SMS Baden (1880)
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| Construction data | |
| Shipyard | Imperial shipyard in Kiel |
| Keel laying | 1876 |
| Launch | July 28, 1880 |
| completion | September 24, 1883 |
| Whereabouts | Retired October 24, 1910, from 1912 barrier and defense hulk, from 1920 target hulk. April 23, 1938 sold for scrapping, demolished in Kiel in 1939/40 |
| Technical specifications | |
| Displacement | 7,635 ts Maximum: 7,938 t |
| Length waterline length over all |
93 m 98.2 m |
| width | 18.3 m |
| Draft | 6.37 m |
| Armament | 6 × 26 cm L / 22 Rk From 1886: 5 torpedo tubes (2 × 45 cm in the sides, 2 × 35 cm in the bow and 1 × 35 cm in the stern) |
| Armor |
Citadel : 203-254 mm. Deck: 51-64 mm |
| Propulsion system | 8 suitcase boiler in boiler rooms 2 + 2 2 lying 3-cyl compound machines 2, four bladed screw 5 m |
| Machine performance | 5,600 PSi |
| Fuel supply | 420–700 tons of coal |
| speed | 14.2 kn |
| Driving range | 1,940 nm at 10 kn |
| crew | 317 to 377 men |
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Corvette Captain Richard Hornung |
January 25 to May 15, 1892 September 24, 1894 to November 22, 1894 |
The tank corvette SMS Baden was the fourth ship in the Sachsen class , a class of four warships in the Imperial Navy . The keel was laid in 1876 at the Imperial Shipyard in Kiel . The launch took place on July 28, 1880, the commissioning on September 24, 1883.
The Saxony class
The first plans for the ships of the class were made as early as 1861. The four planned ships were primarily intended for coastal defense in the Baltic Sea area . Since the construction contract at the Szczecin shipyard was completed sooner than the first order at the Imperial Shipyard in Kiel , the Sachsen (household name: Panzerschiff B ) unexpectedly gave its class its name. Typschiff would otherwise have become her sister ship Bavaria ( Panzerschiff A ). From 1884 all four ships were operational.
From March to September 1901, sea captain Eugen Kalau vom Hofe (1856–1935) was in command of the SMS "Baden".
Technical specifications
The ships had a length of 97.8 m and a width of 18.3 m. The armament consisted of six 26 cm ring cannons with a 22 caliber length . Four of the six guns were positioned in the center of the ship and two in front open barbettes . From 1886 the ship also had five torpedo tubes (2 × 45 cm in the sides, 2 × 35 cm in the bow and 1 × 35 cm in the stern). The armor was made of wrought iron. The armor plates of the citadel were 203-254 mm thick. The deck had armor plates 51-64 mm thick. The crew numbered between 317 and 377 men. The drive consisted of two horizontally installed single expansion machines with eight suitcase boilers in two separate machine rooms. The chimneys were therefore arranged side by side in pairs; this led to the nickname "cement factory".
The ships of this class were the first of the Imperial Navy to be built without auxiliary sails. In the years 1896 to 1899 they were rebuilt and received new boiler systems with only one large chimney.
fate
The Baden was removed from the list of warships on October 24, 1910. From 1912 to 1918 it served as a blocking and defense hulk , and from 1920 to 1938 as a target hulk on Stollergrund.
Between 1939 and 1940 they were scrapped in Kiel.
Individual evidence
- ^ 4th Frigate Squadron, Wilhelmshaven (Ed.): Frigate Baden-Württemberg . Marinedruckerei Wilhelmshaven, Wilhelmshaven, S. 6 ( freunde-fregatte-bw.de [PDF; accessed on August 31, 2014]).
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