SMS Wiesbaden (1917)

Wiesbaden

Ship data flag  German Empire Ship type Small cruiser class Cöln class Shipyard AG Vulcan , Szczecin Build number 433 Launch March 3, 1917 Whereabouts Not completed, broken up in 1920

Ship dimensions and crew length 155.5 m ( Lüa ) 149.8 m ( KWL ) width 14.2 m Draft Max. 6.43 m displacement Construction: 5,620 t, maximum: 7,486 t   crew 559 men

Machine system machine 14 × water tube boilers 2 × steam turbine Machine performance 31,000 PS (22,800 kW) Top speed 27.5 kn (51 km / h) propeller 2 three-winged ø 3.5 m

Armament 8 × Sk 15.0 cm L / 45 (1,040 shots) 3 × Flak 8.8 cm L / 45 4 × torpedo tube ø 60.0 cm (8 shots) 200 sea ​​mines Armor Belt: 18-60 mm Deck : 20-60 mm Collision bulkhead: 40 mm Ammunition socket : 20 mm Command tower: 20–100 mm Shields: 50 mm

SMS Wiesbaden was a small cruiser of the Imperial Navy . She was the second ship of the Cöln class and was named after the small cruiser Wiesbaden of 1915, which was sunk in the Battle of the Skagerrak .

history

Originally planned as a replacement for Nuremberg , which was sunk in the naval battle near the Falkland Islands, in the war building program, the ship was laid down in 1915 at AG Vulcan Stettin . On March 3, 1917, when it was launched , which took place without the usual festivities, it was christened Wiesbaden . The rest of the construction went very slowly, which is why the ship did not come into service until the end of the war. The Wiesbaden shared this fate with seven other ships of her class, which also remained unfinished due to a lack of material and personnel at the shipyards. Construction work had to be stopped in December 1918, five months before the planned completion.

On November 17, 1919, the Wiesbaden was again deleted from the fleet list. Existing conversion plans were not implemented and the unfinished cruiser was scrapped in 1920.

literature

• Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945 . tape 1 : Armored ships, ships of the line, battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers, gunboats . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7637-4800-8 , p. 143 .
• Hans H. Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships . Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present . tape 8 : Ship biographies from Undine to Zieten . Mundus Verlag, Ratingen, S. 84 (Licensed edition by Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg, approx. 1990).

Footnotes

1. ↑ Hans H. Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships . Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present . tape 2 : Ship biographies from Baden to Eber . Mundus Verlag, Ratingen, S. 183 (Licensed edition by Koehler's Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg, approx. 1990).