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SMS Von der Tann was the first battlecruiser built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy), as well as Germany's first major turbine-powered...

Von der Tann may refer to: SMS Von der Tann, an Imperial German Navy battlecruiser which served in World War I; launched in 1909 Von der Tann (gunboat)...

Germany's numerical inferiority compared to the British Royal Navy. SMS Von der Tann was the first German battlecruiser, built in 1908–1910. The Kaiserliche...

Ludwig Samson Heinrich Arthur Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen (18 June 1815 – 26 April 1881) was a Bavarian general. Born in Darmstadt, on...

first generation of German battlecruisers, which had started with the Von der Tann in 1906 and continued with the pair of Moltke-class battlecruisers ordered...

performance. For example, at the Battle of Jutland, the battlecruiser SMS Von der Tann, which had a maximum speed of 27.5 knots (50.9 km/h; 31.6 mph), was...

Admiral Franz von Hipper, with his flag aboard Seydlitz, departed the Jade estuary. Following Seydlitz were Derfflinger, Moltke, Von der Tann, and Blücher...

built between 1909–1911. Named SMS Moltke and SMS Goeben, they were similar to the previous battlecruiser Von der Tann, but the newer design featured...

Von der Tann was a steam-powered 120 ton gunboat built in 1849 at Conradi shipyards in Kiel for the small joint navy of the two duchies of Schleswig and...

Lübeck in 1911 and Cöln in 1912–13. As captain of the battlecruiser Von der Tann in 1916–17, Zenker saw action in the Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1...

General August Karl von Goeben. Along with her sister ship, Goeben was similar to the previous German battlecruiser design, Von der Tann, but larger, with...

HMS Dreadnought. In the same year, Germany responded with its own battlecruiser, SMS Von der Tann. Over the next decade, Britain and Germany built an additional twelve...

31 May operation; the two serviceable German battlecruisers—Moltke and Von der Tann—supported by three dreadnoughts, were to bombard the coastal town of...

(11 in) guns used in the previous battlecruiser, SMS Von der Tann, to 30.5 cm (12 in), but Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, the State Secretary of the Navy, opposed...

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completed and more were under construction. The first German battlecruiser—SMS Von der Tann—was commenced March 1908. Four Parsons turbines were used, improving...

May operation; the two serviceable German battlecruisers—Moltke and Von der Tann—supported by three dreadnoughts, were to bombard the coastal town of...

SMS Baden was a Bayern-class dreadnought battleship of the German Imperial Navy built during World War I. Launched in October 1915 and completed in March...

consolidating in Wilhelmshaven, war-weary sailors began deserting en masse. As Von der Tann and Derfflinger passed through the locks that separated Wilhelmshaven's...

Ludwig von (1940). Scapa Flow: The Greatest Scuttling of All Time. London: Hurst & Blackett. von Ruge, Friedrich (1969). Scapa Flow 1919: Das Ende der deutschen...