Deutschland Class (Cruisers)

found: Work cat.: Chesneau, R. German pocket battleships, 2004:p. 5 (Deutschland Class)

found: Wikipedia, May 6, 2010:under Deutschland class cruiser (Deutschland class; was a series of three Panzerschiffe, a form of heavily armed cruiser, built by the German Reichsmarine; the class is named after the first ship of this class to be completed, the Deutschland; Deutschland class ships were initially classified as Panzerschiffe or 'armoured ships', but the Kriegsmarine reclassified them as heavy cruisers in February 1940; the British began referring to the vessels as pocket battleships (a battleship that fits into a pocket))