SMS Bismarck
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| History |
 German Empire
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| Name: |
SMS Bismarck |
| Builder: |
Norddeutsche Schiffbau, Kiel |
| Laid down: |
1875 |
| Launched: |
25 July 1877 |
| Completed: |
27 August 1878 |
| Decommissioned: |
21 September 1891 |
| Fate: |
Scrapped, 1920 |
| General characteristics |
| Class and type: |
Bismarck-class corvette |
| Displacement: |
3,332 t (3,279 long tons) |
| Length: |
82.5 m (270 ft 8 in) |
| Beam: |
13.7 m (44 ft 11 in) |
| Draught: |
6.18 m (20 ft 3 in) |
| Installed power: |
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| Propulsion: |
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| Speed: |
12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Range: |
1,940 nmi (3,590 km; 2,230 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement: |
404 |
| Armament: |
16 × 15 cm (5.9 in) guns |
SMS Bismarck was a Bismarck-class corvette built for the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) in the late 1870s.
Notes
References
- Gardiner, Robert; Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-133-5.
- Gröner, Erich (1990). German Warships: 1815–1945. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-790-9. OCLC 22101769.
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- Preceded by: Leipzig class
- Followed by: Carola class
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