An item reported that according to British magazines the large German cruiser indicated as ‘H’ laid down in December 1909 at Blohm&Voss a displacement had of 21.500 ton, a horsepower of 70.000 hp and a speed of 27,5 miles. Although a major part of the ship was armoured, was the thickness just 15cm. The artillery would consist pf 12-28cm/30,5cm guns of which 6 guns could fire straight ahead or afterwards and 10 guns by used in the broadside. The secondary armament would consist of 10-17cm guns, 14-8,8cm guns and 5 torpedo guns. The German press wrote that the supplied details were not correct.(1)
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1. This must be the battle cruiser Goeben which is laid down with the provisional name ‘H’ on 10 August 1909 and not in December. Moltke-class. Sister ship Moltke. Building ordered on 8 April 1909, laid down at the shipyard of Blohm&Voss, Hamburg, Germany on 28 August 1909, launched on 28 March 1911, commissioned on 2 July 1912, handed over to the Turkish government on 16 August 1914, renamed Yavuz Sultan Selim and commissioned in the Turkish navy. Decommissioned on 20 December 1950, renamed Yavuz in 1935, stricken on 14 November 1954 and finally broken up in 1973.
