SMS Heimdall underway |
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| Career (German Empire) | |
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| Name: | Heimdall |
| Namesake: | Heimdall |
| Builder: | Kaiserliche Werft, Wilhelmshaven |
| Laid down: | 2 November 1891 |
| Launched: | 27 July 1892 |
| Commissioned: | 1893 |
| Fate: | Scrapped at Rönnebeck, 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 Heimdall (known during its construction as fourth class ironclad U or Panzerschiff IV. Klasse U) was a coastal defence ship of the Kaiserliche Marine. It was the fourth 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 Heimdall, a god in Norse mythology.
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Its construction began at the Kaiserliche Werft in Wilhelmshaven on 2 November 1891 and nearly nine months later, on 27 July 1892, it was ready for its launch, which was carried out personally by Wilhelm II of Germany himself. The topping-out and completion of the ship was only accomplished in the new year of 1894.
In 1912 the SMS Friedrich der Grosse was launched to replace the SMS Heimdall.
The ship was disarmed in 1916 and from then until the end of the war was used as the base ship for 4th U-Boat Flotilla (as well as, from December 1917, the base ship for the Ems Vorpostenboot Flotilla). On 17 June 1919 it was struck from the list of warships. It was planned to turn it into a lifting vessel, but this was not implemented, and instead it was scrapped in 1921 at Rönnebeck.
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