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.

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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