The Dutch magazine De Prins dated 2 June 1928 page 273 published the photo below of the wreck of the Moltke underway from Scapa Flow to Rosyth to be broken up.
Earlier was in another Dutch newspaper Het Centrum dated 7 March 1912 something else reported. The German newspaper Kölnische Zeitung said that the ministers of the federal states were coming to Berlin to discuss with the Reichs Chancellor and the Federal minister of finance the new army and navy budgets. This German newspaper also reported using the most official tone that the tiding that the navy intended to transfer the scout squadron of the High Seas Fleet from 4 large and 6 small cruisers on 1 April from Kiel towards Wilhelmshaven and to station permanently in the North Sea wasn’t correct regarded the number of ships and the date. What was considered was to investigate if it was not better to station later some large cruisers at Wilhelmshaven instead of at Kiel.
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1. An armoured cruiser named after Albrecht von Roon. Her building was allowed by the second naval law in 1902 as the “Ersatz Kaiser“, laid down at the Imperial yard at Kiel in August 1902 with building number 28, launched on 27 June 1903, building costs 15.345.000 Goldmarks, commissioned on 5 April 1906, decommissioned in 1911 and again in service 3 years later, in 1916 disarmed and fitted out as a training and accommodation ship at Kiel, plans in 1918 to rebuilt her as a seaplane carrier were not carried out, stricken on 25 November 1920 and broken up in 1921 at Kiel-Nordmole. With a displacement of 9,533 (normal)-10,104 (full load) tons were her dimensions 128 x 20,22 x 7,8 metres or 419’ x 66.33’ x25.5’. The 3 triple expansion engines provided 19,000 shp allowing a speed of 21 knots. With a coal bunker capacity of 1,630 tons and a speed of 12 knots she had a range of 5,080 nautical miles. Her crew numbered 633 men. The armament consisted of 2x2-21cm guns, 10x1-15cm guns, 14x1-8,8cm guns and 4-45cm submerged torpedo tubes (1x bow, 1xstern and 2x1 beam). The armour consisted of a 15cm belt, a 3,8-6,4cm deck while the front side of the turrets were protected by 18cm armour. In the Dutch magazine Gelderland in woord en beeld dated 1 June 1928 page 147 was also a photo published of the wreck of the Moltke underway to be broken up.
2. The Dutch newspaper Het Nieuws van de Dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië dated 9 April 1910 reported that day that at Hamburg a so-called turbine cruiser of a new design called Moltke was launched which was even faster and powerful as the British Invincible class cruisers. She was named after Helmuth von Moltke the Elder. Her building was ordered on 17 September 1908, she was laid down at the yard of Blohm&Voss, Hamburg, Germany on 7 December of the same year, launched on 7 April 1910 while baptised by Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, commissioned on 30 August a year later and finally scuttled by her own crew at Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919. In 1927 finally salvaged and broken up at Rosyth in 1929. She was of the Moltke-class battle cruisers with as sister ship the Goeben, the latter later becoming the Turkish Yavuz Sultan Selim or Yavuz. This class was an improved Von der Tann design. With a displacement of 22,979 (design)-25,400 (full load) were her dimensions 186,6 x 30 x 9,2 metres or 612’ x 98’ x 30’. The Parsons turbines supplied 52,000 hp (design)-85,782 hp (maximum) allowing a speed of 25,5 (design)-28,4 (maximum) knots while driven four screws. With a speed of 14 knots she had a range of 4,120 nautical miles. Her crew numbered 1,053 men. The armament consisted of 5x2-28cm guns, 12x15cm guns and 12-8,8cm guns. The armour consisted of a 100-280mm thick belt, 230mm barbettes, a 25,4-76,2mm thick deck while the gun turrets were protected by 230mm and the conning tower by 350mm. The Dutch newspaper Het Nieuws van den dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië dated 26 December 1911 wrote that this turbine battle cruiser was the fastest warship of her time with her 50,000 hp and a speed of 29,7 miles (4,2 miles above the contracted speed) during her trials. She was now even faster as the Von der Tann with 43,600 hp and a speed of 28,124 miles. The engines of the Moltke were the largest of all placed in armoured cruisers.
3. Battle cruiser named after Ludwig von der Tann. In August 1906 was started to design her as the “Cruiser F”. Ordered on 26 September 1907, laid down at the yard of Blohm&Vos, Hamburg, Germany on 21 March 1908, launched on 20 March a year later, commissioned on 1 September 1910, scuttled by her own crew at Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919, salvaged in in 1930 and broken up at Rosyth in 1931-1934. With a displacement of 19,370 tons/21,350 short tons (planned)-21,300tons/23,500 short tons (full load) were her dimensions 171,7 x 26,6 x 8,91 (design)-9,17 (full load) metres or 563’ x 87’ x29.2’-30.1’. The Parsons steam turbines and 18 Schultz Thornycroft boilers supplied 43,600 shp allowing a speed of 24,8 (design)-27,75 (maximum) knots and with a coal bunker capacity of 2,760 tons and a speed of 14 knots she had a range of 4,400 nautical miles. Her crew numbered 923 men. The armament consisted of 4x2-28cm guns, 10-15cm guns, 16-8,8cm guns and 4-45xm torpedo tubes 91x bow, 2xbeam and 1xstern). The armour consisted of a 80-250mm belt, 25mm torpedo bulkheads while the conning tower was protected by 250mm and the fronts of the gun turrets by 230mm.
4. Sister ship of the Roon. Named after Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg. Laid down at the yard of Blohm&Voss, Hamburg, Germany in February 1903, launched on 14 May 1904, commissioned in November a year later, sunk when she accidentally hit German mines on 4 November 1914 while returning from an attack on Yarmouth and broken up which was carried out in 1929-1930, 1965 and which ended in 1982.
