SMS King Wilhelm
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| Construction data | ||
| Ship type | until 1897: tank frigate from 1897: large cruiser |
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| Ship class | King Wilhelm class | |
| Construction designation: | Started as Turkish Fatikh ; 1867 purchase as Wilhelm I. | |
| Builder: | Thames Ironworks in Blackwall , England | |
| Keel laying : | 1865 | |
| Launch : | April 25, 1868 | |
| Completion: | February 20, 1869 | |
| Design type: | Cross and longitudinal frame iron construction | |
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| Ship dimensions | ||
| Measurement : | 5,085 GRT 2,822 NRT |
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| Displacement : | Construction: 9,757 t after conversion: 9,574 t Maximum: 10,761 t |
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| Length of the waterline : Length over all: |
L KWL : 108.6 m L overall approx : 112.2 m |
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| Width: | 18.3 m | |
| Draft : | 8.12 - 8.56 m | |
| Side height : | 12.94 m | |
| Technical specifications | ||
| Rigging : | Full ship | |
| Sail area: |
up to 1878 : 2,600 m² 1878–1895 : 1,100 m² |
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| Boiler system : | 8 suitcase kettles by J. Penn & Sons after conversion : 8 cross-standing suitcase kettles by Kaiserl. shipyard |
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| Machinery: | 1 horizontal 2-cylinder single expansion machine |
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| Number of propellers: | 1 four-wing 7 m | |
| Shaft speed: | 65.3 / min | |
| Drive power: | 8,000 PSi | |
| Speed: | 14 kn | |
| Driving range: |
before conversion : 1,300 nm at 10 kn after conversion : 2,240 nm at 10 kn |
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| Fuel supply: | 750 ( after conversion : 1,030) t coal | |
| Crew: | 36 officers and 694 ( after conversion : 712) men |
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| Armor | ||
| Material: | Wrought iron | |
| Belt armor: | upper layer: 152 - 305 mm lower layer: 127 - 178 mm |
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| Battery deck: | Sides: 203 mm. Cross bulkheads : 152 mm |
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| Control center: | horizontal: 30 mm vertical: 50 - 100 mm |
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| Armament | ||
| Arrangement: | Battery ship | |
| Anti-ship guns: before conversion |
18 rows - 24 cm L / 20 1,440 shots, 45 hm 5 Rk - 21 cm L / 22 59 hm |
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| Sea target guns: after conversion |
18 + 4 rows - 24 cm L / 20 1,426 shots, 91 hm or 54 hm 1 row - 15 cm L / 30 109 shots, 89 hm 18 Sk - 8.8 cm L / 30 4,500 shots |
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Torpedo tubes 35 cm: |
5 (1 stern, 2 sides, 2 bow) all over water |
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| Commanders | ||
| Sea captain | Heinrich Kühne (1878) | |
| Sea captain | Hans Koester (1887) | |
| Sea captain | Curt von Prittwitz and Gaffron (October 1892–1894) | |
| Whereabouts | ||
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scrapping in Rönnebeck |
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SMS König Wilhelm was an armored frigate of the Prussian Navy , the Navy of the North German Confederation and the Imperial Navy .
Tank frigate
The ship was laid down for the Ottoman Navy at Thames Ironworks in Blackwall / London (England) in 1865 , but was bought by Prussia during the construction work in 1867 , named after the Prussian King Wilhelm and launched on April 25, 1868. She was a three-master with 2,600 square feet of sail, and her steam engine gave her a top speed of 15 knots . 33 72-pounders were planned as armament. When the unfinished ship was purchased, it was decided to equip it with eighteen 24 cm ring cannons and five 21 cm ring cannons. The ship was 112 meters long and displaced 9,750 tons.
On May 31, 1878, the King Wilhelm collided with the Great Elector during unit exercises off Folkestone in the English Channel , with the latter sank with 284 men of her crew. The flagship King Wilhelm as well as the Prussians and the Great Elector sailed in two parallel lines off Folkestone towards Plymouth , with the Great Elector alone in the port line. When two small boats suddenly appeared in front of them, the King Wilhelm and the Great Elector were forced to evade. The König Wilhelm turned to port , but the Großer Kurfürst to starboard ; the officer on watch on the King Wilhelm had misunderstood the order. The larger King Wilhelm rammed the Great Elector and tore open its side. Since the bulkheads and the gun ports were not closed, the ship sank within a very short time.
Captain Curt von Prittwitz, who was also employed as an officer on watch, experienced this serious shipwreck on board the König Wilhelm . 14 years later, on October 1st, 1892, he took over the command of this flagship of the German Navy with the rank of sea captain for two years and sailed not only in German waters, but also to Norway , Scotland and the Orkneys .
Big cruiser
1897 was King William at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg with removal of the entire rigging rebuilt and the Great cruiser reclassified first class. The armament now consisted of 22 24-cm ring cannons, one 15-cm cannon and 18 8.8-cm rapid-loading guns. The ship was 108 meters long at the waterline, 18 meters wide and 8.54 meters deep . The crew consisted of 732 men.
The ship was decommissioned in 1904, then served first in Kiel and then at the torpedo station in Flensburg - Mürwik as a residential hulk . In 1917 it was also used there as a film set for the propaganda film Hein Petersen, from cabin boy to sailor . The ship was finally broken up in Rönnebeck in 1921 .
Picture gallery
The great cruiser King Wilhelm , 1890
The anchor is exhibited in Cuxhaven at the "Alte Liebe"
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literature
- Erich Gröner: The German warships 1815-1945. Volume 1: Armored ships, ships of the line, battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers, gunboats. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, 1998. ISBN 3-7637-4800-8
- Tony Gibbons: The Complete Encyclopedia of Battleships and Battlecruisers: A Technical Directory of All the World's Capital Ships From 1860 to the Present Day. London: Salamander Books, Ltd., 1983. ISBN 0-86101-142-2 .
