SMS Lothringen
SMS Lothringen in port
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 German Empire
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| Name: | Lothringen |
| Namesake: | Lorraine ("Lothringen" in German) |
| Builder: | Schichau, Danzig |
| Laid down: | December 1902 |
| Launched: | 27 May 1904 |
| Commissioned: | 18 May 1906 |
| Fate: | Scrapped in 1931 |
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| Class and type: | Braunschweig-class pre-dreadnought battleship |
| Displacement: | 14,394 t (14,167 long tons) |
| Length: | 127.7 m (419 ft) |
| Beam: | 22.2 m (73 ft) |
| Draft: | 8.1 m (27 ft) |
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| Speed: | 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
| Range: | 5,200 nautical miles (9,600 km; 6,000 mi); 10 knots (20 km/h; 10 mph) |
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SMS Lothringen was the fifth of five pre-dreadnought battleships of the Braunschweig class in the German Imperial Navy laid down in 1902 and commissioned 1906. She was named for the then German province of Lothringen, now Lorraine, a region of France. Her sister ships were Braunschweig, Elsass, Hessen, and Preussen.
Lothringen served in the II Battle Squadron of the German High Seas Fleet for the majority of her career. She participated in a fleet advance in December 1914 in support of the Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby during which the German fleet encountered and briefly clashed with a detachment of the British Grand Fleet. Her poor condition necessitated her withdrawal from fleet service in 1916, after which she was used as a guard ship in the Baltic Sea, and later as a training ship. After the war, Lothringen was retained by the re-formed Reichsmarine and converted into a depot ship for F-type minesweepers. She was stricken in March 1931 and sold to ship breakers later that year.
Lothringen was 127.7 m (419 ft) long overall and had a beam of 22.2 m (73 ft) and a draft of 8.1 m (27 ft) forward. The ship was powered by three 3-cylinder vertical triple expansion engines that drove three screws. Steam was provided by eight naval and six cylindrical boilers, all of which burned coal. Lothringen's powerplant was rated at 16,000 metric horsepower (15,781 ihp; 11,768 kW), which generated a top speed of 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph).
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