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Peter Strasser Medium Carrier

The contract to build the ship was awarded to the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft in Kiel in 1938, with a planned launch date on 1 July 1940. Work on Flugzeugträger B began in 1938 but was halted on 19 September 1939 because, now that Germany was at war with Great Britain and France, priority had shifted to U-boat construction. The hull, completed only up to the armored deck, sat rusting on its slipway until 28 February 1940, when Admiral Raeder ordered her broken up and scrapped. Scrapping was completed four months later.

The Kriegsmarine never named a vessel before it was launched, so it was only given the designation "B" ("A" was Graf Zeppelin's designation before launch). Had it been completed, the aircraft carrier could have been named Peter Strasser in honor of the World War I leader of the naval airships Peter Strasser.

In 1937, the Kriegsmarine planned two additional aircraft carriers of the Graf Zeppelin class with the official designations C and D. Both these carriers were planned to be operational by 1943. However, by the end of 1938, this plan was changed to only build these two carriers plus any further units as smaller carriers.

Note this is not an replica just modified battleship hull.

The real Armament:

16 × 15 cm (5.9 in) SK C/28 guns
12 × 10.5 cm (4.1 in) SK C/33 guns
22 × 3.7 cm (1.5 in) SK C/30 guns
28 × 2 cm (0.79 in) SK C/30 guns

Aircraft carried:
Complement of 43
10 × Messerschmitt Bf 109T fighters
13 × Junkers Ju 87C or -E dive bombers
20 × Fieseler Fi 167 biplane torpedo bombers

Complement:
1,720 crew
306 flight personnel

Displacement: 33,550 tonnes

Length: 262.5 m (861 ft 3 in)

Beam: 31.5 m (103 ft 4 in)

Draft: 7.6 m (24 ft 11 in)

Propulsion: Geared turbines, 200,000 hp (150,000 kW), four screws