Stettin 1912
Stuttgart 1918
| 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 |
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Displacement normal, t |
Königsberg: 3390 Nürnberg, Stuttgart: 3469 Stettin: 3480 |
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Displacement full, t |
Königsberg: 3814 Nürnberg: 3902 Stuttgart: 4002 Stettin: 3822 |
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Length, m |
Königsberg: 115.3 oa 114.8 wl Nürnberg, Stuttgart, Stettin: 117.4 oa 116.8 wl |
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Breadth, m |
Königsberg: 13.2 Nürnberg, Stuttgart, Stettin: 13.3 |
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Draught, m |
Königsberg: 5.29 deep load Nürnberg: 5.24 deep load Stuttgart: 5.40 deep load Stettin: 5.14 deep load |
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No of shafts |
Königsberg, Nürnberg, Stuttgart: 2 Stettin: 4 |
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Machinery |
Königsberg, Nürnberg, Stuttgart: 2 VTE, 11 Marine boilers Stettin: 4 Parsons steam turbines, 11 Marine boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
Königsberg, Nürnberg, Stuttgart: 13200 Stettin: 13500 |
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Max speed, kts |
Königsberg, Nürnberg, Stuttgart: 23 Stettin: 24 |
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Fuel, t |
Königsberg: coal 820 Nürnberg, Stuttgart, Stettin: coal 880 |
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Endurance, nm(kts) |
Nürnberg, Stuttgart: 4120(12) Stettin: 4170(12) |
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Armour, mm |
steel / Krupp steel - deck: 30 - 20, slopes: 80 - 45, glacises: 100, CT: 100, shields: 50 |
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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) |
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Complement |
322 |
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.
Königsberg 1907
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