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The H class was a series of battleship designs for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine, which were intended to fulfill the requirements of Plan Z in the late 1930s and early 1940s. . The first variation, "H-39", called for six ships to be built, essentially as enlarged Bismarck-class battleships with 40.6 cm (16 in) guns and diesel propulsi
These figures included the four Scharnhorst- and Bismarck-class battleships already built or building, the three Deutschland-class panzerschiffe and the six light cruisers already in service. [11] To complete the core of the Plan Z fleet, six H-class battleships, three O-class battlecruisers , twelve P-class panzerschiffe , and two Graf ...
The H-class was a series of battleship designs to fulfill the requirements of Plan Z in the late 1930s and early 1940s. The first variation, "H-39", called for six ships to be built, essentially as enlarged Bismarck-class battleships with 40.6 cm (16.0 in) guns. The "H-41" design improved the "H-39" ship with still larger main guns, with eight ...
Plan Z — a 1939 strategic plan for military shipbuilding by the Kriegsmarine (Nazi German navy). Pages in category "Plan Z" ... H. H-class battleship proposals; M.
This is the category of ships of the various German navies which have been proposed, ordered, laid down, or launched, but never (or not yet) completed. Pages in category "Proposed ships of Germany" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.
The planned naval program was not very far advanced by the time World War II began. In 1939 two M-class cruisers and two H-class battleships were laid down and parts for two further H-class battleships and three O-class battlecruisers were in production. The strength of the German fleet at the beginning of the war was not even 20% of Plan Z.
The 40.6 cm SK C/34, [Note 1] sometimes known as the Adolfkanone (Adolf gun), was a German naval gun, designed in 1934 by Krupp and originally intended for the early H-class battleships. Description [ edit ]
SMS Schleswig-Holstein [a] (pronounced [ˌʃleːsvɪç ˈhɔlʃtaɪn] ⓘ) was the last of the five pre-dreadnought Deutschland-class battleships built by the German Kaiserliche Marine. The ship, named for the province of Schleswig-Holstein , was laid down in the Germaniawerft dockyard in Kiel in August 1905 and commissioned into the fleet ...