HESSEN

Fleet

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Ship Type

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Nickname

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Ship Class

Braunschweig class pre-dreadnought

Grouping

II Battle Squadron

Command

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Builder's Yard

Germanienschaft, Kiel

Budget Year

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Construction Notes

Cost 23,867,000 marks

Date Laid Down

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Launch Date

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Completed date

18.09.1903

Commission date

19.09.1905

Year laid down

1902 (April)

Year launched

1903

Year completed

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Commission Year

1905

Pennant No

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Photo Details

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Related stories

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Sister ships

Elsass, Preussen and Lothringen

Eventual Fate

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Jutland result

Was the second ship in the III Division of the 2nd Battle Squadron. Covered the retreat of Hipper's batle-cruisers. The min force turned westerly to avoid fire from Beatty but Mauve's ships continued south to block the battle-cruisers from Beatty's ships. When the 03:00 destroyer attack was launched, Hessen only just avoided at torpedo at 03:07. Hessen thought that it awas a submarine that had destroyed the Pommern and at 03:12 fired at what she thought was the submarine. At 05:06 and 05:13 she repeated firing at imaginary targets. Hessen fired five 28 cm rounds, thirty-four 17 cm and twenty-four 8.8 cm rounds.

Ready for action after dock repairs

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Commander

Kapitän zur See Rudolf Bartels

Noteable Officers

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Crew complement

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Officers

35

Ratings

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Killed

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Wounded

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Prisoners

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Displacement full Load (tons)

14,394 long

Artefacts Data

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Ship's Model

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Length (ft)

419

Length (mtrs)

127.7

Beam (ft)

73

Beam (mtrs)

22.2

Draught (ft)

27

Draught (mtrs)

8.1

Max. Speed (knots)

18

Range (miles)

9,600 km at 10 kts

Range (kilometres)

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Fuel

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Propulsion

3 shaft with three 3-cylinfder Triple Expansion steam engines with 8 naval and 6 cylindrical boilers. Rated at 17,000 ihp.

Armour Main Belt

3.9" - 10" (100 - 255 mm)

Deck Armour

1.6" (40 mm)

Turret Armour IN CM

9.8" (250 mm)

Conning Tower Armour

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Barbette Armour

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Weight of armour

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Armour / Displacement Ratio

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Watertight compartments

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General Notes

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Fire Control Table

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Fire Control - Clock

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Primary Gun calibre

28 cm (11”) SK/L40 guns

No. Primary Turrets

2

Guns (No.barrels)

4

Primary gun layout

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Rounds per main gun

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Effective broadside guns

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Primary shell Weight (inches or cm)

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Primary Broadside Weight

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Secondary Gun Calibre

17 cm (6.7 ”) SK / 40 guns

Guns (No.barrels) 2

14

Rounds per secondary

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Other Armament

Fourteen 8.8 cm (3.5”) SK L/ 45 naval guns

Elevation (degrees)

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Gunnery Range (yards)

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Gunnery Range (metres)

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Rate of Fire (rds per minute)

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Shells expended Main

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Mines dropped

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Shells expended Secondary

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Torpedoes fired

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Gunnery Notes

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Torpedo Type IN

18"

No. tubes

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Torpedo Type MM

450 mm

No. Mines

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Torpedo Notes

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References & sources

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