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The Derfflinger class was a new approach to the construction of the German brand of battlecruisers. Considerably larger than their predecessors, they dropped the wing turret system completely and also lost the central turrets, giving them more room to accommodate boilers and turbines, but reducing the number of heavy guns from ten to eight. To make up for this, the weaponry was upgraded to the more powerful 30,5cm guns, which were also used as standard heavy gun of contemporary German dreadnoughts. Lützow has two additional 15cm guns, the only notable difference between the ships. The Derfflingers were the first battlecruisers to use the Michigan-Aufstellung, meaning that all heavy guns were set in the centre line of the ship and the upper turrets were able to fire over the lower ones. Los

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rdfs:comment	The Derfflinger class was a new approach to the construction of the German brand of battlecruisers. Considerably larger than their predecessors, they dropped the wing turret system completely and also lost the central turrets, giving them more room to accommodate boilers and turbines, but reducing the number of heavy guns from ten to eight. To make up for this, the weaponry was upgraded to the more powerful 30,5cm guns, which were also used as standard heavy gun of contemporary German dreadnoughts. Lützow has two additional 15cm guns, the only notable difference between the ships. The Derfflingers were the first battlecruisers to use the Michigan-Aufstellung, meaning that all heavy guns were set in the centre line of the ship and the upper turrets were able to fire over the lower ones. Los
dcterms:subject	Capital ship Ship type Kaiserliche Marine Battlecruiser
abstract	The Derfflinger class was a new approach to the construction of the German brand of battlecruisers. Considerably larger than their predecessors, they dropped the wing turret system completely and also lost the central turrets, giving them more room to accommodate boilers and turbines, but reducing the number of heavy guns from ten to eight. To make up for this, the weaponry was upgraded to the more powerful 30,5cm guns, which were also used as standard heavy gun of contemporary German dreadnoughts. Lützow has two additional 15cm guns, the only notable difference between the ships. The Derfflingers were the first battlecruisers to use the Michigan-Aufstellung, meaning that all heavy guns were set in the centre line of the ship and the upper turrets were able to fire over the lower ones. Losing the foredeck of their forebears, the new ships were flush deckers and easily the most elegant capital ships of their time. All ships of the class bore the names of famous officers, Derfflinger was named in honour of a Prussian cavalry general from the 17th century and Lützow commemorated the popular Major Lützow from the times of the Napoleonic War, who had fought a guerilla war against the French. The (not yet finished in 1916) third ship of the class, SMS Hindenburg, was of an improved design and named after the field marshal who had defeated the Russians at Tannenberg in late 1914, if only in name.

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