SMS Wörth (1892)

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Liner SMS Wörth (around 1900)
Ship data
Ship type Ship of the line
Ship class Brandenburg class
Construction designation: Ironclad B
Keel laying : 1890
Launching ( ship christening ): August 6, 1892
Commissioning: October 31, 1893
Builder: Germania shipyard , Kiel
Crew: 568-591 men
Building-costs: 16.054 million marks
Sister ships: SMS Elector Friedrich Wilhelm
SMS Brandenburg
SMS Weißenburg
Technical specifications
Construction displacement : 10,060 tons
Maximum deployment displacement : 10,670 tons
Length: KWL : 113.9 m
over all: 115.7 m
Width: 19.5 m
Draft : 7.4 m
Machinery: 12 horizontal cylinder steam boilers with coal firing
2 vertical 3-cylinder triple expansion
steam engines
Number of screws : 2 three-leaf Ø 5.0 m
Shaft speed: 109 rpm
Power: 10,228 PSi
Top speed: 16.3 kn
Driving range: 4,300 nm at 10 kn
Fuel supply: Max. 1050 tons of coal
Armor
Belt armor: 305 - 406 mm
Deck: 60 mm
Towers: 127 mm
Control center: horizontal: 30 mm
vertical: 300 mm
Barbettes: 300 mm
Armament
Guns 28 cm: 6 (4 L / 40 + 2 L / 35)
jacket ring cannons
in three twin towers
with a total of 352 rounds
Gun range 28 cm: 15.9 km
Guns 10.5 cm L / 35: 8 with a total of 600 rounds
Guns 8,8 cm L / 35: 8 with a total of 2000 shots
Revolver cannons 3.7 cm: 12
Torpedo tubes Ø 45 cm: 6 (4 sides, 2 bow)
all over water

SMS Wörth was a ship of the line of the Brandenburg class of the Imperial Navy classifiedas an ironclad until 1899. The name was chosen to commemorate the Battle of Wörth in the Franco-German War on August 6, 1870.

The four ships of this class were the first radio- equipped ships in the German Navy and the first German warships to be equipped on a larger scale with nickel steel armor in the ship's belt up to 40 cm thick. The arrangement of the heavy artillery of six 28 cm guns in three twin turrets on the midship line enabled broadside fire with all guns on both sides. The following Kaiser Friedrich class again had the smaller caliber of 24 cm and only four guns fore and aft.

The Wörth was launched on August 6, 1892 and was christened by the sister of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Princess Victoria zu Schaumburg-Lippe . She took part in the autumn maneuvers of 1894 as the fleet flagship of the commanding admiral and chief of the training fleet Admiral Max von der Goltz .

In 1900 the Wörth was sent to China together with the II. Division to suppress the Boxer Rebellion , but without taking part in combat operations there. In August 1901 the division returned to Wilhelmshaven .

During the First World War, the ship belonged to the V Squadron under Vice Admiral Grapow and provided coastal protection service. From 1915 on, the technically outdated ship was used as a residential hulk in Gdansk . On March 10, 1919, it was removed from the list of warships and scrapped in Danzig.

Commanders

October 31, 1893 - April 28, 1894 Corvette Captain / KzS Felix Stubenrauch
August - September 1894 Corvette Captain Alfred Breusing
September 1894 - September 1895 Concentration camp Prince Heinrich of Prussia
September 18, 1895 - September 30, 1896 KK / KzS Hermann Kirchhoff
October 1896-1898 Concentration camp Curt von Prittwitz and Gaffron
October 1, 1898 - May 19, 1901 Concentration camp Ludwig Borckenhagen
May 19 - August 1901 Concentration camp August von Heeringen
August 1901 - September 27, 1904 for overhaul out of service
September 27, 1904 - July 1906 KzS Max von Grapow
July - 28th September 1906 KKpt Paul Jantzen (reduced crew, out of service from September 1906)
August 2 - September 28, 1910 KzS Karl Zimmermann (activation for autumn maneuvers)
July 31 - September 15, 1911 Frigate Captain Brüninghaus (activation for autumn maneuvers)
August 5, 1914 - April 1915 Klappenbach concentration camp
April - July 1915 Concentration camp Ferdinand Bertram
July 1915 - January 1916 FKpt Tietze
January 1916 KK zD Friedrich Schmid
January 1916 KzS Ferdinand Bertram (part-time tasked with taking on the command)
January - February 1916 KK beak
February 1916 - March KK Mehnert

literature

  • Hans H. Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships . Volume 6. 1st edition. Herford 1982, ISBN 3-7822-0237-6 , p. 56 ff.

Web links

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