&sq=&lang=&file=File:SMS_Prinz_Adalbert_illustration.png) Prinz Adalbert
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| Class overview | |
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| Operators | |
| Preceded by | Arminius |
| Succeeded by | Friedrich Carl |
| Completed | 1 |
| Scrapped | 1 |
| History | |
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| Name | Prinz Adalbert |
| Namesake | Adalbert of Prussia |
| Ordered | 16 July 1863 |
| Builder | Arman Brothers, Bordeaux |
| Launched | June 1864 |
| Acquired | 10 July 1865 |
| In service | 9 June 1866 |
| Out of service | 23 October 1871 |
| Stricken | 28 May 1878 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1878 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Ironclad ram |
| Displacement | Full load: 1,560 metric tons (1,540 long tons) |
| Length | 56.96 m (186 ft 11 in) |
| Beam | 9.92 m (32 ft 7 in) |
| Draft | 5.02 m (16 ft 6 in) (mean) |
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| Propulsion | |
| Sail plan | Brig-rigged |
| Speed | 9.5 knots (17.6 km/h; 10.9 mph) |
| Range | 1,200 nmi (2,200 km; 1,400 mi) at 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
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SMS Prinz Adalbert [a] was an ironclad warship of the Prussian Navy and later the Imperial fleet. She was built in Bordeaux, France in 1864 for the Confederate States Navy. Prussia bought her during the Second Schleswig War against Denmark, but she was not delivered until after the war. She was designed as an armored ram but also carried three guns: one 21 cm (8.3 in) and two 17 cm (6.7 in) pieces in armored turrets. She was named after Prince Adalbert of Prussia, an early proponent of Prussian naval power.
The ship was poorly built and as a result had a very limited service career. She was heavily modified after her delivery to Prussia in 1865 and briefly served with the fleet between 1866 and 1871. During the Franco-Prussian War in 1870–1871, the ship was assigned as a guard ship in Hamburg. After the war, it was discovered that the internal wood construction was badly rotted; she was therefore removed from service in October 1871. Prinz Adalbert was stricken from the naval register in May 1878 and broken up for scrap that year.
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