Derfflinger (Derfflinger Class)

Laid down	30th March 1912
Launched	12th July 1913
Completed	N/A
Commissioned	1st September 1914
Fate	Scuttled: 21st June 1919 at Scapa Flow
Builders	Blohm & Voss, Hamburg Germany
Complement	1120
Dimensions
Displacement	26500 tons std 31000 tons max
Dimensions	690' 3" x 95' 1"
Draught	31' 5"
Armament
Main guns	8 x 12"/50 (2 x 4)
Secondary guns	12 x 5.9"/45 (12 x 1)
Torpedo tubes	4 x 19.7"
Other weapons	8 x 3.46"/45
Countermeasures	None
Armour	Turrets: 10.6" Belt: 11.8" Deck: 3.2" C.T.: 11.8"
Aircraft Facilities
Aircraft	None
Flightdeck	None
Hangar	None
Catapults	None
Arrestor system	None
Aviation fuel	None
Electronics Fit
Radar	None
Sonar	None
ECM	None
Other	N/A
Machinery
Engines	18 x Marine boilers 4 x Marine steam turbines
Power output	63000shp
Speed	26.5kts
Shafts	4
Range	5600NM @ 14kts
Fuel	N/A

Derfflinger was raised in August 1939 and as the Admiralty had repossessed salvage gear that was on loan to the salvors, she was moored upside down off Rysa Island. During an air raid on Scapa Flow, the battleship Iron Duke was badly damaged, and only saved by Derfflingers salvage crew.

She was towed to a scrapyard on the Clyde and scrapped in 1946.

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