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Helgoland
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| Name: | Helgoland |
| Namesake: | Battle of Heligoland |
| Builder: | Naval Dockyard, Copenhagen |
| Laid down: | 20 May 1876 |
| Launched: | 9 May 1878 |
| Commissioned: | 20 August 1879 |
| Decommissioned: | 29 June 1907 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1907 at Dordrecht |
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| Type: | Barbette ironclad |
| Displacement: | 5,480 tonnes (5,390 long tons) |
| Length: | 79.17 m (259 ft 9 in) |
| Beam: | 18.05 m (59 ft 3 in) |
| Draft: | 5.9 m (19 ft) |
| Installed power: | 4,000 ihp (3,000 kW) |
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| Speed: | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
| Range: | 1,400 nmi (2,600 km; 1,600 mi) at 9 kn (17 km/h; 10 mph) |
| Complement: | 350 |
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The Danish ironclad Helgoland was a coast defence barbette ironclad named for the Danish victory over the combined Prussian and Austro-Hungarian squadron at Battle of Heligoland during the Second Schleswig War in 1864.