KM Baron von Richtoften (CV-1939)
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The Richtoften class were to be six ships but the second ship of the class was completed for Argentina to a slightly different design to protect sensitive and secret materials from being made available to the Germanic States enemies. While smaller than the Zeppelins these ships had a larger aircraft complement.
The designers had learnt from their first effort and all of the 'ship' features had been deleted with the aircraft handling features taking precedence. For the first time the deck edge lifts were fitted from the start in a Germanic States aircraft carrier design. The 88m AA guns were the Flak36 mark as used on a different mount by the airforce and army (also fitted eventualy to Tiger tanks).
| Displacement | 29,700 tons std, 36,400 full load |
| Length | 726 ft |
| Breadth | 93 ft (hull) 122 ft flight deck |
| Draught | 27.5 ft |
| Machinery | 4 shaft mixed steam and diesel propulsion. 2 shaft Steam Turbines 90,000shp 2 shaft diesel engines 40,000ihp |
| Speed | 32 knots |
| Range | 9000 miles at 18 knots |
| Armour | 2.6" FD, 2.6 side, 4.1" magazines |
| Armament | 8 x 88mm/L56-36 (8x1) 12 x 37mm (12x1) 3 x 20mm (3x1) |
| Aircraft | 66 |
| Torpedoes | nil |
| Complement | 1800 |
| Notes | KM Baron von Richtoften KM Ernst Udet KM Erich Lowenhardt KM Werner Voss KM Paul Bäumer |
