Dresden 1918
| 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 |
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Displacement normal, t |
5620 |
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Displacement full, t |
7486 |
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Length, m |
155.5 oa 149.8 wl |
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Breadth, m |
14.2 |
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Draught, m |
6.43 deep load |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
2 Marine steam turbines, 14 Marine boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
31000 |
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Max speed, kts |
27.5 |
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Fuel, t |
coal 1100 + oil 800 Cöln: coal 1100 + oil 1050 |
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Endurance, nm(kts) |
5400(12) Cöln: 6000(12) |
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Armour, mm |
belt: 60 - 18, deck: 40 - 20, slopes: 60 - 40, glacises: 100, CT: 100, shields: 50, mine hold: 30 |
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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 |
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Complement |
559 |
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.
Cöln 1918
© Ivan Gogin, 2014