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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 ...
Graf Zeppelin: Fleet carrier — Started 1938, cancelled 1939. Proposed name was Peter Strasser. Flugzeugträger C German Navy: Graf Zeppelin: Fleet carrier — Cancelled 1938 before construction began. Flugzeugträger D German Navy: Graf Zeppelin: Fleet carrier — Cancelled 1938 before construction began. Foch French Navy: R99 Clemenceau ...
The Navy therefore selected several vessels to be converted into auxiliary aircraft carriers in May 1942, including the passenger ship SS Europa, operated by Norddeutscher Lloyd. As designed, the proposed conversion project would have been larger than even the purpose-built Graf Zeppelin class. She would have had a complement of 42 fighters and ...
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.
Pages in category "Graf Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Production number Class Tactical numbering First flight Remarks Fate Image LZ 26: N: Z XII 14 December 1914 Z XII made 11 attacks in northern France and at the eastern front, dropping 20,000 kg (44,000 lb) of bombs; by the summer of 1915 Z 12 had dropped around 9,000 kg (20,000 lb) of bombs on the Warsaw to Petrograd trunk railway line between the stations at Malkina and Białystok.
Graf Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers (3 P) Pages in category "Aircraft carriers of the Kriegsmarine" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
German aircraft carrier I (1915) German aircraft carrier I (1942) German aircraft carrier II; German destroyer Z51; German FK cruiser designs; German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin; Graf Zeppelin-class aircraft carrier