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German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin
Laid down: 28 December 1936
Launched: 8 December 1938
Displacement: ~ 34 000 t
Fate: sunk as a target ship on 16 August 1947 (Baltic Sea)
Length: 262,5 m
Complement: 1720
Graf Zeppelin soon after launch
Graf Zeppelin 2
Aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin – stern
Graf Zeppelin in Stettin 1941
Captured Graf Zeppelin 5 April 1947 at Swinemunde
Aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin – bow view
Graf Zeppelin September 1945
Graf Zeppelin in Stettin 2
RAF reconnaissance photo showing Graf Zeppelin at Gotenhafen – 6 February 1942
Graf Zeppelin September 1945 2
German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin broadside
Launching of Graf Zeppelin – 8 December 1938
Graf Zeppelin soon after launch 2
RAF reconnaissance photo showing Graf Zeppelin at Gotenhafen (Gdynia) – 6 February 1942
German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin
Stern of the German carrier Graf Zeppelin, Stettin Poland
Graf Zeppelin in Stettin
German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin
Laid down: 28 December 1936
Launched: 8 December 1938
Displacement: ~ 34 000 t
Fate: sunk as a target ship on 16 August 1947 (Baltic Sea)
Length: 262,5 m
Complement: 1720
Bibliography:
- Siegfried Breyer – Flugzeugträger “Graf Zeppelin”, Marine-Arsenal 4 (german) 1988
- Stephen Burke – Without Wings: The Story of Hitler’s Aircraft Carrier
- Siegfried Breyer – Graf Zeppelin, Encyklopedia Okrętów Wojennych 42, AJ-Press 2004 (polish/english)
- Siegfried Breyer – The German Aircraft Carrier Graf Zeppelin, 1990
- Ulrich Israel – Einziger deutscher Flugzeugträger Graf Zeppelin (german), 1994
- Siegfried Breyer – Flugzeugträger “Graf Zeppelin”, Marine-Arsenal Special Band 1 (german) 1994
- Siegfried Breyer, Miroslaw Skwiot – German Capital Ships of the Second World War: The Ultimate Photograph Album. 2012