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The Ersatz Yorck class was a group of three battlecruisers ordered for the German Imperial Navy in 1916. They were originally additions to the Mackensen class, but with larger guns in the main battery. Work had already begun, so the design was constrained by the need to use the material already assembled. The three ships were never completed, primarily due to shifting wartime construction priorities; U-boats were deemed more important to Germany's war effort, and so work on other types of ships was slowed or halted. The lead ship was the only vessel of the three to begin construction, which was halted long before completion. Machinery that had been assembled for the second vessel was installed in the first four Type U 151 U-boats. The work that had gone into the Ersatz Yorck design was used as a starting point for designing the Scharnhorst-class battleships in the 1930s. (This article is part of a featured topic: Battlecruisers of the world.)
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Hi Parsecboy and congratulations. A draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits from you or from anyone else interested are welcome. Gog the Mild (talk) 13:48, 23 January 2020 (UTC)