An item referred to the Journal R.U.S.J. reporting that the new German armoured cruiser1st class SMS Von der Tann, the first German dreadnought and which with success executed the yards trials now was prepared for the official trial. During the yards trials on the North Sea developed the turbines 71.500 hp which was far above the contracted horsepower and achieving a maximum speed of 27,6 miles, more as 2 miles above the contracted speed of 25 miles. The magazine Schiffbau reported that during measured mile trial off Neukrug a maximum speed of 27,398 miles was achieved.(1)
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1. Laid down at the shipyard of Blohm&Voss, Hamburg, Germany on 21 March 1908, launched on 20 March 1909, baptized on 1 September 1910, commissioned on 20 March 1909, interned after the First World War at Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands, Scotland but scuttled by her own crew to prevent that she fell into British hands on 21 June 1919 and in the 1930s raised and broken up at Rosyth. Her homeport Was Kiel, Germany
