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SMS Bayern |
Type: |
Battleship |
Class: |
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Builder: |
Howaldtswerke Kiel, Germany |
Pennant Number: |
N/A |
Ordered: |
N/A |
Commissioned: |
March 18, 1916 |
Keel Laid: |
September 20, 1913 |
Decommissioned: |
N/A |
Launched: |
February 18, 1915 |
Stricken: |
N/A |
Fate: |
Scrapped at Rosyth, Scotland in 1935. (Interned at Scapa Flow with the High Seas Fleet and scuttled on June 21, 1919) |
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Dimensions, machinery and performance |
Length: |
590' 6" |
Engines: |
2 marine type steam turbines |
Beam: |
98' 4" |
Boilers: |
Schulz-Thornycroft |
Draft: |
28' 6" |
Shafts: |
3 |
Displacement: |
28,330 std. / 31,950 full |
SHP: |
48,000 |
Speed: |
22 knots |
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Crew: |
1,271 |
Range: |
5,000 NM @ 10 knots |
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Armament As Built |
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Number Carried
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Type
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Arrangement |
Maximum Range / Ceiling |
8 |
15"/45 (380mm) SK L/45 |
4 twin turrets |
25,370 yards @20° (14.4 miles) |
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 |
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Oct. 12, 1917: |
Damaged by a mine in the Gulf of Riga off Oesel Island, Latvia. |
Sept. 1, 1934: |
Wreck raised. |
Class Overview |
Builder's Data |
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Page published Nov. 18, 2006 |