HINDENBURG SMS
Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 8:48 pm
She was built as a battle cruiser on the Kaiserliche Werft, Wilhelmshaven for the German Navy.
30 June 1913 laid down.
01 August 1915 launched under the name SMS HINDENBURG, named after the General later President Paul von Hindenburg 1847-1934.
Displacement 26.513 design and 31.002 ton full load. Dim. 212.8 x 29.0 x 9.6m. (draught).
Powered by Parsons turbines, 95.777 shp., four propellers, speed 26.5 knots. 18 boilers.
Range 5.300 miles by 14 knots.
Fuel maximum 3.642 ton coal, 984 ton oil.
Armament 8 – 30.5cm QF, 14 – 15cm QF, 8 – 88mm QF guns later reduced to 4 – 88mm AA guns, 4 – 60cm torpedo tubes.
Complement 1.391.
Completed 10 May 1917. Building cost 59 million Mark.
She was the last German battlecruiser completed.
She came to late to take part in the Battle of Jutland, joined I Scouting Group.
The only time she sailed out for action was on 17 November 1917 when the British fleet entered the German Bay waters, but when the German battlecruisers arrived, the British Fleet retreated.
19 November 1918 together with other German warships she sailed out from Wilhelmshaven and were interned on 24 November 1918 in Scapa Flow.
21 June 1919 Rear-Admiral Ludwig von Reuter the German officer in command at Scapa Flow, did give the order to scuttle the German fleet, and at 17.00 GMT that day the HINDENBURG sank.
July 1930 salvaged, and scrapped.
Source: many web-sites. http://www.geocities/Heartland/1185/derfflin.html
30 June 1913 laid down.
01 August 1915 launched under the name SMS HINDENBURG, named after the General later President Paul von Hindenburg 1847-1934.
Displacement 26.513 design and 31.002 ton full load. Dim. 212.8 x 29.0 x 9.6m. (draught).
Powered by Parsons turbines, 95.777 shp., four propellers, speed 26.5 knots. 18 boilers.
Range 5.300 miles by 14 knots.
Fuel maximum 3.642 ton coal, 984 ton oil.
Armament 8 – 30.5cm QF, 14 – 15cm QF, 8 – 88mm QF guns later reduced to 4 – 88mm AA guns, 4 – 60cm torpedo tubes.
Complement 1.391.
Completed 10 May 1917. Building cost 59 million Mark.
She was the last German battlecruiser completed.
She came to late to take part in the Battle of Jutland, joined I Scouting Group.
The only time she sailed out for action was on 17 November 1917 when the British fleet entered the German Bay waters, but when the German battlecruisers arrived, the British Fleet retreated.
19 November 1918 together with other German warships she sailed out from Wilhelmshaven and were interned on 24 November 1918 in Scapa Flow.
21 June 1919 Rear-Admiral Ludwig von Reuter the German officer in command at Scapa Flow, did give the order to scuttle the German fleet, and at 17.00 GMT that day the HINDENBURG sank.
July 1930 salvaged, and scrapped.
Source: many web-sites. http://www.geocities/Heartland/1185/derfflin.html