(Vanilla) Flugzeugträger Graf Zeppelin
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A simplified version of this ship has become a preset ship in the game.
The aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin was the lead ship in a class of two carriers of the same name ordered by the Kriegsmarine of Germany. She was the only aircraft carrier launched by Germany and represented part of the Kriegsmarine’s attempt to create a well-balanced oceangoing fleet, capable of projecting German naval power far beyond the narrow confines of the Baltic and North Seas. The carrier would have had a complement of 42 fighters and dive bombers.
Construction on Graf Zeppelin began on 28 December 1936, when her keel was laid down at the Deutsche Werke shipyard in Kiel. Named in honor of Graf (Count) Ferdinand von Zeppelin, the ship was launched on 8 December 1938, and was 85% complete by the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. Graf Zeppelin was not completed and was never operational due to shifting construction priorities necessitated by the war. She remained in the Baltic for the duration of the war; with Germany’s defeat imminent, the ship’s custodian crew scuttled her just outside Stettin in March 1945. The Soviet Union raised the ship in March 1946, and she was ultimately sunk in weapons tests north of Poland 17 months later. The wreck was discovered by a Polish survey ship in July 2006.
We created this ship according to the official blueprints on the Bundesarchiv Militärarchiv.
(Data as if Project 1942)
Standard displacement: 24,500 tonnes
Construction displacement: 28,090 tonnes
Operational displacement: 33,550 tonnes
Length at waterline/overall: 250.0m/262.5m
Width at waterline: 31.5m
Draft at construction displacement: 7.35m
Draft at operational displacement: 8.5m
Side height: 22.5m
Flight deck length: 244.0m
Flight deck maximum width: 30.0m
Flight deck height over waterline: 15.6m
Power plant performance: 200,000HP
Number of shafts: 4
Number of boilers: 16
Maximum Speed: 33.8 knots
Heating oil maximum capacity: 6740 tonnes
Range: 8000 nm/19 knots
Crew: 1720+306
Armament
16 x 15cm SK C/28 in MPL C/36 mounts (8 x II)
12 x 10,5cm SK C/33 in Dop.L. C/37 mounts (6 x II)
22 x 3,7cm SK C/30 in Dopp LC/30 mounts (11x II)
28 x 2cm Flakvierling C/38 in quadruple C/38 mounts (7 x IV)
Aircraft
(In project 1938/39): Bf/Me 109T-1, Ju 87C, Fi 167
(In project 1942): Me 155, Ju 87 D-4/E-1
6555 parts, 1130 physical parts included.
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1. Bundesarchiv Militärarchiv
2. The German Aircraft Carrier Graf Zeppelin (Siegfried Breyer)
3. German and Italian Aircraft Carriers of World War II (Ryan K. Noppen, Douglas C. Dildy)
4. ENCYKLOPEDIA OKRĘTÓW WOJENNYCH 42, Graf Zeppelin (Siegfried Breyer)
5. https://www.bilibili.com/opus/840830235786084392/?from=readlist
6. https://www.bilibili.com/opus/802885672911241234/?from=readlist
