Graf Kuerschner Class Carrier

SMS Habentien, 1942
Class overview
Builders:	Germaniawerft-Steppuhn
Operators:	Kaiserliche-Marine
Preceded by:	Bauschinger Class
Succeeded by:	Sieg Class
Built:	1936-1939
In commission:	1939-1954
Planned:	3
Completed:	1
Cancelled:	2
Active:	0
Scrapped:	2
General characteristics
Type:	Fleet Carrier
Displacement:	32,630 tons full load
Length:	233.6 m (766 ft)
Beam:	29.2 m (96 ft)
Draught:	8.9 m (29 ft)
Propulsion:	4 x Hämmerli HFV432 boilers
Speed:	32.5 knots (60.2 km/h; 37.4 mph)
Range:	7,730 miles
Complement:	2,256
Armament:	8 × 12.7 cm SK33 L/45 4 x 10.5 cm SK27 anti-aircraft cannons 38 x 2.0 cm SK34 anti-aircraft guns
Aircraft carried:	81

The Graf Kürschner class was a planned series of three aircraft carriers designed and built by the Englean Kaiserreich during the Interwar Period. During this period of time, the Kaiserliche-Marine was considered the "dominant" military branch of the nation and therefore received the most funding and priority for unit development. Henceforth, the Graf Kürschner class was ordered as an augment to the previously built Bauschinger Class in 1936. Originally three vessels were aligned for construction, but increasing threats of invasion by the Damsmarian Empire and the separation of the Frasian Federation from the Kaiserreich reduced the resources available for further carrier development and so only one vessel was completed. This vessel, the SMS Graf Kürschner served in the Kaiserliche-Marine within the Corentian and Ophionese theatres of war. The vessel was deemed obsolete within the 1950s, and was decommissioned and sold for scrap in 1954.

Ships of the class

Pennant no.	Name	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned	Homeport	Fate
FZT-23	Graf Kürschner	3 March 1936	7 June 1939	9 December 1939	Kreishaufen	Decommissioned in 1954, sold for scrap.
FZT-24	Projekt 345	N/A