S.M.S. Fürst Bismarck (1897)
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S.M.S. Fürst Bismarck (1897) | |
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Builder: | Kiel Dockyard[1] |
Yard Number: | 23[2] |
Laid down: | 1895[3] |
Launched: | 25 Sep, 1897[4][5] |
Commissioned: | 1 April, 1900[6] |
Decommissioned: | 31 Dec, 1918[7] |
Broken up: | c. 1920[8] |
Contents
Construction
Designed between 1893 and 1895 and laid down as Ersatz Leipzig.[9] She was sheathed with Muntz metal for service on foreign stations, and spent most of her active career on overseas service.[10][11]
Service
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Kapitän zur See Heinrich K. L. Graf von Moltke, before 8 May, 1900
Armament
Completely disarmed during 1916.[12][13]
Main Battery
- Four 240mm/40 caliber quick-firing guns
Secondary Battery
- Twelve 150mm/40 caliber quick-firing guns, reduced to ten c. 1910.
- Ten 88mm/30 caliber quick-firing guns
- Four 37mm Maxim machine guns[14]
Torpedoes
- Six 450mm torpedo tubes, sixteen torpedoes
Fire Control
Rangefinders
Gunnery Control
Control Positions
Control Groups
Torpedo Control
Transmitting Stations
Fire Control Instruments
Radio
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 254.
- ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 48.
- ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 48.
- ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 49.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 254.
- ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 49.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 142.
- ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 49. Possibly 1919.
- ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 49.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 254.
- ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 49.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 254.
- ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 49.
- ↑ Removed later, date unknown.
Bibliography
- Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
- Gray, Randal (editor) (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
- Gröner, Erich (revised and expanded by Dieter Jung and Martin Maass) (1990). German Warships 1815-1945. Volume One: Major Surface Vessels. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.
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