Class
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Date Commissioned
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Service Tenure
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Fate
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Ship
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M........
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N/A
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N/A
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Cancelled
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Mackensen
|
M........
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N/A
|
N/A
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Cancelled
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Prinz Eitel Friedrich
|
M........
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Cancelled
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Furst Bismarck
|
M........
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Cancelled
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Graf Spee
|
D..........
|
May 10, 1917
|
1917-1919
|
Scuttled at Scapa Flow, June 21, 1919
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Hindenburg
|
D..........
|
August 8, 1915
|
1915-1916
|
Critically Damaged at the Battle of Jutland by below the waterline shots to the bow from HMS Invincible, scuttled, June 1, 1916
|
Lutzow
|
D..........
|
September 1, 1914
|
1914-1919
|
Scuttled at Scapa Flow, June 21, 1919
|
Derfflinger
|
S.......
|
May 22, 1913
|
1913-1919
|
Scuttled at Scapa Flow, June 21, 1919
|
Seydlitz
|
M.....
|
July 2, 1912
|
1912-1954
|
Transferred to Ottoman Empire as Yavuz Sultan Selim (Yavuz) in August 1914, scrapped in 1973
|
Goeben
|
M.....
|
August 30, 1911
|
1911-1919
|
Scuttled at Scapa Flow, June 21, 1919
|
Moltke
|
V.. ... ....
|
|
1910-1919
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Scuttled at Scapa Flow, June 21, 1919
|
Von Der Tann
|
B......
|
October 1, 1909
|
1909-1915
|
Sunk in the Battle of Dogger Bank, January 24, 1915
|
Blucher
|
S........
|
October 24, 1907
|
1907-1914
|
Sunk in the Battle of the Falkland Islands, December 8, 1914
|
Scharnhorst
|
S........
|
March 6, 1908
|
1908-1914
|
Sunk in the Battle of the Falkland Islands, December 8, 1914
|
Gneisenau
|
R...
|
April 5, 1906
|
1906-1916
|
Scrapped in 1921
|
Roon
|
R...
|
November 21, 1905
|
1905-1914
|
Sunk accidentally by German mines, November, 4, 1914
|
Yorck
|
Prinz A......
|
December 12, 1903
|
1903-1914
|
Mined and sunk, November 17, 1914
|
Friedrich Carl
|
Prinz A......
|
January 12, 1904
|
1904-1915
|
Torpedoed and sunk by British submarine E8, October 23, 1915
|
Prinz Adalbert
|
Prinz H.......
|
March 11, 1902
|
1902-1916
|
Scrapped in 1920
|
Prinz Heinrich
|
F....B......
|
April 1, 1900
|
1900-1919
|
Scrapped from 1919-1920
|
Furst Bismarck
|
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