SMS Beowulf |
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| Career (German Empire) | |
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| Name: | Beowulf |
| Namesake: | Beowulf |
| Builder: | AG Weser's works in Bremen |
| Laid down: | January 1890 |
| Launched: | 8 November 1890 |
| Commissioned: | 1 April 1892 |
| Fate: | Scrapped at Danzig, 1921 |
| 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) |
The SMS Beowulf (known during its construction as fourth class ironclad P or Panzerschiffs IV. Klasse P) was a coastal defence ship of the Kaiserliche Marine. It was the second ship of the Siegfried class, all of which were originally classified as fourth class ironclads but redesignated coastal defence ships in 1899. It was named after the protagonist of the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf.
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Her construction began in January 1890 at AG Weser's works in Bremen and she was launched on 8 November the same year by the director of the naval department of the Reichsmarineamt, Konteradmiral Hans von Koester. Completed in autumn 1891, she then began her sea trials on an unknown date and commissioned on 1 April 1892, with Prince Henry of Prussia (Wilhelm II of Germany's brother) as her first captain.
The Beowulf was struck from the list of warships on 17 June 1919 and sold to the Norddeutsche Tiefbaugesellschaft in Berlin. It was scrapped in 1921 in Danzig.
| 1 April to September 1892 | Kapitän zur See Prince Henry of Prussia |
| September to December 1892 | Korvettenkapitän von Kries |
| December 1892 to September 1893 | Korvettenkapitän Rudolf von Eickstedt |
| September 1893 to January 1894 | Kapitänleutnant Otto Hoepner (skeleton crew) |
| February to 2 October 1894 | Korvettenkapitän / Kapitän zur See Alfred Gruner |
| 1 August to September 1895 | Korvettenkapitän Karl Ascher |
| September 1895 to September 1896 | Korvettenkapitän Eduard Holzhauer |
| September to 13 November 1896 | Korvettenkapitän August von Heeringen |
| 3 August to October 1897 | Korvettenkapitän August von Dassel |
| October 1897 to July 1898 | Korvettenkapitän Hugo Emsmann |
| July to September 1898 | Fregattenkapitän Wilhelm Kindt |
| September to November 1898 | Korvettenkapitän Hugo Emsmann |
| November 1898 to 23 March 1900 | Korvettenkapitän Hermann Lilie |
| 1 July to 25 September 1902 | Fregattenkapitän Carl Paschen |
| 8 July to September 1903 | Fregattenkapitän Hartwig von Dassel |
| September 1903 to 23. September 1904 | Korvettenkapitän / Fregattenkapitän Franz von Holleben |
| 22 July to 15 September 1909 | Kapitän zur See Gottfried Freiherr von Dalwigk zu Lichtenfels |
| 12 August 1914 to March 1916 | Fregattenkapitän Ebert |
| March 1916 to 12 March 1917 | Kapitänleutnant Franz Strauch |
| 12. December 1917 to July 1918 | Kapitänleutnant Franz Wilde |
| Juli to 30 November 1918 | Korvettenkapitän Schultze-Jena |
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