SMS Sachsen

SMS Sachsen was the third of four dreadnought-type Bayern-class battleships built, but never finished, for the German Kaiserliche Marine in the 1910s. This ship is sometimes considered to be part of a sub-class with her sister Württemberg. Like the other members of the class, she was to be armed with the same main battery of eight 38 cm (15 in) guns in four gun turrets, but she differed from the other members of her class in her propulsion system. She exchanged the steam turbine on her center propeller shaft in favor of a diesel engine. She was laid down in April 1914 at the Germaniawerft shipyard, but the start of World War I in July slowed work on the ship; she was launched in November 1916, but as resources were diverted to more pressing projects, including U-boat construction, work stopped completely when the ship was about nine months from completion. Some components of her propulsion system were reused in several of the Type U 151 submarines. The Treaty of Versailles that ended the war in June 1919 specified that all warships under construction in Germany were to be destroyed, and Sachsen was accordingly sold for scrap in 1920 and dismantled the following year.

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length 182.4 metre, length 180 metre, speed 22 knot, beam 30 metre, draft 9.39 metre, speed 22.25 knot, draft 9.4 metre, 
super-dreadnought, Bayern-class battleship, Imperial German Navy, Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft, 

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Location: KML, Cluster Map, Maps,

1914-04-15T00:00:00Z

1914-04-15T00:00:00Z

keel laying

1916-11-21T00:00:00Z

1916-11-21T00:00:00Z

ship launching

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Frameless

View of Hamburg port in 1920. Incomplete hulks of ships, from left to right: Mackensen Class Battlecruiser, Bayern Class Battleship, Salamis Battleship.

Hamburg port NARA-68155073 (cropped)

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
link	page		Dreadnought Project page@		Wikidata
commons	image		View of Hamburg port in 1920. Incomplete hulks of ships, from left to right: Mackensen Class Battlecruiser, Bayern Class Battleship, Salamis Battleship.		Commons
commons	image		Hamburg port NARA-68155073 (cropped)		Commons