The Preussen class of ironclad turret ships was a class of three ships built for the German Imperial Navy in the early 1870s. The lead ship, Preussen, was...

SMS Preussen  was an ironclad turret ship built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy). The ship was built by the AG Vulcan shipyard in Stettin...

Grosse (1911), a Kaiser-class battleship with 24,700 ton displacement SMS Friedrich der Grosse (1874), a Preussen-class ironclad with 6,800 ton displacement...

(231): Parchim-class corvette Prerow (G413): Kondor-class minesweeper Preussen (1873): 6,800 ton Preussen-class ironclad, launched 1873 Preussen (1903): 13...

first ship of the Kaiserliche Werft (Serial No. 1) 1874/1878, Preussen-class ironclad SMS Grosser Kurfürst 1876/1879, Gunboats SMS Wolf and SMS Hyäne...

Große ) was an ironclad turret ship built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy). She was the second of three Preussen-class ironclads, in addition...

voyage when she was accidentally rammed by the ironclad SMS König Wilhelm. The two ships, along with SMS Preussen, were steaming in the English Channel on 31...

Kaiser Friedrich III-class battleship Meteor-class aviso Odin-class coastal defense ship Preussen-class ironclad Siegfried-class coastal defense ship...

the protected cruiser SMS Irene, the coastal defense ship Beowulf, the ironclad Sachsen and the pre-dreadnought battleship Wörth. From 1897, Prince Henry...

the projected Preussen-class ironclads, the 26 cm caliber was chosen, with the long 17 cm caliber as chase guns. The original Preussen class design would...

Sea coasts in wartime, Germany had previously built a series of smaller ironclad warships, including coastal defense ships, and armored frigates. With the...

the Prussian and later Imperial German Navies purchased or built sixteen ironclad warships. In 1860, however, the Prussian Navy consisted solely of wooden...

Wight. SMS Grosser Kurfürst  Imperial German Navy 31 May 1878 A Preussen-class ironclad turret ship sunk in a collision with the German armored frigate...

commissioned turret ironclad Grosser Kurfürst. The two ships, along with Preussen, had left Wilhelmshaven on the 29th. König Wilhelm and Preussen steamed in a...

first built ship 1873, CNo. 66, SMS Preussen, first ironclad warship build 1877, CNo. 74, SMS Sachsen, ironclad warship 1879, Russian steamboat Askold...

The Kaiser class of ironclad warships was a pair of vessels built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) in the early 1870s. The lead ship...

SMS Deutschland  was the second and final ship of the Kaiser-class ironclads; SMS Kaiser was her sister ship. Named for Germany (Deutschland in German)...

SMS Kaiser  was the lead ship of the Kaiser-class ironclads; SMS Deutschland was her sister ship. Named for the title "Kaiser" (German: Emperor), held...

the 17 cm and 26 cm RK L/22 guns. These guns were used on the Preussen-class ironclads. In early 1874, a second 28 cm gun entered into the tests. It had...

Liverpool Mercury. No. 10124. Liverpool. 23 June 1880. "Launch of an Ironclad". The Times. No. 28488. London. 2 December 1875. col F, p. 9. "Launch"...

Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-55750-352-7. Nottlemann, Dirk (2017). "From Ironclads to Dreadnoughts: The Development of the German Navy 1864–1918, Part VIII:...

attempted to secure funding from the Reichstag to replace the elderly ironclad Preussen, but parliamentary resistance delayed the appropriation until the...

class SMS Friedrich Carl, 1867 König Wilhelm class, (9,750 tons, 33 x 72pdr guns) SMS König Wilhelm, 1868 Hansa class SMS Hansa, 1872 Preussen class (6...

Wilhelm  Imperial German Navy The Preussen-class ironclad Großer Kurfürst was accidentally rammed by the ironclad König Wilhelm and sank off Folkestone...

ironclad König Wilhelm on 31 May 1878. The two ships (along with the ironclad Preussen) had been steaming off the coast of Great Britain, under the command...

Alert Alert-class gunboat For United States Navy. 20 September  Germany Kaiserliche Werft Kiel Friedrich der Grosse Preussen-class ironclad For Imperial...

warships, rather than traditional wood planking. The iron-hulled Preussen class of ironclad warships that had been begun in 1868 proved to be a success, as...

South Western Railway. 22 November  Germany AG Vulcan Stettin Preussen Preussen-class ironclad For Kaiserliche Marine. 24 November  United Kingdom Messrs...

identified the 17 cm RK L/20 as 17-cm 3.5 t. In Germany the ironclad ships of the Preussen class each had four 26 cm RK L/22 guns and two 17 cm RK L/25, one...

SMS Friedrich Carl  was an ironclad warship built for the Prussian Navy in the mid-1860s. The ship was constructed in the French Société Nouvelle des Forges...