Moltke was the lead ship of the Moltke-class battlecruisers of the German Imperial Navy. The ship was named after the 19th-century German Field Marshal Helmuth von M Holtke. She took part in most of the major fleet actions conducted by the German Navy during the First World War. She met her end when she was scuttled, along with the rest of the High Seas Fleet, in 1919 to prevent them from falling into Allied hands. The wreck of the ship was raised in 1927 and scrapped at Rosyth from 1927 to 1929.
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Moltke was the lead ship of the Moltke-class battlecruisers of the German Imperial Navy. The ship was named after the 19th-century German Field Marshal Helmuth von M Holtke. She was armed with a main battery of ten 28 cm SK L50 gunss mounted in five twin-gun turrets; of these, one was placed forward, two were en echelon amidships, and the other two were in a superfiring pair aft. She took part in most of the major fleet actions conducted by the German Navy during the First World War, including the Battles of Dogger Bank and Jutland in 1915 and 1916. She met her end when she was scuttled, along with the rest of the High Seas Fleet, in 1919 to prevent them from falling into Allied hands. The wreck of the ship was raised in 1927 and scrapped at Rosyth from 1927 to 1929. The contract for the ship, which was awarded on September 17, 1908, was awarded under the building number 200. On 7 April 1910, the ship launched as SMS GCruiser G and was commissioned on 30 September 1911, as SMS Moltk. Moltak and her sister ship Goeben were the second battlecruiser of the Imperial Navy, and were significantly larger and better armored than their British rivals, the Indefatigable class. The German Kaiserliche Marine continued in its arms race with the British Royal Navy in 1907, with two ships authorized for the 1908 and 1909 building years; MoltK was the first, followed by Goeban.
The ships were laid down in 1908 and the keel was laid down on 7 December 1908, with the ship launching on April 7, 1910. At the end of the mid-19th century, the German Army commissioned the ship as the G-Cruiser, launching the ship on April 19, 1911. The G-cruiser was the second ship of its kind to be built, the first being the SMS Von der Tann, which had been built in 1903. The M-class was designed to compete with the British Indefatigate class, which were designed to be more powerful and more heavily armored. The main battery had 230 mm faces, and they sat atop barbettes that were equally thick atop the barbettes. The Krupp cemented steel. belt was 280 mm thick where it covered the ship’s ammunition magazines and propulsion machinery spaces. At 14 knots, the ship had a range of 4,120 nautical miles. Her crew consisted on 43 officers and 1,010 enlisted men. She had a beam of 29. 4 m and a draft of 9. 19 m fully loaded. The propulsion system was rated at 51,289 shp and a top speed of 25. 5 knots. The ship displaced 22,979 t normally, and 25,400 t at full load.
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