...Coastal armoured ship in English. In other words, a coastal defence battleship.
These vessels were Imperial Germany's primary naval coastal defence force, and comprised S.M.S. Siegfried, Hildebrand, Beowulf, Hagen, Frithjof, Heimdall, Ägir, and Odin. Displacing 4,150 tons and capable of 15 1/2 knots, they had three 24cm/9.4 inch guns mounted in three turrets, the two forward turrets being side by side. Ten 8.8cm secondary guns completed the armament.
They are such a delightful oddity I'm going to scratch-build a couple for my pre-Dreadnaught naval forces in my on again/off again series of linked games.
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I look forward to seeing these rise from your shipwrights and their efforts.
That’s a wonderful picture AJ. Looking forward to seeing how the scratch built model turns out.
Thanks, gentlemen! Looking at the dimensions they'll be a bit fiddly, being 259 feet long, which works out at a smidge over 1 1/2 inches in 1/2400. That's barely longer than some light cruisers. The designers tried to pack a lot of firepower into a small hull.
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