&sq=&lang=&file=File:Bundesarchiv_DVM_10_Bild-23-61-10,_Schulschiff_%22SMS_Hansa_II%22.jpg) SMS Hansa
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| History | |
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| Name | SMS Hansa |
| Namesake | Hanseatic League |
| Builder | Stettiner Maschinenbau AG Vulcan |
| Laid down | 1896 |
| Launched | 12 March 1898 |
| Commissioned | 20 April 1899 |
| Stricken | 6 December 1919 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1920 |
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| Class and type | Victoria Louise-class protected cruiser |
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| Length | 110.5 m (363 ft) |
| Beam | 17.6 m (58 ft) |
| Draft | 7.08 m (23.2 ft) |
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| Speed | 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
| Range | 3,412 nmi (6,319 km; 3,926 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
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SMS Hansa was a protected cruiser of the Victoria Louise class, built for the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) in the 1890s, along with her sister ships Victoria Louise, Hertha, Vineta, and Freya. Hansa was laid down at the AG Vulcan shipyard in Stettin in 1896, launched in March 1898, and commissioned into the Navy in April 1899. The ship was armed with a battery of two 21 cm guns and eight 15 cm guns and had a top speed of 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph).
Hansa served abroad in the East Asia Squadron for the first six years of her career. She contributed a landing party to the force that captured the Taku Forts during the Boxer Uprising in 1900. In August 1904, she participated in the internment of the Russian battleship Tsesarevich after the Battle of the Yellow Sea during the Russo-Japanese War. After returning to Germany in 1906, she was modernized and used as a training ship in 1909, following the completion of the refit. At the outbreak of World War I, Hansa was mobilized into V Scouting Group, but served in front-line duty only briefly. She was used as a barracks ship after 1915, and ultimately sold for scrapping in 1920.