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SMS Graudenz

History
German Empire
Name: Graudenz
Namesake: City of Graudenz
Builder: Kiel Navy Yard
Laid down: 1912
Launched: 25 October 1913
Commissioned: 10 August 1914
Struck: 10 March 1920
Fate: Ceded to Italy in 1920
Italy
Name: Ancona
Namesake: City of Ancona
Acquired: 1 June 1920
Struck: 11 March 1937
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type: Graudenz-class cruiser
Displacement:
  • Design: 4,912 t (4,834 long tons; 5,415 short tons)
  • Full load: 6,382 t (6,281 long tons; 7,035 short tons)
Length: 142.7 m (468 ft 2 in)
Beam: 13.8 m (45 ft 3 in)
Draft: 5.75 m (18 ft 10 in)
Propulsion:
Speed: 27.5 kn (50.9 km/h)
Range: 5,500 nmi (10,200 km; 6,300 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Crew:
  • 21 officer
  • 364 enlisted men
Armament:
  • As built:
  • 12 × 10.5 cm SK L/45 guns
  • 2 × 50 cm torpedo tubes
  • After refit:
  • 7 × 15 cm SK L/45 guns
  • 2 × 8.8 cm SK L/45 anti-aircraft guns
  • 4 × 50 cm torpedo tubes
  • 120 mines
Armor:
  • Belt: 60 mm (2.4 in)
  • Deck: 60 mm

SMS Graudenz was the lead ship of her class of light cruisers. She had one sister ship, SMS Regensburg. The ship was built by the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) in the Kaiserliche Werft shipyard in Kiel, laid down in 1912 and commissioned into the High Seas Fleet in August 1914, days after the outbreak of World War I. She was named for the then-German town of Graudenz (now Grudziądz, Poland). The ship was armed with a main battery of twelve 10.5 cm SK L/45 guns and had a top speed of 27.5 knots (50.9 km/h; 31.6 mph).

Graudenz saw extensive service during World War I, including serving as part of the reconnaissance screen for the battlecruisers of the I Scouting Group during the raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby in December 1914. The ship also took part in the Battle of Dogger Bank in January 1915, and the Battle of the Gulf of Riga in August 1915. She had been damaged by a mine and was unable to participate in the Battle of Jutland in May 1916. She was assigned to the planned final operation of the High Seas Fleet in October 1918, weeks before the end of the war, but a major mutiny forced the cancellation of the plan. After the end of the war, the ship was ceded to Italy as a war prize and commissioned into the Italian Navy as Ancona; she remained in service until 1937 when she was stricken and broken up for scrap.


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