| Career (Nazi Germany) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Flugzeugträger B |
| Builder: | Germaniawerft, Kiel |
| Laid down: | 1938 |
| Fate: | Scrapped between February–June, 1940 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 33,550 tonnes (33,020 long tons) |
| Length: | 262.5 m (861 ft) |
| Beam: | 31.5 m (103 ft) |
| Draft: | 7.6 m (25 ft) |
| Propulsion: | Geared turbines, 200,000 hp (149,100 kW) 4 screws |
| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
| Range: | 8,000 nmi (14,816 km) at 19 kn (35 km/h) |
| Complement: | 1,720 crew 306 flight personnel |
| Armament: | 16 × Sk. 15 cm guns 12 × 10.5 cm Flak 22 × 3.7 cm Flak 28 × 2.0 cm Flak |
| Aircraft carried: | Complement of 50: 10 × Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters 20 × Junkers Ju 87 dive bombers 20 × Fieseler Fi 167 torpedo bombers |
The Flugzeugträger B (Flugzeugträger is German for aircraft carrier) was the sister ship of the Kriegsmarine's only launched aircraft carrier, the Graf Zeppelin.
The contract to build the ship was awarded to the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft in Kiel in 1938, with a planned launch date on July 1, 1940. The hull was never launched, however, as construction stopped on September 19, 1939. Scrapping of the uncompleted carrier was started on February 28, 1940, a process taking four months.
The Kriegsmarine never named a vessel before it was launched, so it was only given the designation "B" ("A" was the Graf Zeppelin's designation before launch). Had it been completed, the aircraft carrier could have been named Peter Strasser in honour of the World War I leader of the naval airships Peter Strasser[1]. But this name was never confirmed.
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