SMS Von der Tann. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Torpedo net sketch dated August 1912. Bundesarchiv RM-3-322
Moltke-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Nassau-class battleships. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Preceded by Moltke-class. Kaiser Wilhelm II ordered on 17 May 1906 a design competition for a fast battleship with a minimum of4-28cm/11” guns using the Nassau-class battleships design as basis, laid down at the shipyard of Blohm&Voss, Hamburg, Germany on 21 March 1908, launched on 20 March 1909, commissioned on 1 September 1910, 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 between 1931-1934. Her homeport was Kiel, Germany.
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