SMS Prince Heinrich
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| Ship data | ||
| Ship type |
Armored cruiser Large cruiser |
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| Ship class | Single ship | |
| Construction designation: | Big cruiser A | |
| Keel laying : | December 1898 | |
| Launching ( ship christening ): | March 22, 1900 | |
| Commissioning: | March 11, 1902 | |
| Whereabouts: | January 25, 1920 deleted, scrapped in Rendsburg | |
| Builder: | Imperial shipyard Kiel | |
| Crew: | approx. 567 men | |
| Building-costs: | 16.6 million gold marks | |
| Technical specifications | ||
| Displacement : | Construction: 8,887 t maximum: 9,806 t |
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| Length: |
KWL : 124.9 m over all: 126.5 m |
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| Width: | 19.6 m | |
| Draft : | 7.65-8.07 m | |
| Boiler system : | 14 Dürr boiler | |
| Machinery: | 3 standing four-cylinder triple expansion steam engines |
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| Number of screws: Diameter of screws: |
3 (four-winged) central wave: 4.28 m outer wave : 4.65 m |
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| Shaft speed: | 125 rpm | |
| Machine power: | 15,000 PSi | |
| Top speed: | 19.9 kn | |
| Fuel supply: | 1,590 tons of coal and 175 tons of heating oil |
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| Range: | 4,580 nm at 10 kn 2,290 nm at 18 kn |
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| Armor | ||
| Belt armor: | 80-100 mm | |
| Deck: | 35–40 mm slopes: 50 mm |
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| Gun turrets: | horizontal: 30 mm vertical: 150 mm middle artillery : 100 mm |
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| Command post: | horizontal: 30 mm vertical: 150 mm |
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| Casemates : | 100 mm | |
| Citadel : | 100 mm | |
| Gun shields: | 70 mm | |
| Armament | ||
| 24 cm L / 40: | 2 in single towers | |
| Gun range 24 cm: | 169 hm | |
| 15 cm L / 40: | 10 | |
| 8.8 cm L / 30: | 10 | |
| Torpedo tubes Ø 45 cm: | 4th | |
| Commanders | ||
| Sea captain Friedrich-Wilhelm Wentzel | March 1902 to September 1903 | |
| Sea captain Erich Gühler | October 1903 to September 1904 | |
| Sea Captain Paul Rampold | October 1904 to February 1905 | |
| Sea captain Fritz Hoffmann | March 1905 to April 1906 | |
| Sea captain Gisbert Jaspers | May 15 to September 30, 1908 | |
| Lieutenant Captain Hans Erler | May 1908 to September 1909 | |
| Captain Karl von Bodecker | September 1909 to October 1909 | |
| Sea captain Otto Wurmbach | October 1909 to September 1911 | |
| Sea captain Ferdinand Bertram | September 1911 to October 1912 | |
| Sea captain Wilhelm von Krosigk | August 1914 to March 1915 | |
| Frigate Captain Karl Feldmann | November 1915 to December 1915 | |
SMS Prinz Heinrich was an armored cruiser ( Großer Kreuzer ) of the former Imperial Navy , named after Grand Admiral Prince Heinrich of Prussia . She was a single ship .
draft
Compared to the previous SMS Fürst Bismarck , the Prinz Heinrich displaced approx. 1,800 t less. The reduced tonnage, the speed of 20 knots and the heavy artillery consisting of only two 24 cm guns served the goal of reducing costs and resulted in a more cruiser-like design.
history
In the First World War the Prinz Heinrich belonged to III. Reconnaissance group and participated as part of the cover forces on December 16, 1914 in the coastal bombardment of Hartlepool by Seydlitz, Blücher and Moltke . From April 1915 she was stationed in the Baltic Sea region. It was there that she experienced her only battle when she shot at Russian destroyers near Zerel on August 10, 1915. At the end of 1915 she was withdrawn from active service due to her poor underwater protection and low speed and disarmed. From March 1916 she only served as a residential ship until she was sold for scrapping in 1920.
See also
literature
- Erwin Strohbusch : German Navy. Warship building since 1848. 2nd improved edition. German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven 1984 ( Guide of the German Maritime Museum 8, ZDB -ID 551539-7 ).
- Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung and Martin Maass: The German Warships 1815–1945 Volume 1 . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7637-4800-8 .
- Hans H. Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships. Volume 7, Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg
