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SMS ''Yorck'' ("His Majesty's Ship Yorck")〔"SMS" is the abbreviation of "Seiner Majestät Schiff" ("His Majesty's Ship").〕 was the second and final ship of the of armored cruisers built for the German Imperial Navy. ''Yorck'' was named for Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg, a Prussian field marshal. She was laid down in 1903 at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg, and finished in November 1905, at the cost of 16,241,000 marks. She displaced up to and was armed with a main battery of four . Her top speed was . The ship had a short career; she served with the fleet for the first seven years, after which she was decommissioned and placed in reserve. After the outbreak of World War I, she was reactivated and returned to front-line service. After returning from the raid on Yarmouth on 3–4 November 1914, the ship made a navigational error in heavy fog and accidentally sailed into a German defensive minefield. The ship sank quickly with heavy loss of life, though sources disagree on the exact number of fatalities. Her commander was court-martialled and imprisoned for disobedience and negligent homicide. ''Yorck'' was broken up incrementally, with work occurring in 1929–30, 1965, and finally completed in 1982. ==Construction== (詳細はBlohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg under construction number 167.〔Gröner, p. 51〕 Her keel was laid in 1902 and she was launched on 14 May 1904. Fitting-out work was completed by 21 November 1905, being commissioned into the Imperial German Navy the same day.〔Gardiner & Chesneau, p. 255〕 She had cost the Imperial German Government 16,241,000 ''Goldmarks''.〔 ''Yorck'' 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 developed 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, four in single turrets arranged two each on either side, the rest in casemates amidships, fourteen 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 Yorck」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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