Prince Adalbert class

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SMS Prince Adalbert
Class details
Ship type: Big cruiser
Period of service: 1901-1915
Units: 2
Sister ships
Prince Adalbert , Friedrich Carl
Technical specifications
Length:
  • between the perpendiculars: 124.9 m
  • over everything: 127.1 m
  • Water line: 126.5 m
Width: 19.6 m
Draft: 7.3 meters
Displacement:
  • Construction displacement: 9087 t
  • Displacement: 9875 t
Drive:
Speed: 20.0 kn
Range: 5000 nm at 12 kn
Crew: 506-638 men
Armament:
  • 4 × 21 cm L / 40 rapid loading cannons
  • 10 × 15 cm L / 40 rapid loading cannons
  • 12 × 8.8 cm L / 35 rapid loading cannons
  • 4 × 8 mm machine guns
  • 4 × 45 cm underwater torpedo tubes

After the two single ships SMS Fürst Bismarck and SMS Prinz Heinrich, the ships of the German Prinz Adalbert class were the first class of large cruisers to be built according to a modern design. The class consisted of SMS Prinz Adalbert and SMS Friedrich Carl . The Prinz Adalbert was a replacement for the SMS König Wilhelm , while the Friedrich Carl was a multipurpose building .

draft

The two ships of the class were basically very similar to the previously built SMS Prinz Heinrich , but had three funnels, and the two 24 cm guns of the Prinz Heinrich were replaced by four 21 cm guns in two twin turrets , which had a significantly higher rate of fire than the heavier 24 cm guns had. As with many ships of the time, the six lower casemate guns of the secondary artillery could only be used when the sea was calm.

literature

  • Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung and Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945 Volume 1. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7637-4800-8 .
  • John Roberts, HC Timewell, Roger Chesneau (Eds.), Eugene M. Kolesnik (Eds.): Warships of the World 1860 to 1905 - Volume 1: Great Britain / Germany. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1983, ISBN 3-7637-5402-4 .
  • Dieter Jung: The ships of the Imperial Navy 1914–1918 and their whereabouts. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 2004, ISBN 3-7637-6247-7 .