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ELBE aircraft carriers

Elbe

Yard Laid Launche

Name Builder Comp Fate
No down d
Blohm & Voss,
Elbe (ex- 16/1/193 6/1936 cancelled 2/2/1943,
497 Hamburg // Blohm & 1934
Potsdam) 5 // --- accommodation ship
Voss, Kiel
Jade (ex- A G Weser, Bremen // 17/5/193 1/1936 cancelled 25/11/1942,
893 1934
Gneisenau) KMW Wilhelmshaven 5 // --- personnel transport

Displacement Elbe: 17527

standard, t Jade: 18160
Displacement full,
Elbe: 23500
t
Elbe: 189.0 wl 203.0 oa
Length, m
Jade: 191.0 wl 203.0 oa
Breadth, m 26.8 wl 27.0 fd
Draught, m 8.85 deep load
No of shafts 2
Elbe: electric motors, 2 Blohm & Voss / SSW turbine-generators, 4
Machinery Benson boilers
Jade: Deschimag geared steam turbines, 4 Wagner boilers
Power, h. p. 26000
Max speed, kts 21
Fuel, t oil 4570
Endurance,
9000(19)
nm(kts)
Armour, mm flight deck: 20, hangar sides: 15 - 10
6 x 2 - 105/60 SK C/33, 5 x 2 - 37/80 SK C/30, 8 x 4 - 20/65 C/38, 24
Armament
aircraft (Bf109T fighters, Ju87C, Fi 167 diving bombers)
Sensors 3 FuMo21 radars
Complement 883 - 900
 
Aircraft facilities (fd - 5,022 m², ha - 2,664 m² / 15,078 m³): Flight deck: 186.0 x 27.0 m.
Hangar: 148.0 x 18.0 x ? m. Two lifts, each (15.2 x 14.3 m, 6.5 t). There were 2 catapults of
K-252 type. Aircraft fuel stowage: 100 t. 
     
Year fighters diving bombers
1943 (planned) 12 Bf109T 12 Ju87C

Ship project history: Decision to convert passenger liners Potsdam and Gneisenau to aircraft
carriers was dated from May 1942, works on Potsdam started in December but they were
cancelled in February 1943 and ship was used as accommodation. She was taken by Britain in
June 1946 and renamed Empire Fowey. Works on Gneisenau never really started, she was
reclassified as personnel transport and sunk by mine 2/5/1943 .

Ship protection: Flight deck would had 20mm and hangar sides 15-10mm protection. There
was primitive anti-torpedo protection consisted of bulges and thin bulkheads.

© Ivan Gogin, 2008-14

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1. Conrad Albrecht (1880-1969), le 1er avril 1939 ;

2. Alfred Saalwächter (1883-1945), le 1er janvier 1940 ;
3. Rolf Carls (1885-1945), le 19 juillet 1940 ;
4. Hermann Boehm (1884-1972), le 1er avril 1941 ;
5. Karl Witzell (1884-1976), le 1er avril 1941 ;
6. Otto Schultze (1884-1966), le 31 août 1942 ;
7. Wilhelm Marschall (1886-1976), le 1er février 1943 ;
8. Otto Schniewind (1887-1964), le 1er mars 1944 ;
9. Walter Warzecha (1891-1956), le 1er mars 1944 ;
10. Oskar Kummetz (1891-1980), le 16 septembre 1944 ;
11. Hans-Georg von Friedeburg (1895-1945), le 1er mai 1945.
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