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SMS Brandenburg : ウィキペディア英語版 | SMS Brandenburg
SMS ''Brandenburg'' was the lead ship of the pre-dreadnought battleships, which included , , and built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) in the early 1890s. She was the first pre-dreadnought built for the German Navy; earlier, the Navy had only built coastal defense ships and armored frigates. The ship was laid down at the AG Vulcan dockyard in 1890, launched on 21 September 1891, and commissioned into the German Navy on 19 November 1893. ''Brandenburg'' and her three sisters were unique for their time in that they carried six heavy guns instead of the four that were standard in other navies. She was named after the Province of Brandenburg. ''Brandenburg'' saw her first major deployment in 1900, when she and her three sister ships were deployed to China to suppress the Boxer Rebellion. Upon returning to Germany, ''Brandenburg'' and her sisters, with the exception of ''Wörth'', took part in extensive fleet maneuvers in 1902. In the early 1900s, all four ships were heavily rebuilt. However, she was obsolete by the start of World War I, and only served in a limited capacity, initially as a coastal defense ship, but primarily as a barracks ship. Following the end of the war, ''Brandenburg'' was scrapped in Danzig in 1920. == Design == (詳細はbeam of and a draft of . ''Brandenburg'' displaced as designed, and up to at full combat load. She was equipped with two sets of 3-cylinder vertical triple expansion steam engines that produced and a top speed of on trials. Steam was provided by twelve transverse cylindrical water-tube boilers. She had a maximum range of at a cruising speed of . Her crew numbered 38 officers and 530 enlisted men. ''Brandenburg'' was armed with a main battery of six 28 cm (11 in) guns of two types. The forward and rear turret guns were 40 calibers long, while the amidships guns were only 35 calibers; this was necessary to allow them to train to either side of the ship. Her secondary armament initially consisted of seven 10.5 cm (4.1 in) guns, though an additional gun was added during the modernization in 1901. She also carried eight 8.8 cm (3.45 in) guns and six torpedo tubes. The ship was protected with compound armor. Her main belt armor was thick in the central section that protected the ammunition magazines and machinery spaces. The deck was thick. The main battery barbettes were protected with thick armor.
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