SMS Friedrich Carl
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 German Empire
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| Name: | Friedrich Carl |
| Namesake: | Prince Friedrich Carl |
| Builder: | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg |
| Cost: | 15.665.000 mark |
| Yard number: | 155 |
| Laid down: | 1900 |
| Launched: | 21 June 1902 |
| Commissioned: | 12 December 1903 |
| Fate: | Mined and sunk 17 November 1914 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Prinz Adalbert-class cruiser |
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| Length: | 126.5 m (415 ft 0.31 in) |
| Beam: | 19.6 m (64 ft 3.65 in) |
| Draft: | 7.43 m (24 ft 4.52 in) |
| Propulsion: | 17,272 ihp (12,880 kW), three shafts |
| Speed: | 20.4 knots (38 km/h) |
| Range: | 5,080 nautical miles (9,410 km; 5,850 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement: | 35 officers, 551 men |
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SMS Friedrich Carl was a German armored cruiser built in the early 1900s for the Imperial German Navy. She was the second ship of the Prinz Adalbert class. Friedrich Carl was built in Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg. She was laid down in 1901, and completed in December 1903, at the cost of 15,665,000 Marks. She was armed with a main battery of four 21 cm (8.3 in) guns and was capable of a top speed of 20.4 kn (37.8 km/h; 23.5 mph).
The ship served with the German fleet after her commissioning before being used as a torpedo training ship in 1909. In August 1914 after the outbreak of World War I, she was brought back to active service to act as Rear Admiral Behring's flagship in the Baltic Sea. Her wartime career was cut short on 17 November when she struck a pair of Russian mines off Memel at 55°41′N 20°11′E / 55.683°N 20.183°ECoordinates: 55°41′N 20°11′E / 55.683°N 20.183°E. The mines caused fatal damage, but the ship sank slowly enough to permit the safe evacuation of most of the crew; only seven men were killed in the incident.
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