Sieg class Carrier

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SMS Engleanischer Sieg underway, 1956
Class overview
Builders: Germaniawerft Schiffbau
Operators:  Kaiserliche-Marine
Preceded by: Graf Kürschner Class
Succeeded by: Schildhauer Class
Built: 1944-1946
In commission: 1946-1985
Planned: 5
Completed: 2
Cancelled: 3
Active: 0
Scrapped: 2
General characteristics
Type: Fleet Carrier
Displacement: 27,100 tons
Length: 271 m (889 ft)
Beam: 28 m (92 ft)
Draught: 8.71 m (28.6 ft)
Propulsion: 8 x Hämmerli HFV467 boilers
Speed: 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph)
Complement: 3,345
Armament:
  • 4 × 12.7 cm SK42 cannons
  • 4 x 10.5 cm SK39 anti-aircraft cannons
  • 8 x 4.0 cm SK33 anti-aircraft guns
  • 46 x 2.0 cm FlaK 37 anti-aircraft guns
  • 4 x Stargaard X56B7 surface-to-air launchers
  • 2 x Meeräsche launchers (1955 refit, replaced X56B7 launchers)
Aircraft carried: 88

The Sieg class was a series of two aircraft carriers built by the Englean Kaiserreich to serve as fleet carriers during the Second Great War. These carriers were designed to serve as augments to the Graf Kürschner Class which had been in service since 1939, as well as the various smaller carriers serving in the Kaiserliche-Marine during the war. The two ships, SMS Engleanischer Sieg ("Englean Victory") and the SMS Aygon served as the primary fleet carriers of the Englean Kaiserreich until the completion of the Schildhauer class in the early 1960s. Both carriers would be decommissioned by the end of the 1980s, by which the newest fleet carriers of the Kaiserreich had been completed - the nuclear-powered Lüderitz Class.

History

Design and Construction

Postwar Years

Ships of the class

Pennant no. Name Laid down Launched Commissioned Homeport Fate
FZT-39 Engleanischer Sieg 2 February 1944 7 June 1946 8 September 1946 Kreishaufen Decommissioned in 1968, sold to Donghai in 1969.
FZT-40 Aygon 30 July 1944 10 August 1946 22 November 1946 Kreishaufen Decommissioned in 1985, sold for scrap.