The magazine Militär-politische Korrespondenz confirmed an item earlier published by the newspaper Berliner Tageblatt that the new German protected cruisers had a displacement of 19,200 tons and were larger as any cruiser built by foreign navies.(1) The Berliner Tageblatt congratulated the German cabinet with this decision since the sea war in East Asia made clear what happened with ships which were aged.(2) The ships until now build by Germany were mostly experiments and in some respects not better as the ships of Rodzjestwenski.(3) The new German battleship had according to the same newspaper a displacement of 20,000-21,000 tons. The newspaper hoped that that the armour belt was broadened and the top load decreased.
SMS Blücher
Nassau-class
1. The armoured cruiser Blücher? Laid down by the Kaiserliche Werft, Kiel on 21
February 1907, launched on 11 April 1908, commissioned on 1 October 1915 in the
Battle of the Doggerbank on 24 January 1915. She had a displacement of 15.842
(design)-17.500 (full load) tons.
2. The Russo-Japanese war between 8 February 1904 -5 September 1905 ) in which the Russian navy was nearly destroyed by the Japanese.
3. Zinovy Petrovich Rozhestvensky (11 November 1848-14 January 1909) who commanded the Russian Second Pacific squadron The former Baltic Fleet) during the war with Japan
4. The Nassau-class consisting of the SMS Nasau,
Westfalen, Rheinland and Posen with a displacement of 20.535 tons, all four laid down in 1907?
