SMS WITTELSBACH

SMS WITTELSBACH

German Kaiserliche Marine ( Imperial Navy)

Class…………………………… Wittelsbach-class pre-dreadnought battleship

Builder………………………… Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven

Yard number……………….

Laid down.…………………. 30 Sept 1899

Launched….………………… 3 July 1900

Completed.…………………. 15 Oct 1902

Propulsion.………………….. 3 shafts: 3 Vertical Triple Expansion Steam Engines : 6 water-tube boilers + 6 cylindrical boilers

Speed..………………………… 17.0 knots

Range………………………….. 5000nm at 10.0 knots

Fate

1916: Considered obsolete and of no real military value and was reduced to an exercise ship.

1919: Re-fitted by Reichsmarine as a depot ship for minesweepers. She carried 12 `F-boats' (minesweeping motor launches).

March 1921: Stricken by the Reichsmarine, sold for scrap four months later and broken up.

 

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