History
Name: | Graf Zeppelin
Namesake: | Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Builder: | Deutsche Werke
Laid down: | 28 December 1936
Launched: | 8 December 1938
Fate: | Sunk as a target ship on 16 August 1947
General characteristics
Class and type: | Graf Zeppelin-class aircraft carrier
Displacement: | 33,550 long tons (34,088.4 t) (full load)
Length: | 262.5 m (861 ft 2.6 in)
Beam: | 36.2 m (118 ft 9.2 in)
Draft: | 8.5 m (27 ft 10.6 in)
Installed power: | 200,000 shaft horsepower (149,140.0 kW)
Propulsion: | 4 geared turbines
Speed: | 33.8 kn (62.6 km/h; 38.9 mph)
Range: | 8,000 nmi (14,816.0 km; 9,206.2 mi) at 19 kn (35.2 km/h; 21.9 mph)
Complement: | 1,720
Armament: | 16 × 15 cm SK C/28 guns 12 × 10.5 cm SK C/33 guns 22 × 3.7 cm SK C/30 guns 28 × 2 cm FlaK guns
Armor: | Belt: 100 mm (3.9 in) Flight deck: 45 mm (1.8 in) Main deck: 60 mm (2.4 in)
Aircraft carried: | Proposed complement of 42 1930 proposal: 30 fighters & 12 dive bombers 1939 proposal: 12 fighters & 30 dive bombers