SMS
Lothringen of the Braunschweig pre dreadnaught Battleship class.
was a bigger, heavier guns and faster than the Wittelsbach Class
battleships, The Braunschweig class autherised under the Naval
programme of 1900. launched on 27th may 1904 and commissioned into
the German navy on the 18th may 1906, served with the fleet until
1916 when the Lothringen became a coastal defence ship and in 1917
a exercise ship and engineer training ship at Wilhelmshaven.
and in 1919 became a depot ship for F-boats. after the war served
in the Reichsmarine between 1922 and 1926. and stricken 31st
march 1931 and sold for 269,650 marks. (less armament.) and broken
up by Blohm and Voss at Hamburg. late that year
Displacement: 14,167 tons,
Speed: 18.5 knots, Compliment: 743. Armament: Four 280mm
Guns, Fourteen 170mm Guns Eighteen 88mm Guns and four
machine guns, also Six 450mm Torpedo Tubes.