Pillau-class cruiser

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• 8 × 15 cm L/45 SK ( 1024 income)
• 4 × 5.2 cm SK L/55 Flak
• 2 torpedo tubes ∅ 50 cm ( on deck )
• 120 sea mines

• Deck: 20-80 mm
• Conning tower: 50-75 mm
• Shields: 50 mm

The pillau class was a small two-unit existing series cruiser of the Imperial Navy. Both ships were originally built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the Schichau in Gdansk. With the beginning of World War II both new buildings were seized and of the Imperial Navy as an SMS pillau and SMS Elbing, named after two towns on the Vistula Lagoon, put into service 1914/15.

Design

As armament they should receive eight 13-cm L/55 quick -loading cannon and four 6.3 -cm L/55 guns. They were after their seizure with eight 15 -cm L/45 quick -loading cannon, four 5.2 -cm L/55 guns (later replaced by two 8.8 -cm L/45 guns ) and two 50 - cm - deck torpedo tubes equipped. In addition, 120 mines could be carried. With about 135 meters in length and a maximum displacement of 5,252 tons, these ships were somewhat smaller than those of the Graudenz class that the latest German light cruisers were at that time. Externally, the pillau class differs in its stem and on the nature and formation of their chimneys from the other cruiser classes.

Pillau SMS | SMS Elbing

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• Pillau class