SMS Hessen was the third of five pre-dreadnought battleships of the Braunschweig class. She was laid down in 1902, was launched in September 1903, and...
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Several naval ships of Germany were named Hessen after the state of Hesse, Germany (German: Hessen): SMS Hessen (battleship): 13,000 ton Braunschweig-class...
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Kahlert 3rd Division: KAdm Mauve SMS Deutschland (flagship): KptzS Hugo Meurer SMS Hessen: KptzS Rudolf Bartels SMS Pommern (sunk 1st June): KptzS Siegfried...
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(1904–1936) SMS Hessen (1905–1960) SMS Preussen (1905–1931) SMS Lothringen (1906–1931) Bremen-class cruisers SMS Hamburg (1904–1927) SMS Berlin (1906–1929)...
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SMS G39 SMS G40 SMS G41 SMS G42 SMS V43 SMS V44 SMS V45 SMS V46 SMS V47 SMS V48 SMS S49 SMS S50 SMS S51 SMS S52 SMS S53 SMS S54 SMS S55 SMS S56 SMS S57...
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names Ersatz Elsass and Ersatz Hessen as replacements for the old pre-dreadnought battleships SMS Elsass and SMS Hessen. The contracts were awarded on...
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later Sea Cloud SMS Wörth (1890) SMS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse (1898) SMS Zähringen (1899) SMS Braunschweig (1901) SMS Hessen (1902) SMS Deutschland (1904)...
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on SMS Stein. He was promoted to Kapitänleutnant on 19 September 1914 and during the First World War commanded various torpedo boats (such as SMS G41...
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cadets of Crew 1913 were sent to the training ships SMS Hansa, SMS Hertha, SMS Victoria Louise and SMS Vineta. Lindemann was assigned to Hertha with 71 of...
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too were withdrawn from service and broken up, with the exception of Hessen. Hessen was converted into a radio-controlled target ship in 1935 and served...
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War II as armed ships; the last serving pre-dreadnought was the former SMS Hessen, which was used as a target ship by the Soviet Union into the early 1960s...
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upper turret and lower casemate on starboard side of German battleship SMS Hessen. A 17 cm SK L/40 gun in the Atlantic Wall. 17 cm SK L/40 i.R.L. auf Eisenbahnwagen...
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officer (Artillerieoffizier) on SMS Hessen. On 12 February 1913 he travelled to Sydney to take the command of the gunboat SMS Cormoran. He was involved in...
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28-centimetre (11 in) railway gun (originally mounted in the battleship SMS Hessen)[page needed] that was captured by the Australian Imperial Force during...
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See. From 29 December 1924 to 5 January 1925, Meyer was posted to the SMS Hessen as part of the Ships Cadre. During his time there Meyer served as an Adjutant...
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SMS D8 (Leader) SMS T25 SMS T29 SMS T31 SMS T33 SMS T34 SMS T35 SMS T36 SMS T37 SMS T40 SMS T41 SMS T71 SMS T72 SMS T73 Minelayers SMS Nautilus SMS Albatross...
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reported back on security arrangements. The commander of the battleship SMS Hessen stated that the machine was "housed in a specially prepared, lockable...
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Jordan von Sachsen Sachsen-class ironclad (1875) SMS Sachsen (1877), the lead ship of that class SMS Sachsen (1916), a Bayern-class battleship Sachsen-class...
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battleship SMS Hessen, where on 28 September 1906 he was promoted to Fähnrich zur See (lieutenant). He then served on the training cruiser SMS Freya and...
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SMS Schleswig-Holstein (pronounced [ˌʃleːsvɪç ˈhɔlʃtaɪn] ) was the last of the five pre-dreadnought Deutschland-class battleships built by the German...
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SMS Hannover ("His Majesty's Ship Hannover") was the second of five Deutschland-class pre-dreadnought battleships of the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche...
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SMS Preussen was the fourth of five pre-dreadnought battleships of the Braunschweig class, built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy). She...
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SMS Lothringen was the last of five pre-dreadnought battleships of the Braunschweig class, built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy). She...
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SMS Zähringen (German: Seiner Majestät Schiff Zähringen; English: His Majesty's Ship Zähringen) was the third Wittelsbach-class pre-dreadnought battleship...
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SMS Elsass was the second of five pre-dreadnought battleships of the Braunschweig class in the German Imperial Navy. She was laid down in May 1901, launched...
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SMS Braunschweig was the first of five pre-dreadnought battleships of the Braunschweig class built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy)....
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expansion program. The class comprised five ships—Braunschweig, Elsass, Hessen, Preussen, and Lothringen—and they were an improvement over the preceding...
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SMS Nassau was the first dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial German Navy, a response to the launching of the British battleship HMS Dreadnought...
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SMS Danzig was a paddle corvette of the Prussian Navy. She was the lead warship during the Battle of Tres Forcas in 1856, one of the first examples of...
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SMS V185 was a S-138-class large torpedo boat of the Imperial German Navy. She was built by the AG Vulcan shipyard at Stettin in 1910, launching on 9...
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