SMS Prinz Adalbert
Built Kiel Navy Dockyard, laid down April 1900, completed January 1904, cost 16,371,000 Marks
SMS Friedrich Carl
Built Blohm and Voss, Hamburg, laid down August 1901, completed December 1903. cost 15,665,000 Marks
Size:
Length 410 feet 4 inches waterline 415 feet 4 inches overall, beam 64 feet 4 inches, draught 25 feet 7 inches, displacement
9,087
load 9,875 tons full load.
Propulsion:
3 shaft Triple expansion engines, 16,200 ihp, 20 knots
Trials:
Prinz Adalbert 17,272 ihp = 20.4 knots
Friedrich Carl 18,541 ihp = 20.5 knots
Armour:
6in belt, 8in turret faces, 3-2in decks
Armament:
4 x 8.2in 40cal (2 x 2), 10 x 5.9in 40 cal (10 x 1), 12 x 3.45in 35 cal (12 x 1), 4 x 17.7in TT
Comments:
Similar to Prinz Heinrich but the belt was slightly more extensive and the single main guns were replaced with twin
gun turrets although of smaller calibre. Crew 586.
World War 1 Service:
Prinz Adalbert
III Scouting Group of the high Seas Fleet.
November 1914 transferred to Baltic.
23 October 1915 Torpedoed and sunk by the British submarine E8 west of Libau.
Friedrich Carl
August 1914 Refit.
September 1914 Operated in the Baltic.
17 November 1914 sunk by Russian mines near Memel.
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