SMS Siegfried
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 Siegfried's sistership, Beowulf |
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| Career (German Empire) |  |
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| Name: | Siegfried |
| Laid down: | 1888 |
| Launched: | 10 August 1889 |
| Completed: | 19 April 1890 |
| Decommissioned: | Hulked, 1916 |
| Fate: | scrapped, 1919 |
| General characteristics as built | |
| Class and type: | Siegfried-class coast defense ship |
| Displacement: | 3,500 metric tons (3,400 long tons) |
| Length: | 76.4 m (250.7 ft) waterline; 79 m (259.2 ft) overall |
| Beam: | 14.9 m (48.9 ft) |
| Draft: | 5.7 m (18.7 ft) |
| Installed power: | 4,800 ihp (3,600 kW) |
| Propulsion: |
2 shafts, 2 Triple-expansion steam engines |
| Speed: | 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
| Range: | 4,800 nmi (8,900 km; 5,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement: | 276 |
| Armament: |
3 × 1 - 240 mm (9.4 in) guns |
| Armor: | Waterline belt: 180–240 mm (7.1–9.4 in) Deck: 30 mm (1.2 in) Gun turrets: 200 mm (7.9 in) Barbettes: 200 mm (7.9 in) Conning tower: 180 mm (7.1 in) |
SMS Siegfried was the first of the Siegfried class of armoured coastal defence ships (Küstenpanzerschiffe) built for the German Imperial Navy between 1889 and 1895. The others in the class were SMS Beowulf, SMS Frithjof, SMS Heimdall, SMS Hildebrand, SMS Hagen, SMS Odin, and SMS Ägir. She was scrapped along with her sister ships in 1919.
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