SMS Von der Tann. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Torpedo net sketch dated August 1912. Bundesarchiv RM-3-322
SMS Seydlitz. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.co
Molte-class consisted of the Moltke and Goeben preceded by SMS Von der Tann and succceeded by SMS Seydlitz.
SMS Moltke, contract awarded under conaarct name “Cruiser G”on 17 September 1908, laid down by Blohm&Voss, Hamburg, Germany on 23 January 1909, launched on 7 April 1910, commissioned on 30 September 1911, scuttled at Scape Flow on 21 June 1919, raised in 1927 and broken up between 1927-1929.
SMS Goeben, ordered under contract name “H” on 8 April 1909, laid down by Blohm&Voss, Hamburg, Germany on 12 August 1909, launched on 28 March 1911, commissioned on 2 July 1912, transferred to the Ottoman Empire on 16 August 1914, renamed Yavuz Sultan Selim, renamed TCG Yavuz in 1936, decommissioned on 20 December 1950, stricken on 14 November 1954 and broken up between 1973-1976.
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