - 52/52 SK L/55 C/03, 2 - 450 TT (beam)
Complement	322

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Project history

This class belonged to the 1903-4 (and the later three to the 1904-5) programmes. Stettin had 4 shafts and turbines, whereas the others had 2-shaft VTE machinery.

Ship protection

30mm protective deck with 80mm slopes protected machinery, outside machine spaces deck had turtleback form with 20mm flat and 45mm slopes. Engines had 100mm glacises. CT had 100mm sides and 20mm roof, guns had 50mm shields.

Modernizations

1913, Königsberg: was refitted, endurance raised to 5750(12)nm.

1918, Stuttgart: - 6 x 1 - 105/37, 8 x 1 - 52/52; + 2 x 1 - 88/45 SK L/45 C/13, 3 seaplanes.

Naval service

Königsberg was station ship at Dares-Salaam in German East Africa at the outbreak of the war, and after a brief commerce raiding career was blockaded in the Rufiji River in October 1914 where she was bombarded by British monitors in July 1915 and finally scuttled there 11.7.1915 by her crew. Nürnberg was part of the German East Asian squadron of Admiral Graf Spee and was sunk during the Battle of the Falkland Islands on 8 December 1914. Stuttgart served as gunnery training ship and with the German High Seas Fleet. Between February and May 1918 she was convened to a seaplane carrier. She was turned over to Great Britain after the war and scrapped in 1921. Stettin served with the High Seas Fleet from 1907, with the Submarine school from 1917, was delivered to Great Britain and scrapped in 1921-23 at Copenhagen.