The Derfflinger class was a class of three battlecruisers of the German Kaiserliche Marine. The ships were ordered for the 1912–1913 Naval Building Program of the German Imperial Navy as a reply to th
Derfflinger's forward gun turrets
Hindenburg being launched, on 1 August 1915
Queen Mary's magazines detonate
Hindenburg (center) and Derfflinger (left distance) moored in Scapa Flow
SMS Seydlitz
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SMS Seydlitz was a battlecruiser of the German Kaiserliche Marine, built in Hamburg. She was ordered in 1910 and commissioned in May 1913, the fourth battlecruiser built for the High Seas Fleet. Named
Derfflinger-class battlecruiser
…Royal Navy's two new Lion-class battlecruisers that had been launched a few years earlier. The preceding Moltke class and the incrementally improved Seydlitz represented the end of the evolution of Germany's first generation of battlecruisers. The Derfflinger class had considerable improvements, including a…
German battlecruiser SMS Seydlitz in port, prior to World War I
SMS Moltke, which provided the basis of the design for Seydlitz
Seydlitz steaming into Scapa Flow
Seydlitz in the floating dry dock at Kiel, before the war