Sieg class Carrier
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SMS Engleanischer Sieg underway, 1956
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Class overview | |
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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: |
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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 |
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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. |