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The German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin was the lead ship in a class of two carriers of the same name ordered by the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany.She was the only aircraft carrier launched by Germany and represented part of the Kriegsmarine ' s attempt to create a well-balanced oceangoing fleet, capable of projecting German naval power far beyond the narrow confines of the Baltic and North Seas.
Graf Zeppelin is launched, 8 December 1938.. After 1933, the Kriegsmarine began to examine the possibility of building an aircraft carrier. [1] Wilhelm Hadeler had been Assistant to the Professor of Naval Construction at the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg (now Technische Universität Berlin) for nine years when he was appointed to draft preliminary designs for an aircraft carrier in ...
Summary of the Graf Zeppelin class Ship Aircraft Displacement Propulsion Service Laid down Commissioned Fate Graf Zeppelin: 12 Bf 109 fighters 30 Ju 87 dive bombers [16] 33,550 long tons (34,088 t) [10] 4 shafts, 4 steam turbines, 33.8 kn (62.6 km/h; 38.9 mph) [6] 28 December 1936 [7] — Sunk as a target, 24 July 1947 [14] Flugzeugträger B
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The 15 cm SK C/28 [Note 1] was a German medium-caliber naval gun used during the Second World War.It served as the secondary armament for the Bismarck class and Scharnhorst-class battleships, Deutschland-class cruisers and the Graf Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers.
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Known simply as Graf Zeppelin (no numeral) as the original Graf Zeppelin had been retired. LZ 131 not finished Version of the Hindenburg-class airship extended by 18 m (59 ft) to 263 m (863 ft) for around 80 passengers. Only a few frame rings were constructed before it was scrapped in May 1940. LZ 132 Project abandoned