Victoria Louise Class Cruiser (1897)
From The Dreadnought Project
The five protected cruisers of the Victoria Louise class were completed in 1898 and 1899.
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| Name | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Completed | Fate |
| Victoria Louise | AG Weser, Bremen | 1895 | 29 Mar, 1897 | 20 Feb, 1898 | Sold c. Oct 1919 |
| Hertha | AG Vulcan, Stettin | 1895 | 14 Apr, 1897 | 23 Jul, 1898 | Broken up 1920 |
| Freya | Danzig NYd | 1895 | 27 Apr, 1897 | 20 Oct, 1898 | Broken up 1921 |
| Vineta | Danzig NYd | 1895 | 14 Apr, 1897 | 13 Sep, 1899 | Broken up 1920 |
| Hansa | AG Vulcan, Stettin | 1895 | 12 Mar, 1898 | 20 Apr, 1899 | Broken up 1920 |
Contents
Design & Construction
Designed from 1893 to 1895.[1]
Performance
The Victoria Louises were good, dry seaboats with a easy motion, although they tended to pitch when steaming downwind and suffered severe leeway because of their large superstructures. However, their seakeeping qualities deteriorated badly as their lower coal bunkers were emptied.[2]
Armament
As Completed
- Two 210mm/40 aliber quick-firing guns
- Eight 150mm/0 caliber quick-firing guns
- Ten 88mm/30 caliber quick-firing guns
- Ten 37mm Maxim machine guns
- Three 450mm torpedo tubes, eight torpedoes
c. 1900
- Two 210mm/40 caliber quick-firing guns
- Six 150mm/40 caliber quick-firing guns
- Eleven 88mm/30 caliber quick-firing guns
- Three 450mm torpedo tubes, eight torpedoes
Post-1916
- Nil
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 47.
- ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 47.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 254.
- ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 47.
Bibliography
- Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
- Gray, Randal (editor) (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
- Gröner, Erich (revised and expanded by Dieter Jung and Martin Maass) (1990). German Warships 1815-1945. Volume One: Major Surface Vessels. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.
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