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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
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-class aircraft carriers (3 P) ... Italian aircraft carrier Sparviero This page was last edited on 15 March 2013, at 23:35 (UTC). Text ...
Light fleet carrier CATOBAR: 1943–1956 Graf Zeppelin German Navy: Graf Zeppelin: Fleet carrier — Launched 1938, never completed. Guadalcanal US Navy: CVE-60 Casablanca: Escort carrier CATOBAR: 1943–1946 Ex-Astrolabe Bay. Captured U-505: Hamlin US Navy: CVE-15 Bogue: Escort carrier 1942–1942 [notes 3] Became HMS Stalker: Hancock US Navy ...
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The aircraft carrier I [Note 1] was the first planned aircraft carrier conversion project of the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) during World War I.The Imperial Navy had experimented previously with seaplane carriers, though these earlier conversions were too slow to operate with the High Seas Fleet and carried an insufficient number of aircraft.