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| History | |
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| Name | SMS Sachsen |
| Namesake | Saxony |
| Builder | Germaniawerft, Kiel |
| Yard number | 210 |
| Laid down | 15 April 1914 |
| Launched | 21 November 1916 |
| Stricken | 3 November 1919 |
| Fate | Broken up, 1921–1923 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Bayern-class battleship |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 182.4 m (598 ft 5 in) loa |
| Beam | 30 m (98 ft 5 in) |
| Draft | 9.3 to 9.4 m (30 ft 6 in to 30 ft 10 in) |
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| Speed | 22.5 knots (41.7 km/h; 25.9 mph) |
| Range | 5,000 nmi (9,300 km; 5,800 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
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SMS Sachsen was the third of four dreadnought-type Bayern-class battleships built, but never finished, for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) 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.