Schweitzer-class destroyer
Class overview | |
Name | Schweitzer |
Namesake | Peter Schweitzer |
Builder | Marburger Schiffbau AG |
Operators | Rotgeheim |
Cost | $130 million per ship |
In commission | 1897 - present |
Planned | 6 |
Completed | 6 |
Currently under construction | 0 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Destroyer |
Displacement | 9,800 tons |
Length | 509 ft (154 m) |
Beam | 66 ft (20 m) |
Draft | 30.5 ft (9.3 m) |
Installed power | Three Maybach MB1000 Generators |
Propulsion | Four gas turbines |
Speed | 32 knots (59 km/h) |
Range | 8,100 km |
Armament | 6 x 12.7 cm (5 in) guns 6 x 7.6 cm (3 in) guns |
The Schweitzer class are one of the many classes of destroyers currently serving in the Rotgeheiman Navy.
Contents
Background
Design
Armament
Ships
The following ships are the produced and actively-serving Schweitzer-class battleships, as well as those under construction and awaiting construction. Production numbers are assigned by the manufacturers to denote the location in which it was produced, as well as denoting which number ship it is in the production line (i.e. MS-ZR-1 means the producer was Marburger Schiffbau, the ship type was destroyer, and it was the first ship produced of that type). In Rotgeheim, hull numbers are the letter and number designation given to each ship, apart from its actual ceremonial name. Destroyers in the Rotgeheiman Navy begin their hull number designations with "ZR", representing Zerstörer ("Destroyer").
Name | Hull number | Production Number | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Country | Unit | Captain |
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RKM Schweitzer | ZR-001 | MS-ZR-1 | Marburger Schiffbau | 23 April 1897 | 12 May 1898 | Rotgeheim | 1st Fleet, Kriegsmarine | Ruprecht Hülsen |
RKM Pfeil | ZR-002 | MS-ZR-2 | Marburger Schiffbau | 20 May 1898 | 29 May 1899 | Rotgeheim | 1st Fleet | Felix Schoenauer |
RKM Vetter | ZR-003 | MS-ZR-3 | Marburger Schiffbau | 5 June 1899 | 14 June 1900 | Rotgeheim | 1st Fleet | Johann Rauscher |
RKM Adelmann | ZR-004 | MS-ZR-4 | Marburger Schiffbau | 19 June 1900 | 24 June 1901 | Rotgeheim | 1st Fleet | Roland Weishaupt |
RKM Kreuz | ZR-005 | MS-ZR-5 | Marburger Schiffbau | 29 June 1901 | 4 July 1902 | Rotgeheim | 1st Fleet | Sebastian Sperrling |
RKM Baden | ZR-006 | MS-ZR-6 | Marburger Schiffbau | 8 July 1902 | 19 July 1903 | Rotgeheim | 1st Fleet | Rainer Kronthaler |