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:''For the broadside ironclad, see '' SMS ''Friedrich Carl'' was a German armored cruiser built in the early 1900s for the Imperial German Navy. She was the second ship of the ''Prinz Adalbert'' class. ''Friedrich Carl'' was built in Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg. She was laid down in 1901, and completed in December 1903, at the cost of 15,665,000 Marks. She was armed with a main battery of four guns and was capable of a top speed of . The ship served with the German fleet after her commissioning before being used as a torpedo training ship in 1909. In August 1914 after the outbreak of World War I, she was brought back to active service to act as Rear Admiral Behring's flagship in the Baltic Sea. Her wartime career was cut short on 17 November when she struck a pair of Russian mines off Memel at . The mines caused fatal damage, but the ship sank slowly enough to permit the safe evacuation of most of the crew; only seven men were killed in the incident. ==Construction== (詳細はBlohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg under construction number 155.〔Gröner, p. 50〕 Her keel was laid in 1900 and she was launched on 22 June 1902. Fitting-out work followed and this was completed by 12 December 1903, the day she was commissioned into the Imperial German Navy.〔Gardiner & Chesneau, p. 255〕 She had cost the Imperial German Government 15,665,000 ''Goldmarks''.〔 ''Friedrich Carl'' displaced as built and fully loaded, with a length of , a beam of and a draft of forward. She was powered by three vertical triple expansion engines, which produced a total of and yielded a maximum speed of on trials. She carried up to of coal, which enabled a maximum range of up to at a cruising speed of .〔 She was armed with four arranged in two twin gun turrets, one on either end of the superstructure. Her secondary armament consisted of ten guns, twelve guns and four underwater torpedo tubes, one in the bow, one in the stern, and one on both beams.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SMS Friedrich Carl」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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