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:''For other ships of the same name, see SMS Prinz Adalbert'' SMS ''Prinz Adalbert'' ("His Majesty's Ship ''Prince Adalbert''") was an armored cruiser built in the early 1900s for the German ''Kaiserliche Marine'' (Imperial Navy), named after Prince Adalbert of Prussia, former Commander-in-Chief of the Prussian Navy. She was the lead ship of her class, which included a second ship, . ''Prinz Adalbert'' was built at the Imperial Dockyard in Kiel. Her keel was laid in April 1900, and she was launched in June 1901. Her completion in January 1904 had been delayed by a surplus of construction projects at the Imperial Dockyard. She was armed with a main battery of four guns, a significant improvement over the previous armored cruiser, , which carried only two such guns. The ship was capable of a top speed of . Upon commissioning, ''Prinz Adalbert'' served as a gunnery training ship, a role she held for the majority of her career. She trained with the ''Heimatflotte'' (Home Fleet), later renamed the ''Hochseeflotte'' (High Seas Fleet), throughout the early 1900s, and she made several visits to foreign countries. After the outbreak of World War I in July 1914, she was assigned to the reconnaissance forces in the Baltic and was tasked with protecting the German coast from Russian attacks. After her sister ship was sunk in November 1914, she became the flagship of the cruiser squadron in the Baltic. She conducted operations against Russian forces, including bombarding the port of Libau in support of the German Army. She was torpedoed by a British submarine in July 1915, but was able to return to port and was repaired. She was torpedoed a second time on 23 October 1915; the torpedo detonated her ammunition magazines and destroyed the ship. She sank quickly with heavy loss of life; only three men were rescued from a crew of 675. This proved to be the worst German naval disaster in the Baltic during the war. ==Construction== (詳細はtriple-expansion steam engines, with steam provided by fourteen coal-fired boilers. The engines developed 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 . The ship's crew consisted of 35 officers and 551 enlisted men. She was armed with four arranged in two twin-gun turrets, one on either end of the superstructure, a significant improvement over the preceding design, , which carried only two guns in single turrets. Her secondary armament consisted of ten 15 cm (5.9 in) guns, twelve guns and four underwater torpedo tubes, one in the bow, one in the stern, and one on each beam. The ship was protected by a armored belt consisting of Krupp cemented armor, along with an armored deck that was thick. Her main battery turrets had faces thick. 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 Prinz Adalbert (1901)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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