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SMS Seydlitz
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Image:SMS Seydlitz.jpg 300px|''Seydlitz'' underway c. 1914–1916
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!style="color: white; height: 30px; background:navy;"|Career
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Image:Germany-Jack-1903.svg 50px|Kaiserliche Marine Ensign
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|Shipyard:||
Blohm & Voss,
Hamburg
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|Ordered:||
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|Laid down:||
February 4,
1911
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|Launched:||
March 30,
1912
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|Commissioned:||
May 22,
1913
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|Fate:||scuttled
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|Struck:||
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!colspan="2" style="color: white; height: 30px; background:navy;"|General Characteristics
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|Displacement:||24,594 normal, 28,100 tons loaded
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|Length:||657 ft 11 in
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|Beam:||93 ft 6 in
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|Draught:||26 ft 11 in
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|Propulsion:||4 screws, Parsons
turbines, 63,000 hp
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|Speed:||26.5
knot (speed) knots
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|Range:||
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|Complement:||1,068
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|Armament:||10-11.2 in (284 mm) 50-
calibre guns (5x2)
12-5.9 in (150 mm) guns
12-3.45 in (88 mm) guns
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'''SMS ''Seydlitz''''' was a 25,000 ton
battlecruiser of the
Imperial German Navy, built at Hamburg, Germany, and commissioned in May
1913. She was named after
Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, a Prussian general during the reign of King
Frederick the Great
At the
Battle of Dogger Bank (1915),
24 January 1915, in
World War I SMS ''Seydlitz'' was the flagship of Admiral
Franz von Hipper. She was hit by a 13.5-inch shell from
HMS Lion (1910) HMS ''Lion'' which penetrated the working chamber of her after turret. The resulting explosion knocked out the rear turret and, due to an open door to the adjacent turret, knocked out that one as well, with the loss of the 160 men of the two turrets’ crews. Only the prompt action of her executive officer in flooding the magazines saved ''Seydlitz'' from a magazine explosion that would have destroyed the ship. At the
Battle of Jutland, a similar situation befell ''Lion''.
Image:SMS Seydlitz damage.jpg thumb|left|''Seydlitz'' was heavily damaged in the [[battle of Jutland.]]
At the Battle of Jutland in 1916 she fought in Hipper's battlecruiser squadron. Her gunfire led to the explosion of
HMS Queen Mary HMS ''Queen Mary''. ''Seydlitz'' was heavily damaged herself, being hit by twenty-one heavy shells and one torpedo and suffering 98 men killed and 55 injured. She shipped 5,000 tons of water, reducing her freeboard to almost nothing, but made it back to port.
After the armistice she was interned at
Scapa Flow where she was scuttled by her crew with the rest of the
High Seas Fleet on
21 June 1919. She was salvaged in
1928 and scrapped.
External links
{{Commons|SMS Seydlitz}}
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Photos of the ''Seydlitz''
Accounts of the battle of Jutland:
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by Moritz von Egidy, captain of SMS ''Seydlitz''
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by Richard Foerster, gunnery officer on the ''Seydlitz''
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Maritimequest SMS Seydlitz Photo Gallery
Category:World War I battleships of Germany SeydlitzCategory:World War I cruisers of Germany Seydlitz
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