L 20e α was a design for a class of battleships to be built in 1918 for the German Kaiserliche Marine during World War I. The ships would have been significantly larger than the preceding Bayern-class battleships, at 238 m long, compared to 180 m for the preceding ships. They would have had a top speed of 26 knots compared to the 21-knot maximum of the Bayerns and would have mounted guns larger than 38 cm. Work on the design was completed by September 1918, but by then there was no chance for them to be build. None were built and none were displaced by the end of the war, which displaced all the other ships in the German fleet at the time of
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L 20e α was a design for a class of battleships to be built in 1918 for the German Kaiserliche Marine during World War I. The ships would have been significantly larger than the preceding Bayern-class battleships, at 238 m long, compared to 180 m for the preceding ships. They would have had a top speed of 26 knots compared to the 21-knot maximum of the Bayerns and would have mounted guns larger than 38 cm. Work on the design was completed by September 1918, but by then there was no chance for them to be build. None were built and none were displaced by the end of the war, which displaced all the other ships in the German fleet at the time of the attack on Paris in 1914. The L 20E α class was never completed and was scrapped in 1918 after the defeat of the French at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916. It was the last German battleship to be completed before the outbreak of the First World War in July 1914. A variety of proposals were submitted, with armament ranging from the same eight 38-cm guns of theBayern class to eight 42 cm guns. The designs included versions with the standard twin-gun turrets favored by the German navy, along with variants with both twin and quadruple turrets similar to the French Normandie- class battleships that had been laid down in 1913.
The plans were shelved when the war broke out and work on new battleship designs resumed in early 1916, but were not completed until September 1918. The design was approved by the Reichsmarine State Secretary Eduard von Capamtamtard on 11 December 1916 and was approved on 29 December 1916, though none of the designs were built. The battleships were the same size as the Ersatz Yorck-class battlecruisers and had the same armament of eight 38 cm guns, but they would haveHad a topSpeed of 25 to 26 knots compared to 29 to 29. 5 knots speeds of the ERSatz Yorcks and heavier armor. They were the first German warships to have mounted gun larger than 42 cm and would be capable of speeds of up to 50,000 knots, all on a displacement up to 32,000 metric tons. The ships were to have been the first to have a belt 350mm thick and an armored belt 350 mm thick, and were to be able to carry up to 8,000 tons of ammunition. The German fleet was expanding to challenge British control of the seas, under the direction of Vizeadmiral Alfred von Tirpitz.
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