History | |
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German Empire | |
Name: | SMS Bismarck |
Builder: | Norddeutsche Schiffbau, Kiel |
Laid down: | 1875 |
Launched: | 25 July 1877 |
Completed: | 27 August 1878 |
Decommissioned: | 21 September 1891 |
Fate: | Scrapped, 1920 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Bismarck-class corvette |
Displacement: | 3,332 t (3,279 long tons) |
Length: | 82.5 m (270 ft 8 in) |
Beam: | 13.7 m (44 ft 11 in) |
Draught: | 6.18 m (20 ft 3 in) |
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Propulsion: |
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Speed: | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Range: | 1,940 nmi (3,590 km; 2,230 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement: | 404 |
Armament: | 16 × 15 cm (5.9 in) guns |
SMS Bismarck was a Bismarck-class corvette built for the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) in the late 1870s.