German battlecruiser Seydlitz

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The German battlecruiser Seydlitz was a prominent Imperial German Navy warship of World War I, noted for its heavy armament, speed, and remarkable survivability in major North Sea engagements.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Imperial German Navy ship
battlecruiser
warship
armamentMain 10 × 28 cm SK L/50 guns
armamentSecondary 12 × 15 cm SK L/45 guns
12 × 8.8 cm guns (as built)
armorBelt up to 300 mm
armorDeck up to about 80 mm
armorTurrets up to 230 mm
beam 28.5 m
builder Blohm & Voss
capturedBy British Home Fleet
surface form: Royal Navy (interned at Scapa Flow)
commissioned 1913-05-22
conflict World War I
country German Empire
crewComplement about 1,100 officers and men
dateOfScuttling 1919-06-21
decommissioned 1919-10-29
displacementFullLoad about 28,500 tons
displacementStandard about 24,600 tons
draft 9.29 m
era early 20th century
fate scuttled at Scapa Flow
followedBy Derfflinger class
surface form: Derfflinger-class battlecruiser
hullNumber not formally used (German practice)
laidDown 1911-02-04
launched 1912-03-30
lengthOverall 200.6 m
locationOfScuttling Scapa Flow
surface form: Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands
mainBatteryLayout 5 twin turrets
namedAfter Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz
navalFleet High Seas Fleet
notableEvent heavily damaged at Jutland in 1916
severely damaged at Dogger Bank in 1915
notableFeature high survivability despite heavy damage
operator Imperial German Navy
powerOutput about 63,000 shp
precededBy Moltke-class battlecruiser
propulsion coal-fired boilers
oil-fired boilers
steam turbines
shaftCount 4
shipClass Seydlitz-class battlecruiser
shipyard Blohm & Voss shipyard, Hamburg
survivedEngagement Battle of Dogger Bank
Battle of Jutland
theaterOfOperations North Sea
tookPartIn Battle of Dogger Bank
Battle of Jutland
Raid on Yarmouth (1914)
surface form: Bombardment of Yarmouth and Lowestoft

Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby
topSpeed about 26.5 knots
torpedoTubes 4 × 50 cm submerged torpedo tubes

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Battle of Dogger Bank participant German battlecruiser Seydlitz
Franz von Hipper commanded German battlecruiser Seydlitz
this entity surface form: battlecruiser SMS Seydlitz