[KellyAdmirer]

More like a heavy cruiser than a battleship. There was a lot of fast and loose playing around with terms in the 1930s.

[Tallguy]

More like a heavy cruiser than a battleship.

Displacement, armor, gun caliber, power plant -- she fit into may classes depending on which category you focus on. The term "Pocket Battleship" was hung on her by the British who wanted to emphasize the point that she was built in violation of the tonnage limits placed on the Germans by the Treaty of Versailles. But she wasn't a true Battleship by any stretch...