Schirlitz Class Carrier

SMS Schirlitz, 1925
Class overview
Builders:	Germaniawerft
Operators:	Kaiserliche-Marine
Preceded by:	SMS Germania
Succeeded by:	Bauschinger Class
Built:	1921-1924
In commission:	1924-1943
Planned:	1
Completed:	1
Lost:	1
General characteristics
Type:	Aircraft Carrier
Displacement:	28,900 tons
Length:	182.6 m (599 ft)
Beam:	35.2 m (115 ft)
Draught:	9.3 m (31 ft)
Propulsion:	4 x Germaniawerft GMNH-23 boilers 2 x steam turbines 2 x steam engines
Speed:	21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
Range:	8,100 miles
Complement:	800
Armament:	8 x 10.5 cm SK14 C/38 guns 16 x 15 mm MG-023 guns
Aircraft carried:	35

The Schirlitz class was an aircraft carrier designed and built by the Englean Kaiserreich after the First Great War, being the first true aircraft carrier built by the Kaiserreich after the SMS Germania in 1918. The SMS Schirlitz was originally designed as a Projekt 1128 class battleship, but instead was directed to become an aircraft carrier. After the affects of carrier-borne aircraft in the First Great War, the Kaiserliche-Marine decided that this form of aerial warfare would be ever-present within the future and that the Kaiserreich would need to adopt this strategy in order to retain dominance in Eastern Corentia. Construction of the vessel began in 1921 and the vessel was commissioned in 1924. The Schirlitz would continue to serve in the Kaiserliche-Marine until 1943, when it was sunk in battle against naval forces of the Empire of the Tao when conducting operations with Aznazian and Rhodeve forces in the Ophionese theatre.