Roon-class armoured cruiser
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The Roon class was a pair of armored cruisers built for the German Kaiserliche Marine in the 1900s. The two ships of the class, Roon and Yorck, closely resembled the earlier Prinz Adalbert-class cruisers upon which they were based. The Roon class incorporated slight incremental improvements, including a pair of extra boilers. The ships were easily distinguishable from their predecessors by the addition of a fourth funnel. Though the additional boilers were meant to increase the ships' speed, both vessels failed to reach their designed top speed. When combined with the Roon class' relatively light armament and thin armor protection, the ships compared poorly with their foreign contemporaries—particularly the armored cruisers of their anticipated opponent, the British Royal Navy.
1903
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speed 21.1 knot, beam 20.2 metre, length 127.8 metre, draft 7.76 metre,
Kaiserliche Werft Kiel, Imperial German Navy, German Empire, German Reich, 
SMS Yorck,
- Dreadnought Project page@
Location: KML, Cluster Map, Maps,
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SMS Roon ⓘ
1903 Roon-class armoured cruiser -
SMS Yorck ⓘ
1904 Roon-class cruiser
Bundesarchiv DVM 10 Bild-23-61-82, Panzerkreuzer der Roon-Klasse| Type | Subtype | Date | Description | Notes | Source |
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| link | page | Dreadnought Project page@ | Wikidata | ||
| object | watercraft | SMS Roon | Roon-class armored cruiser, armored cruiser | Wikidata | |
| object | watercraft | SMS Yorck | Roon-class armored cruiser, armored cruiser | Wikidata | |
| commons | image | Bundesarchiv DVM 10 Bild-23-61-82, Panzerkreuzer der Roon-Klasse | Commons | ||