SMS Braunschweig

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SMS Braunschweig
Career (German Empire) Kaiser
Name: Braunschweig
Namesake: Braunschweig
Builder: Germaniawerft, Kiel
Laid down: October 1901
Launched: 20 December 1902
Commissioned: 15 October 1904
Fate: Scrapped in 1932
General characteristics
Class and type: Braunschweig-class battleship
Displacement: 14,167 tons
Length: 419 ft (128 m)
Beam: 73 ft (22 m)
Draught: 26 ft (7.9 m)
Propulsion: 3 shafts triple expansion
17,000 ihp
Speed: 19 knots (35 km/h)
Range: 5,200 nautical miles (10,000 km); 10 knots (20 km/h)
Complement: 743
Armament: 2 × 2 - 28 cm (11 in) SK L/40 guns
14 × 17 cm (6.7 in) guns
14 × 8.8 cm (3.5 in) guns
45 cm (18 in) torpedo tubes
Armor: Belt 9–4 inches
turrets 10 inches
deck 3 inches

SMS Braunschweig was the first of five pre-dreadnought battleships of the Braunschweig class in the Kaiserliche Marine laid down in 1901 and commissioned 1904. She was named after the city of Braunschweig, a former German duchy. Her sister ships were Elsaß, Hessen, Preußen, and Lothringen.

Service history

On 15 October 1904, Braunschweig was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy. She began service during World War I as a coastal defence ship in the Baltic from July 1915 and in August of the same year participated in the Battle of the Gulf of Riga, but was removed from front-line service in August 1917. Braunschweig was used as training ship until the end of the war.

Braunschweig served in the Reichsmarine from 1921 to 1926. She was taken out of service in 1931 and used as hulk in Wilhelmshaven before she was scrapped in 1932.

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