Moltke 1890
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Bismarck | Norddeutsche SB, Kiel | 1875 | 25.7.1877 | 27.8.1878 | hulk 9.1891 | ||
| Blücher | Norddeutsche SB, Kiel | 1876 | 20.9.1877 | 21.12.1878 | TS 8.1880, hulk 9.1906 | ||
| Stosch | 77 | Vulcan, Stettin | 1876 | 8.10.1877 | 3.1878 | TS 1888, discarded 5.1907 | |
| Moltke | Danzig KW | 1875 | 18.10.1877 | 16.4.1878 | TS 1891, discarded 10.1910 | ||
| Gneisenau | Danzig KW | 1877 | 4.9.1879 | 3.10.1880 | TS 1887, wrecked 16.12.1900 | ||
| Stein | 83 | Vulcan, Stettin | 1878 | 14.9.1879 | 3.10.1880 | TS 1888, hulk 5.1908 |
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Displacement normal, t |
Bismarck, Blücher: 2856 Stosch, Moltke, Gneisenau, Stein: 2843 |
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Displacement full, t |
Bismarck, Blücher: 3386 Stosch, Moltke, Gneisenau, Stein: 2994 |
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Length, m |
Bismarck, Blücher: 82.5 oa 72.2 wl Stosch, Moltke, Gneisenau, Stein: 82.0 oa 72.2 wl |
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Breadth, m |
13.7 |
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Draught, m |
Bismarck, Blücher: 5.68 mean 6.18 deep load Stosch, Moltke, Gneisenau, Stein: 5.20 mean 6.30 deep load |
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No of shafts |
1 (lifting screw) |
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Machinery |
1 HSE, 4 rectangular boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
2500 |
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Max speed, kts |
12.5 |
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Fuel, t |
coal 380 |
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Endurance, nm(kts) |
1940(10) |
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Armament |
16 x 1 - 149/22 RK L/22 C/72 |
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Complement |
404 |
Project history: Similar lo the Leipzigs but somewhat smaller.
Modernizations: 1880s, Bismarck: + 2 - 350 TT (bow)
1880s, Blücher: - 16 x 1 - 149/22; + 4 x 1 - 87/24 RK L/24 C/82, 13 x 5 - 37/27 RV L/30, 3 - 450 TT (1 bow, 2 beam), 4 - 350 TT (1 bow, 2 beam, 1 stern)
1880s, Stosch, Moltke: - 6 x 1 - 149/22; + 2 x 1 - 88/27 SK L/30 C/89, 6 x 5 - 37/27 RV L/30
1880s, Gneisenau: - 2 x 1 - 149/22; + 2 x 1 - 88/27 SK L/30 C/89, 6 x 5 - 37/27 RV L/30
1880s, Stein: - 4 x 1 - 149/22; + 2 x 1 - 88/27 SK L/30 C/89, 6 x 5 - 37/27 RV L/30
Naval service: Blücher, acted as a torpedo research and school ship. Apart from Blücher the rest of the class spent most of their service in foreign waters. All of the last four served as school ships. Gneisenau was still serving as such when wrecked 16.12.1900 on the mole at Malaga in a storm. Blücher was sold to be a coal hulk at Vigo; Moltke was broken up in 1920, as were Bismarck and Stein.
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