Dreadnought Battleships: Nassau Class

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Brian James
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Dreadnought Battleships: Nassau Class

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SMS Nassau pictured c1910....She was the first Dreadnought Battleship built for the Imperial German Navy, a response to the launching of the British Battleship HMS Dreadnought. Nassau was laid down on July 22nd 1907 at the Kaiserliche Werft Shipyards at Wilhelmshaven, and launched less than a year later on March 7th 1908, approximately 25 months after Dreadnought. She was the Lead Ship of her Class of four Battleships, which included Posen, Rheinland, and Westfalen.
Nassau saw service in the North Sea at the beginning of World War I, in the II Division of the I Battle Squadron of the German High Seas Fleet. In August 1915, she entered the Baltic Sea and participated in the Battle of the Gulf of Riga, where she engaged the Russian Battleship IRN Slava. Following her return to the North Sea, Nassau and her sister ships took part in the Battle of Jutland on May 31st – June 1st 1916. During the battle, Nassau collided with Acasta Class Destroyer HMS Spitfire. Nassau suffered a total of 11 killed and 16 injured during the engagement.
After World War I, the bulk of the High Seas Fleet was interned in Scapa Flow. As they were the oldest German Dreadnoughts, the Nassau Class ships were for the time permitted to remain in German ports. After the German fleet was scuttled, Nassau and her three sisters were surrendered to the victorious Allied powers as replacements for the sunken ships. Nassau was ceded to Japan in April 1920. With no use for the ship, Japan sold her to a British wrecking firm which then scrapped her in Dordrecht, Netherlands.
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Re: Dreadnought Battleships: Nassau Class

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The design of the NASSAU's was very conservative. In lieu of turbines, they remained with reciprocating engines. The old style machinery limited their speed to a inferior number compared to the RNs' dreadnoughts. The layout of the main guns wasted tonnage without any real gain in fire power. DFO

Specs (Wiki):
Displacement: Designed: 18,873 t (18,575 long tons)
Full load: 21,000 t (21,000 long tons)

Length: 146.1 m (479 ft 4 in)
Beam: 26.9 m (88 ft 3 in)
Draught: 8.76 m (28 ft 9 in)
Propulsion: 3-shaft vertical triple expansion
21,699 ihp (16,181 kW)

Speed: Designed: 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph)


Range: At 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph): 8,300 nmi (15,400 km; 9,600 mi)
Boats & landing
craft carried: 10
Complement: Standard: 40 officers, 968 men
Squadron flagship: 53 officers, 1,034 men
2nd command flagship: 42 officers, 991 men

Armament: 12 × 28 cm (11 in) L/45 guns
12 × 15 cm (5.9 in) SK L/45 guns
16 × 8.8 cm (3.5 in) SK L/45 guns
6 × 45 cm (18 in) torpedo tubes

Armor: Belt: 300 mm
Turrets: 280 mm
Battery: 160 mm
Conning Tower: 400 mm
Torpedo bulkhead: 30 mm
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SMS Rheinland pictured shortly after entering service in 1910.
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More of the RHEINLAND........... :) DFO
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Views of sisters WESTFALEN and NASSAU, all clunking along with old fashioned triple expansion engines. At that point the Germans did not want to $pend for turbine$!!
.............. :) DFO
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Another of NASSAU, note foremast............ :) DFO
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Re: Dreadnought Battleships: Nassau Class

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They certainly were clunking along with old fashioned T E engines.

But then, so were your US South Carolina's from the same year.

Oh. There's more.
Even later and still clunking along were the 2 New York class. And that was in 1912.
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The OKLAHOMA, too............. :o DFO
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Nassau Class Dreadnought Battleship SMS Westfalen pictured in 1910.
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Two views of NASSAU.............. :) DFO
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