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| + | When the British examined the ship, they discovered that all three tubes were of different design. The forward submerged flat had apparently been quite large before the ship was mined. After, this flat was divided into many small store rooms. The forward tube was end-loaded using a long tray. | ||
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| + | The aft flat was fully 17 feet high. The starboard broadside tube was longer than the port one, and a complete side loader. The port tube had a rear door and small 4 foot rammer. External angling gear was fitted, but many parts of this gear were missing when examined. Apparently, gyro angles could range from 30 degrees forward of the tube and 60 degrees aft. An electric gyro angle receiver and reply was alongside. There was storage for a total of thirteen torpedoes plus the two in the tubes. The tubes could be fired and controlled from fore and aft conning towers and also from No. 1 and 3 casemates, each side.{{ARTS1919|pp. 103, 104}} | ||
==Fire Control== | ==Fire Control== | ||
Revision as of 15:21, 2 August 2013
| Overview of 4 vessels | |||||
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| Citations for this data available on individual ship pages | |||||
| Name | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Completed | Fate |
| Baden | 1915 | ||||
| Bayern | 1913 | ||||
| Sachsen | 1916 | ||||
| Württemberg | 1917 | ||||
Armament
Torpedoes
- one submerged tube forward
- two submerged broadside tubes aft, angled forward 22 degrees
When the British examined the ship, they discovered that all three tubes were of different design. The forward submerged flat had apparently been quite large before the ship was mined. After, this flat was divided into many small store rooms. The forward tube was end-loaded using a long tray.
The aft flat was fully 17 feet high. The starboard broadside tube was longer than the port one, and a complete side loader. The port tube had a rear door and small 4 foot rammer. External angling gear was fitted, but many parts of this gear were missing when examined. Apparently, gyro angles could range from 30 degrees forward of the tube and 60 degrees aft. An electric gyro angle receiver and reply was alongside. There was storage for a total of thirteen torpedoes plus the two in the tubes. The tubes could be fired and controlled from fore and aft conning towers and also from No. 1 and 3 casemates, each side.[1]
Fire Control
The British inspected Baden and Bayern after the Armistice. Their reports[2] contained the following information.
See Also
Footnotes
Bibliography
- Breyer, Siegfried (1973). Battleships and Battle Cruisers, 1905–1970. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company Inc. ISBN 0385-0-7247-0.
- Goodall, Stanley Vernon (1921). "The Ex-German Battleship Baden". Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects LXIII: pp. 13–32.
- Grießmer, Axel (1999). Linienschiffe der Kaiserlichen Marine 1906-1918: Konstructionen zwischen Rüstungskonkurrenz und Flottengesetz. Bonn: Bernard & Graefe Verlag. ISBN 3-7637-5985-9.
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