German Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Schwaben
SMS Schwaben was the forth of the Wittelsbach-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial German Navy. Laid down in 1900, and completed in April 1904. During most of her active career, she was used as a gunnery training ship. With the start of World War One, Schwaben was moved to active duty serving with IV Battle Squadron along with her sisters Wittelsbach, Wettin, Zähringen, and Mecklenburg. She saw limited duty in the North Sea as a guard ship and in the Baltic Sea against Russian forces. The threat from British submarines forced the ship to withdraw from the Baltic in 1916. For the remainder of the war, Schwaben served as an engineering training ship for navy cadets. She was retained by the Reichsmarine after the war and reactivated from 1919 until June 1920, serving as a depot ship for F-type minesweepers in the Baltic. The ship was stricken from the navy list in March 1921 and sold for scrapping in that year.
| Displacement | Normal: 11,774 t (11,588 long tons) Full load: 12,798 t (12,596 long tons) |
| Length | 126.8 m (416 ft) (loa) |
| Beam | 22.8 m (74 ft 10 in) |
| Draft | 7.95 m (26 ft 1 in) |
| Installed power | 14,000 PS (13,810 ihp; 10,300 kW) 6 × water-tube boilers 6 × cylindrical boilers |
| Propulsion | 3 × triple-expansion steam engines 3 × screw propellers |
| Speed | 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
| Range | 5,000 nautical miles (9,300 km; 5,800 mi); 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 30 officers 650 enlisted men |
| Armament | 4 × 24 cm (9.4 in) guns (40 cal.) 18 × 15 cm (5.9 in) SK L/40 guns 12 × 8.8 cm (3.5 in) SK L/30 guns 6 × 45 cm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes |
| Armor | Belt: 100 to 225 mm (3.9 to 8.9 in) Turrets: 250 mm (9.8 in) Deck: 50 mm (2 in) |
