Danish ironclad Helgoland


Helgoland
Career
Name: HDMS Helgoland
Namesake: Battle of Heligoland
Builder: Naval Dockyard, Copenhagen
Laid down: 20 May 1876
Launched: 9 May 1878
Commissioned: 20 August 1879
Decommissioned: 29 June 1907
Fate: Scrapped 1907 at Dordrecht
General characteristics
Type: Barbette ironclad
Displacement: 5,480 tonnes (5,390 long tons)
Length: 79.17 m (259 ft 9 in)
Beam: 18.05 m (59 ft 3 in)
Draft: 5.9 m (19 ft)
Installed power: 4,000 ihp (3,000 kW)
Propulsion: 2 shafts, 2 Compound steam engines
8 cylindrical boilers
Speed: 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Range: 1,400 nmi (2,600 km; 1,600 mi) at 9 kn (17 km/h; 10 mph)
Complement: 350
Armament: 1 × 305 mm (12 in) gun
4 × 260 mm (10.2 in) guns
5 × 120 mm (4.7 in) guns
Armour: Belt: 152–315 mm (6.0–12.4 in)
Barbette: 260 mm (10.2 in)
Casemate: 260 mm (10.2 in)
Deck: 52 mm (2.0 in)

The Danish ironclad Helgoland was a coast defence barbette ironclad named for the Danish victory over the combined Prussian and Austro-Hungarian squadron at Battle of Heligoland during the Second Schleswig War in 1864.

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