Die Geschichte der deutschen Schlachtschiffe der Moltke Klasse. Schlachtschiffe der Kaiserlichen Marine während des ersten Weltkrieges.

History of the German Battleships of the Moltke class dreadnought battleships of the Imperial German Navy during world war I.

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SMS Moltke  German battleships of the Moltke class. Built at Blohm and Voss in Hamburg and launched on the 4th of July 1910, commissioned 30th September 1911 and finally entered service in the German navy on the 31st of March 1912.  Moltke took part in the action at Dogger bank  and it seems she may not have been shoot at t all. But Moltke was torpedoed by the British Submarine E1 on the 19th August  1915 (being repaired at Hamburg) and during the battle of Jutland received damage from four shell hits. It is noted that she scored nine hits on HMS Tiger in the first 12 minutes of the battle.  In 1917 Moltke took part in operation off the East Baltic Islands. and in 1918 was torpedoed by Royal Navy Submarine E42. but managed with a staggering 2,100 tons of water on board, to limp back to post.  On the 24th November 1918 she was interned at Scapa Flow and her crew Scuttled the ship on the 21st June 1919. raised in June 1927 and scrapped at Rosyth 1928,/1929. It is interesting to note, that in the German navy the Moltke was always considered a lucky ship.

Displacement 22, 640 tons, and full load 25,400 tons,  Speed: 25.5 knots.  range: 4,100 Nautical Miles at 14 Knots.  Compliment: 1,107 and in May 1916 upto 1355   Armament: Ten 11 -inch Guns (5 x 2)  Twelve 5.9 inch guns. Twelve 3.4 inch guns.  Four 20 inch Torpedo tubes. (one in the bow , Two in the beam and one in the stern. all submerged)

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The Ship that Changed the World, the Escape of the Goeben to the Dardanelles in 1914, by Dan Van Der Vat.

With the Black Sea closed, her exports dropped ninety-eight per cent and her imports by ninety-five percent.  The cutting off of Russia, with all its consequences, the vain and sanguinary tragedy of Gallipoli, the diversion of Allied strength in the campaigns of Mesopotamia, Suez and Palestine, the ultimate break up of the Ottoman Empire, the subsequent history of the Middle East, followed from the voyage of the Goeben - Barbara Tuchman, August 1914.  The escape of the German battlecruiser Goeben to Turkey in the early  days of the First World War is one of the most under-reported turning points in twentieth century history.  In 1914 the German Navys Mediterranean Division comprised just two ships: the Goeben and light cruiser Breslau.  Despite having to run the gauntlet of the French Navy and the British Mediterranean fleet, the pair, ruthlessly commanded by Rear-Admiral Wilhelm Souchin, eluded a tired and irresolute French Commander-in-Chief and then an incompetent British admiral to arrive in Constantinople and bring Turkey into the war.

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