Sachsen Class Ironclad (1877)
Four Sachsen class ironclads were completed for the Imperial German Navy between 1878 and 1883.
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| Name | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Completed | Fate |
| Sachsen | AG Vulcan, Stettin | 1875 | 21 Jul, 1877 | 20 Oct, 1878 | Sold 1919 |
| Bayern | Kiel Dockyard | 1874 | 13 May, 1878 | 4 Aug, 1881 | Sold 1919 |
| Württemberg | AG Vulcan, Stettin | 1876 | 9 Nov, 1878 | 9 May, 1881 | Sold 1921 |
| Baden | Kiel Dockyard | 1876 | 28 Jul, 1880 | 24 Sep, 1883 | Sold 23 Apr, 1938 |
Design & Construction
Designed by the Imperial German Navy between 1872 and 1874. The Sachsens were iron-hulled with both transverse and longitudinal framing with sixteen watertight compartments and a double bottom extending over 60 per cent of the hull. Their machinery consisted of two 3-cylinder horizontal single-expansion engines driving two four-bladed propellers and fed by eight trunk boilers.[1]
Performance
The Sachsens were quite manoeuverable, very responsive to helm changes and with a small tactical diameter. However they were generally poor seaboats, prone to severe rolling in beam seas and shipping large quantities of water owing to their low freeboard.[2]
Armament
As Completed[3][4]
- Six 260mm/22 caliber guns
- Six 87mm/24 caliber guns
- Eight 37mm Hotchkiss machine guns
1886[5][6]
- Six 260mm/22 caliber guns
- Six 87mm/24 caliber guns
- Eight 37mm Hotchkiss machine guns
- Three 350mm torpedo tubes, twelve torpedoes
As Rebuilt c. 1896[7][8]
- Six 260mm/22 caliber guns
- Eight 88mm/30 caliber quick-firing guns
- Eight 37mm Hotchkiss machine guns
- Three 350mm torpedo tubes, twelve torpedoes
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 7.
- ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 7.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 245.
- ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. pp. 8.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 245.
- ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. pp. 8.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 245.
- ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 8.
Bibliography
- Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
- Gray, Randal (editor) (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
- Gröner, Erich (revised and expanded by Dieter Jung and Martin Maass) (1990). German Warships 1815-1945. Volume One: Major Surface Vessels. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.
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