Career
Ordered:
Laid down:	February 5, 1929
Launched:	May 19, 1931
Commissioned:	April 1, 1933
Fate:	Scuttled
General Characteristics
Displacement:	12,100 t standard; 16,200 t full load
Length:	610 ft (186 m)
Beam:	71 ft (21.6 m)
Draft (max.):	24 ft (7.4 m)
Armament:	Six 11 inch (280 mm) guns (2 triple turrets), eight 5.9 inch (150 mm) guns, eight 21 inch (530 mm) torpedo tubes (2 quadruple)
Armor:	5.5 inch (140 mm) turret face, 2.3 inch (58 mm) midships belt, 1.6 inch (41 mm) deck
Aircraft:	Two Arado 196 seaplanes, one catapult
Propulsion:	Eight MAN diesels, two screws, 52,050 hp (40 MW)
Speed:	28.5 knots (53 km/h)
Range:	8,900 nautical miles at 20 knots (16,500 km at 37 km/h)
Crew:	1,150

Deutschland ("Germany"), later re-named Lützow, was the first German large armoured ship built after World War I. File links The following pages link to this file: German battleship Deutschland ... Jack of the German Kaiserliche Marine and Kriegsmarine. ... February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... May 19 is the 139th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (140th in leap years). ... 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ... 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... A modern torpedo, historically called a self propelled torpedo, is a self-propelled guided projectile that (after being launched above or below the water surface) operates underwater and is designed to detonate on contact or in proximity to a target. ... The Ar 196 was a shipboard reconnaissance aircraft built by Arado starting in 1936. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ...

Its keel was laid down in February 1929, at the Deustche Werke shipyard in Kiel; it was launched in May 1931. It completed fitting-out in late 1932, and its maiden voyage was in May 1932. 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Statistics State: Schleswig-Holstein District: Independent city Area: 113. ... 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ...

Its size and characteristics where severely limited by the Treaty of Versailles, which limited Germany to ships of no more than 10,000 tons displacement. A number of technical innovations used by the Germans to build a formidable warship within this restricted weight. Even so, the Deutschland was 600 tons overweight, although for political reasons its announced displacement was always given as the 10,000 tons of the treaty limit. Woodrow Wilson with the American Peace Commissioners The Treaty of Versailles of 1919 is the peace treaty created as a result of six months of negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, which put an official end to World War I between the Allies and Central Powers. ... In fluid mechanics, displacement occurs when an object is immersed in a fluid, pushing it out of the way and taking its place. ...

Two other very similar (but not identical) ships were built in its class, the Admiral Graf Spee and the Admiral Scheer. The class was termed Panzerschiff ("armoured ship"); they were designated "pocket battleships" by the British because of their characteristics: their guns (6 x 28 cm in two turrets) were substantially bigger than those of the heavy cruisers of her time, but they were faster (and much less armoured) than the standard battleships. Admiral Graf Spee was a pocket battleship (Panzerschiff, later translated as heavy cruiser) launched by Germany in 1934 and named after the World War I Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee. ... Admiral Scheer, a pocket battleship, was built in 1933 and named after Admiral Reinhard Scheer. ... Pocket battleship is the British Royal Navy description for a class of warships built by German Reichsmarine in accordance with restrictions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles. ... Pocket battleship is the British Royal Navy description for a class of warships built by German Reichsmarine in accordance with restrictions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles. ...

After the start of World War II, she was renamed Lützow in November 1939 because Adolf Hitler feared that the loss a ship with the name "Germany" would have a significant negative psychological and propaganda effect. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889–April 30, 1945) was the Führer und Reichskanzler (leader and chancellor) of Germany from 1933 to his death. ...

In February 1940 she and her sisterships were re-classified as heavy cruisers, and in April of that year she participated in the invasion of Norway. Lützow was then to return to Germany to refit for an extended raiding cruise into the Atlantic, but was torpedoed by the british submarine Spearfish in the Skagerrak north of Jutland. The hit nearly tore of the entire stern of the ship and repairs were not finished until late 1941. 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... A heavy cruiser is a type of large warship which originated with the British Hawkins class during World War I. They entered service after the war. ... Invasion is a military action consisting of troops entering a foreign land (a nation or territory, or part of that), often resulting in the invading power occupying the area, whether briefly or for a long period. ... The Atlantic Ocean is Earths second-largest ocean, covering approximately one_fifth of its surface. ... USS Los Angeles A submarine is a specialized watercraft that can operate underwater. ... Categories: Sweden geography stubs | Norway geography stubs | Danish stubs ... Jutland Peninsula Jutland (Danish: Jylland, German: Jütland) is a peninsula in northern Europe that forms the continental part of Denmark and a northern part of Germany, dividing the North Sea from the Baltic Sea. ... For other meanings of the term, see Stern (disambiguation). ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

She participated in various minor events during the next years, but her only other significant service came starting in September 1944 in the Baltic Sea when she fired on land targets in support of the retreating German army, a service she would continue to provide in the subsequent months. 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

The ship was badly damaged by three 6-ton Tallboy bombs dropped by the Royal Air Force in April 1945 as it lay off Swinemünde, and it came to rest on the bottom. It was repaired, and then did further support of the army; it was finally scuttled by its crew on 4 May 1945. The Tallboy was a bomb developed by Barnes Wallis in 1944. ... The Royal Air Force (often abbreviated to RAF) is the air force branch of the UK Armed Forces. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Świnoujście (pronounce: [,ɕvinɔujɕtɕȋe], German Swinemünde) is a town in Pomerania, north-western Poland, situated on the islands of Uznam and Wolin with about 41,000 inhabitants (2004). ...

After the war, the Soviet navy raised her and used her as a target ship for artillery practice. As such, she finally sank in the Baltic Sea in 1949.

Further reading

• Siegfried Breyer, Gerhard Koop, (translated Edward Force), The German Navy At War 1939-1945: Volume 1 - The Battleships (Schiffer, West Chester, 1989)
• Bernard Ireland, Tony Gibbons, Jane's Battleships of the 20th Century (HarperCollins, New York, 1996) pp. 42-43