SMS Frauenlob (1918)

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Ship data flag  German Empire other ship names Replacement Königsberg (building name) Ship type Small cruiser class Cöln class Shipyard Imperial shipyard Kiel Build number 42 Launch October 16, 1918 Whereabouts Sold for demolition in 1921

Ship dimensions and crew length 155.5 m ( Lüa ) width 14.2 m Draft Max. 6.01-6.43 m displacement 7486  t measurement 4650 BRT 2200 NRT   crew 559

Machine system machine 14 steam boilers (8 coal-fired, 6 oil-fired) 2 sets of steam turbines Machine performance 31,000 PSw Top speed 27.5 kn (51 km / h) propeller 2 three-leaf Ø 3.5 m

Armament 8 guns 15 cm L / 45 (1040 rounds, 176 hm) 3 Flak 8.8 cm L / 45 4 torpedo tubes Ø 60 cm on deck Mine capacity: 200 Armor 60 mm belt armor Deck armor horizontal: 20-40 mm Slopes: 40–60 mm Control center: horizontal: 20 mm vertical: 100 mm

The second SMS Frauenlob was a small cruiser of the Imperial Navy . It was the seventh ship of the Cöln class and at the same time the last unit in this series to be launched and given a name. It was named after the small cruiser SMS Frauenlob , which was sunk in the Battle of the Skagerrak .

Due to a lack of material and personnel, construction was stopped before completion. After the launch on October 16, 1918, the steam turbine U-cruiser SM UD 1 was to be laid down on the same slipway . The Frauenlob , like its unfinished sister ships, was removed from the list of warships on November 17, 1919 and finally sold for demolition in 1921.

literature

• Gerhard Koop, Klaus-Peter Schmolke: Small cruisers 1903-1918. Bremen to Cologne class. Volume 12 Ship classes and ship types of the German Navy, Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7637-6252-3 .