Surgarten-class cruiser
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_underway_off_the_coast_of_Massachusetts_on_18_June_1943_(NH_91450).jpg) SMS Reichsgraf Himmelberg underway, 1943
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| Class overview | |
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| Builders: | Germaniawerft Schiffbau |
| Operators: |
 Kaiserliche-Marine |
| Preceded by: | Bischofzach-class cruiser |
| Succeeded by: | Richtendorf-class cruiser |
| Built: | 1933-1937 |
| In commission: | 1935-1953 |
| Planned: | 5 |
| Completed: | 4 |
| Cancelled: | 1 |
| Active: | 0 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Light cruiser |
| Displacement: | 9,960 tons full load |
| Length: | 181.3 m (595 ft) |
| Beam: | 16.3 m (53 ft) |
| Draft: | 5.74 m (18.8 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 60,000 shp (45 MW) turbines + 12,400 hp (9.3 MW) diesels |
| Speed: | 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph) |
| Complement: | 26 officers, 508 enlisted |
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Belt armor: 50 mm (2.0 in) Deck: 30 mm (1.2 in) Conning tower: 100 mm (3.9 in) Turrets: 80 mm (3.1 in) Barbettes: 60 mm (2.4 in) |
| Aircraft carried: | 2 |
| Aviation facilities: | 2x stern catapults |
The Surgarten-class cruiser, sometimes referred to in foreign literature as the S-class, was a class of light cruisers of the Englean Imperial Navy. The class was designed to supplement the limited number of Bischofzach class cruisers currently in service with the Imperial Navy, and was to be more heavily armed to compete with foreign vessels at the time. The vessels served with the Englean Atlantikflotte and the Pazifikflotte against the Empire of the Tao during the Second Great War.
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