The final wartime production class
Ten cruisers were planned around proven machinery and 15 cm guns, but only two entered service before the armistice.
7486 tMaximum displacement
155,5 mOverall length
29,3 knMaximum speed
559Complement
The full story
History of Ersatz Karlsruhe (A)
The Cöln II class was the last class of small cruisers build in Germany before the end of the war. They were the final development of a class of ships that started with the Bremen class in 1903 and was improved in the following years. A total of 10 ships were ordered, but only two of them, the Cöln II and the Dresden II (named after older small cruisers that were lost in the war) entered service very late in the war. Of the eight other ships, five more were launched, the last one was the Frauenlob II on 16.10.1918. All of the incomplete ships were broken down in the following years.
Constuction of the Ersatz Karlsruhe A only processed very slowly. The incomplete ship was scrapped in 1920.
At a glance
Technical profile
Dimensions, armament, protection and performance.
Dimensions
- Size (Max)
- 7486 t
- Length (Total)
- 155,5 m
- Length (Waterline)
- 149,8 m
- Beam
- 14,2 m
- Draft
- 6,01 m
- Crew
- 559
Armament
- 15 cm
- 8
- 8,8 cm
- 3
- 60 cm Torpedo tubes
- 4
- Mines
- 200
Machinery
- Shafts
- 2
- Turbines
- 2
- Type
- Geared turbines
Performance
- Total Performance
- 48708 shp
- Speed
- 29,3 kn
- Range
- 5400 miles at 12 kn
Construction record
Ersatz Karlsruhe (A)
- Laid down
- Kaiserliche Werft Kiel, 1916
- Fate
- scrapped 1920