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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
The LZ 128 was similar to the LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin, but shorter and wider. Designed as a passenger airship to carry 25 passengers and 10 tons of cargo, the LZ 128 was cancelled in 1930 due to the crash of the R101, the dangers of hydrogen being made clear. LZ 129 Hindenburg (first Hindenburg class airship) civilian
German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin; P. German aircraft carrier Peter Strasser This page was last edited on 2 April 2018, at 00:23 (UTC). Text ...
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 ...
Graf Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers (3 P) ... Italian aircraft carrier Sparviero This page was last edited on 15 March 2013, at 23:35 (UTC). Text ...
12.1 Aircraft carriers. 12.2 Heavy cruisers. 12.3 Destroyers. 12.4 Torpedo boats. 13 See also. ... Graf Zeppelin class Graf Zeppelin, Laid down 1936, commissioned ...