SMS Württemberg (1878)
Lithograph of SMS Württemberg in 1902 | |
| History | |
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| German Empire | |
| Name | SMS Württemberg |
| Builder | AG Vulcan in Stettin |
| Laid down | November 1876 |
| Launched | 9 November 1878 |
| Commissioned | 9 May 1881 |
| Fate | Broken up, 1920 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Sachsen-class ironclad |
| Displacement | 7,677 t (7,556 long tons; 8,462 short tons) |
| Length | 98.2 m (322 ft 2 in) |
| Beam | 18.4 m (60 ft 4 in) |
| Draft | 6.32 m (20 ft 9 in) |
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| Propulsion | |
| Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
| Range | 1,940 nmi (3,590 km; 2,230 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
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SMS Württemberg was one of four Sachsen-class armored frigates of the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy). Her sister ships were Sachsen, Bayern, and Baden. Württemberg was built in the AG Vulcan shipyard in Stettin from 1876 to 1881. The ship was commissioned into the Imperial Navy in August 1881. She was armed with a main battery of six 26 cm (10.2 in) guns in two open barbettes.
After her commissioning, Württemberg served with the fleet on numerous training exercises and cruises. She participated in several cruises escorting Kaiser Wilhelm II on state visits to Great Britain and to various cities in the Baltic Sea in the late 1880s and early 1890s. During 1898–1899, the ship was modernized at the Imperial Dockyard in Kiel; she served for another seven years with the fleet before being withdrawn from active service in 1906. She was subsequently used in a variety of secondary roles, until she was sold in 1920 and broken up for scrap.