page_title: SMS Seydlitz
section_title: Design
hierarchical_section_title: SMS Seydlitz / Design
caption_attribution_description: English: Drawing of the SMS Seydlitz in her configuration in May 1916. Additional info obtained from: Gary Staff: German Battlecruisers of World War One., Pen &amp; Sword Books, 2014, ISBN 978-1848322134 Gerhard Koop), Klaus Schmolke: Vom Original zum Modell, Die großen Kreuzer - Von der Tann, Moltke-Klasse, Seydlitz, Derfflinger-Klasse Bernard &amp; Graefe, 1997, ISBN 3763759735 Various photographs
context_page_description: SMS Seydlitz was a battlecruiser of the German Kaiserliche Marine, built in Hamburg. She was ordered in 1910 and commissioned in May 1913, the fourth battlecruiser built for the High Seas Fleet. She was named after Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, a Prussian general during the reign of King Frederick the Great and the Seven Years' War. Seydlitz represented the culmination of the first generation of German battlecruisers, which had started with the Von der Tann in 1906 and continued with the pair of Moltke-class battlecruisers ordered in 1907 and 1908. Seydlitz featured several incremental improvements over the preceding designs, including a redesigned propulsion system and an improved armor layout. The ship was also significantly larger than her predecessors—at 24,988 metric tons, she was approximately 3,000 metric tons heavier than the Moltke-class ships.
  Seydlitz participated in many of the large fleet actions during World War I, including the battles of Dogger Bank and Jutland in the North Sea.
caption: Seydlitz, drawn in her 1916 configuration
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