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SMS Prinzess Wilhelm
SMS ''Prinzess Wilhelm'' ("His Majesty's Ship ''Princess Wilhelm''") was a protected cruiser of the German Imperial Navy (''Kaiserliche Marine''). She was the second ; her only sister ship was . ''Prinzess Wilhelm'' was laid down in 1886 at the Germaniawerft shipyard in Kiel, launched in September 1887, and commissioned into the fleet in November 1889. As built, the ship was armed with a main battery of fourteen guns and had a top speed of .
In 1895, ''Prinzess Wilhelm'' was deployed to East Asian waters, where she frequently served as the flagship of the East Asia Cruiser Division. She was one of the three ships that participated in the seizure of Kiaochou Bay under the command of Rear Admiral Otto von Diederichs. She subsequently was present in the Philippines in the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Manila Bay between American and Spanish squadrons during the Spanish–American War in 1898. ''Prinzess Wilhelm'' returned to Germany in 1899 and was modernized in 1899–1903. She was reduced to a mine hulk in February 1914 and ultimately broken up for scrap in 1922.
==Design==
(詳細はprotected cruiser built by the German navy.〔 She was ordered under the contract name "''Ersatz'' " and was laid down at the Germaniawerft shipyard in Kiel in 1886.〔Gröner, p. 94〕 She was launched on 22 September 1887, after which fitting-out work commenced. She was commissioned into the German navy on 13 November 1889.〔 The ship was long overall and had a beam of and a draft of forward. She displaced at full combat load. Her propulsion system consisted of two horizontal AG Germania 2-cylinder double-expansion steam engines powered by four coal-fired cylindrical double-boilers. These provided a top speed of and a range of approximately at . She had a crew of 28 officers and 337 enlisted men.〔Gröner, pp. 94–95〕
The ship was armed with four 15 cm K L/30 guns in single pedestal mounts, supplied with 400 rounds of ammunition in total. They had a range of . ''Prinzess Wilhelm'' also carried ten shorter-barreled 15 cm K L/22 guns in single mounts. These guns had a much shorter range, at .〔 The gun armament was rounded out by six 3.7 cm revolver cannon.〔Gardiner, p. 253〕 She was also equipped with three torpedo tubes with eight torpedoes, two launchers were mounted on the deck and the third was in the bow, below the waterline.〔 In 1893, the ship was modernized in Wilhelmshaven in 1903; work lasted until 1905.〔 The ship's armament was significantly improved; the four L/30 guns were replaced with a new model with an increased range of . Eight 10.5 cm SK L/35 quick-firing (QF) guns were installed in place of the L/22 guns, and six 5 cm SK L/10 QF guns were added.〔Gröner, p. 95〕
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