GROßE KREUZERThe Large Cruiser Blücher and Beyond
| Battlecruisers (L - R) Derfflinger, Seydlitz and Von der Tann Enroute to Dogger Bank
| German battlecruiser design got off to a bad start with their first response to Great Britain's HMS Invincible, but they recovered quickly to design and build some of the best balanced ships to see service. Using cased powder, superior optics, extensive compartmentation, and carrying more armour, SMS Von der Tann and her successors were a match individually for British battlecruisers. But outnumbered 2:1 they never got to fight their opponents individually....
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| 1909SMS Blücher 1911SMS Von der Tann 1911SMS Moltke and Goeben 1913SMS Seydlitz 1914SMS Derfflinger, Lützow, and Hindenburg ----Mackensen-class - Never Completed ----Ersatz Yorck-class - Never Completed
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