In
Service: 12 November 1934 to 10 April 1945
Ordered: Builder: Reichsmarinewerft,
Wilhelmshaven
Construction No: 123
Laid down: 25 June 1931
Launched: 1 April 1933
Commissioned: 12 November 1934
Type: Pocket Battleship
Class: Deutschland
Displacement:
11,550 tons standard 15,180 tons full load
Length: 186 m
Beam:
21.34 m
Draft: 7.25 m
Propulsion: 8 × MAN diesels
engines producing up to 52,050 shp
Propellers: 2 × screws
Speed: 28.3 knots
Range: 9,100 nautical miles at 20 knots
Crew: 1,150 men and officers
Armament: 6 × 28 cm L/52
SK C/28
carried 630 to 720 rounds
8 × 15 cm L/55 SK C/28
carried
800 to 1200 rounds
3 × 8.8 cm L/45 SK upto 1935
6 × 8.8 cm
L/75 SK C/25 after 1935
carried 3000 rounds
6 × 10.5 cm L/65 SK
C/33 after 1938
carried 2400 to 3000 rounds
4 × 3.7 cm L/83 SK C/30
carried 8000 to 24,000 rounds
10 × 2 cm MG L/65 C/30
carried 20,000
rounds
6 × 4.8 cm L/56 Flak 28 after 1945
8 × 3.7 cm L/83
SK C/30
33 × 2 cm MG L/65 C/30 planned
8 × 53.3 cm torpedo
tubes.
Armour Turret 160 mm, Belt 80 mm, Deck 40 mm
Aircraft:
2 ×
Arado
196 seaplanes
Electronics: Operators: Kriegsmarine
Variants: Admiral Scheer Admiral
Graf Spee Lützow
Other: Pocket battleships
Articles: Admiral Scheer was a Deutschland class heavy cruiser (often considered
a pocket battleship) which served with the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany throughout
World War II. The vessel was called after Admiral Reinhard Scheer. Initially classified
as an armoured ship (Panzerschiff) in Germany, in February 1940 the Kriegsmarine
reclassified the other two ships of this class as heavy cruisers. The pocket battleship
title was given by the British
12 November 1934 The Admiral Scheer is commissioned.
4 September 1939 The Admiral Scheer shoots down an RAF Blenheim
bomber.
14 October 1940 The Admiral Scheer leaves port.
5 November 1940 The Admiral Scheer engaged convoy HX-84 and sinks
the HMS Jervis Bay, British steamer Mopan, British steamer Maidan, British steamer
Trewellard, British steamer Kenbane Head, British steamer Beaverford, and British
steamer Fresno City.
24 November 1940 The Admiral Scheer sinks
the British steamer Port Hobart.
1 December 1940 The Admiral
Scheer sinks the British steamer Tribesman.
17 December 1940
The Admiral Scheer captures the British steamer Duquesa.
17 January
1941 The Admiral Scheer captures the Norwegian steamer Sandefjord.
20 January 1941 The Admiral Scheer sinks the Dutch steamer Barneveld,
British steamer Stanpark, Greek steamer Grigorios, and the British steamer Advocate
is captured.
21 February 1941 The Admiral Scheer sinks the
British steamer Canadian Cruiser.
22 February 1941 The Admiral
Scheer sinks the Dutch steamer Rantau Pandjang.
1 April 1941
The Admiral Scheer arrives in Kiel
16 August 1942 The Admiral
Scheer takes part in operation Wunderland along with 3 destroyers Friedrich Eckoldt,
Erich Steinbrinck, Richard Beitzen., and 3 U-boats U-601 and U-251, on the 24
August U-601 sinks the Kuybyshev and on 25 August 1942 the Admiral Scheer sinks
Russian steamer Aleksandr Sibiryakov.
10 September 1942 The
Admiral Scheer along with Admiral Hipper, Köln, and Nürnberg, moves
to the Alta Fjord to attack Convoy PQ-18.
11 November 1942
The Admiral Scheer returns to Kiel.
10 April 1945 While Admiral
Scheer was at Kiel The RAF carried out a bombing raid on the dockyard and the
Admiral Scheer capsized and sunk.
Wilhelm
Marschall
Takes command on 12 November 1934
Ends command on 22 September
1936
Otto
Ciliax
Takes command on 22 September 1936
Ends command on 31 October
1938
Hans-Heinrich
Wurmbach
Takes command on 31 October 1938
Ends command on 31 October
1939
Theodor
Krancke
Takes command on 31 October 1939
Ends command on 12 June 1941
Wilhelm
Meendsen-Bohlken
Takes command on 12 June 1941
Ends command on 28
November 1942
Ernst
Gruber
Takes command on 28 November 1942
Ends command on 1 February
1943
Richard
Rothe-Roth
Takes command on 1 February 1943
Ends command on 4 April
1944
Ernst-Ludwig
Thinemann
Takes command on 4 April 1944
Ends command on 9 April 1945
German
Warships, 1815-1945: Major Surface Vessels.
ISBN-10: 0851775330
German
Warships, 1815-1945: U-boats and Mine Warfare Vessels.
ISBN-10: 155750301X
German warships of the Second World War.
ISBN-10: 0668040378
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