Siegfried Class Coast Defence Ship (1889)

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Six Siegfried class coast defence ships were completed for the German Navy in the 1890s.

Overview of 6 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name Builder Laid Down Launched Completed Fate
Siegfried Germaniawerft, Kiel 1888 10 Aug, 1889 29 Apr, 1890 Sold 1920
Beowulf AG Weser 1890 8 Nov, 1890 1 Apr, 1892 Sold 1920
Frithjof AG Weser 1890 21 Jul, 1891 23 Feb, 1893 Sold 1919
Heimdall Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven‎ 1891 27 Jul, 1892 7 Apr, 1894 Broken up 1921
Hildebrand Kaiserliche Werft Kiel‎ 1890 6 Aug, 1892 28 Oct, 1893 Sold 1919
Hagen Kaiserliche Werft Kiel‎ 1891 21 Oct, 1893 2 Oct, 1894 Sold 1919

Design and Construction

Armament

As Completed

  • Three 240mm/35 caliber guns
  • Eight 88mm/30 caliber quick-firing guns[1]
  • Four 350mm torpedo tubes, ten torpedoes

[2][3]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Only six carried aboard Siegfried.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 246.
  3. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 11.

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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