Shipbucket

You know, the one before...

SMS Deutschland

The Deutschland-class battleships were the last of the German pre-dreadnoughts and followed the Braunschweig-class. Designed in 1901/02, they were very similar to their predecessors, as those had already reached the limit of the Kiel Channel, the limiting factor for German Navy designs. The notable differences were the partially covered funnels and the larger space between funnels and the main mast. The main artillery were four 280mm guns in twin turrets, fourteen 170mm guns in single mount casemates, twenty 88mm guns in single mounts and six 450mm underwater torpedo tubes (one front, one aft, two on each side). The 170mm medium artillery was an increase of the 150mm guns of the Braunschweig-class and followed the international trend of increasing the medium-weight artillery on battleships, however the guns were still manually loaded, which put an additional strain on the crew.

Deutschland, ordered as “N”, was laid down on 20th July, 1903 at the Germania Shipyards in Kiel, launched on November 19th, 1904 and commissioned on August 3rd, 1906 as the new flagship of the German Navy. Her sisters soon followed over the next two years and made up the II Division. However, at this point the HMS Dreadnought had already changed the playing field, the first German counterparts were already under construction and the Kiel Channel, which had limited the Deutschland’s design, was enlarged as well.

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Any help and source material is always welcome.

As always with your German vessels drawings; a real gem

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Work in progress:
DD County Class PNS Babur (1982)(PAK)
FF Type 21 Class D182 PNS Babur (2000)(PAK)
All relevant Coat of Arms

Lovely work as usual DG.

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Sources and documentations are the most welcome.

-Koko Kyouwakoku (Republic of Koko)
-Koko's carrier-based aircrafts of WWII
-Koko Kaiun Yuso Kaisha - KoKaYu Line (Koko AU spinoff)
-Koko - Civil Aviation

Absolutely beautiful!

Will we see (as the threads' title suggests ) her famous sisters aswell?

Awesome

Hello everyone!

sublime... nearly salivated over my keyboard...

Greetings
GD

Awesome!

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MS State Guard - 08 March 2014 - 28 January 2023

The Official IJN Ships & Planes List

#FJB

Indeed exelent and I also would like to see the rest of the class

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Shipbucket mainsite, aka "The Archive"
New AU project "Aravala"

This is excellent beyond words, the underwater hull shading looks spot on, the bow casemates look sublime and everything else is equally well detailed and coloured.
A masterpiece and I'm sure there will be more to follow.

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Hood's Worklist
English Electric Canberra FD
Interwar RN Capital Ships
Super-Darings
Never-Were British Aircraft

Great work

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best regards
Martin

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