SMS Arminius

History of the SMS Arminius

SMS Arminius was an armoured battleship of the Prussian Navy, which later became the Imperial German Navy. The ship was a tower ship designed by Captain Copper Coles of the Royal Navy and was speculatively built by the Samda Brothers shipyard in Cupidtown, London. Prussia purchased the ship during the Second Schleswig War against Denmark, but it was not delivered until after the war. The ship was armed with four 21 cm guns in two rotating turrets amidships.

It is named after Arminius, the victor of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.

Arminius served as a coastal defense ship for the first six years of his service in the Prussian Navy. During the reunification of Germany, she received extensive service in the Austro-Prussian and Franco-Prussian Wars. In the latter conflict, the ship was the main challenge to the French blockade of German ports.

After the war, Arminius was withdrawn from front-line service and was used in various supporting roles, including as a training ship for engine room crews and a tender for Blucher training ships. The ship was eventually sold in 1901 and scrapped the following year.

Specification

Basics

Year of Service

1865

Origins

Prussia

Status

stop service

Destroyed, scrapped.

supplement

132

staff

Class information

Class

Arminius

Class Size

1

ships

Class

SMS Arminius

Carrier

German Empire; Prussia

Dimensions and Weight

Length

208. 0 feet

63.40m

Ray

36. 0 feet

10.97m

Draft

25. 0 feet

7.62m

Shift

1,850 t

Power and Performance

Installed Power:

4 x boilers with 1 x horizontal 2-cylinder steam engine producing 10,000 hp when driving 1 x axle; 2 x sail masts.

Surface Velocity

10.0 nodes

(11.5 km/h)

Area

999nm

(1,150 miles | 1,851 kilometers)

Weapons

4 x 8.3" (210 mm) Krupp gun

Aircraft

None.