Construction
Roon was laid down in 1902 at the Kiel Navy dockyard. She was launched on 27 June 1903 and completed on 5 April 1906, at the cost of 15,345,000 marks. Yorck was laid down in February 1903, at Blohm & Voss shipyard. Yorck was launched on 14 May 1904 and completed on 21 November 1905 at a cost of 16,241,000 marks. Roon was laid down as Ersatz Kaiser, as a replacement for the old armored frigate Kaiser, which had been renamed Uranus and used as a harbor ship. Yorck was ordered as Ersatz Deutschland to replace Deutschland, the sistership to Kaiser, which had renamed Jupiter and converted into a target ship.
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