Wiesbaden class
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| Class details | |
| Ship type: | Small cruiser |
| Period of service: | 1915-1919 |
| Units: | 2 |
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SMS Wiesbaden SMS Frankfurt |
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| Technical specifications | |
| Length: | over all: 145.3 m, waterline: 141.7 m |
| Width: | 14.0 m |
| Draft: | 4.9 meters |
| Displacement : | Construction: 5,150 t Maximum: 6,601 t |
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| Speed: | 27.5 kn |
| Range: | 4,800 nm at 12 kn |
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| Crew: | 474 men |
The Wiesbaden class was a type of small cruiser of the Imperial Navy , which was designed in 1912. It consisted only of the two units SMS Wiesbaden and SMS Frankfurt , named after the cities of Wiesbaden and Frankfurt am Main in the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau . Both ships entered service in 1915. The SMS Wiesbaden was sunk a year later in the Battle of the Skagerrak . The SMS Frankfurt was delivered to the Allies after the end of the First World War and sunk in 1921 during tests with aerial bombs.
draft
The Wiesbaden class ships were quite similar to those of the Graudenz class . With a length of 145.30 m, a width of 13.90 m and a displacement of 5,180 t, they were only slightly larger than their predecessors. The three chimneys were a bit more voluminous and were a little closer to the bridge. The propulsion system remained the same with ten coal-fired and two oil-fired water-tube boilers and two sets of marine turbines.
Instead of seven 15 cm cannons, eight were installed in the armament. The eighth gun was set up on the foredeck, so that there were now two 15 cm cannons next to each other. This is a clear external distinguishing feature. In the Graudenz class, there was only one cannon of this caliber in the middle of the foredeck. Otherwise, the Wiesbaden class also had two 8.8 cm guns and four 50 cm torpedo tubes (two of them under water) as additional armament.
literature
- Erwin Strohbusch: Warship building since 1848. German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven 1984
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