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Six '''''Siegfried'' class coast defence ships''' were completed for the German Navy in the 1890s.
 
Six '''''Siegfried'' class coast defence ships''' were completed for the German Navy in the 1890s.
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|[[Germaniawerft]], Kiel
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|1888
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|29 Apr, 1890
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|Sold 1920
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|[[Aktien-Gesellschaft "Weser"|AG Weser]], Bremen
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|1890
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|8 Nov, 1890
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|1 Apr, 1892
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|Sold 1920
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|[[Aktien-Gesellschaft "Weser"|AG Weser]], Bremen
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|1890
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|21 Jul, 1891
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|23 Feb, 1893
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|Sold 1919
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|[[Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven‎|Wilhelmshaven Dockyard]]
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|1891
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|27 Jul, 1892
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|7 Apr, 1894
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|Broken up 1921
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|[[Kaiserliche Werft Kiel‎|Kiel Dockyard]]
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|1890
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|6 Aug, 1892
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|28 Oct, 1893
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|Sold 1919
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|[[Kaiserliche Werft Kiel‎|Kiel Dockyard]]
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|1891
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|21 Oct, 1893
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|2 Oct, 1894
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|Sold 1919
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==Design and Construction==
 
==Design and Construction==
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Revision as of 17:35, 17 May 2016

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, Bremen 1890 8 Nov, 1890 1 Apr, 1892 Sold 1920
Frithjof AG Weser, Bremen 1890 21 Jul, 1891 23 Feb, 1893 Sold 1919
Heimdall Wilhelmshaven Dockyard 1891 27 Jul, 1892 7 Apr, 1894 Broken up 1921
Hildebrand Kiel Dockyard 1890 6 Aug, 1892 28 Oct, 1893 Sold 1919
Hagen Kiel Dockyard 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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