SMS Baden

Type:
Battleship
Class:
Builder:
F. Schichau
Danzig, Germany
Pennant Number:
N/A
Ordered:
N/A
Commissioned:
October 19, 1916
Keel Laid:
September 29, 1913
Decommissioned:
N/A
Launched:
October 30, 1915
Stricken:


N/A
Fate:
Sunk as target Aug. 16, 1921 southwest of Portsmouth, England.
(Interned at Scapa Flow with the High Seas Fleet)


Dimensions, machinery and performance

Length:
590' 6"
Engines:
2 marine type steam turbines
Beam:
98' 4"
Boilers:
Schulz-Thorneycroft
Draft:
28' 6"
Shafts:
3
Displacement:
28,330 std. / 31,950 full
SHP:
48,000
Speed:
22 knots
Crew:
1,271
Range:
5,000 NM @ 10 knots


Armament As Built
Number Carried
Type
Arrangement
Maximum Range / Ceiling
8
15"/45 (380mm)
SK L/45
4 twin turrets
25,370 yards @20° (14.4 miles)
(when used as coastal artillery max
range 52,000 yards)

16
5.9"/45 (150mm)
SK L/45

single mounts
19,250 yards @ 30°
4
3.5"/45 (88mm)
SK L/45

single mounts
12,900 yards @ 45°
5
23.6" (60cm)
torpedo tubes
single tubes
all submerged
4 broadside 1 bow
H-8 torpedoes
6,550 yards @ 36 knots
15,310 yards @ 30 knots
463 lb. Hexanite charge


Notes
June 21, 1919:
Scuttled at Scapa Flow with the High Seas Fleet but towed to shallow water and raised
in July 1919.


Builder's Data
Page published Oct. 11, 2011