SMS Hannover was the second of five Deutschland-class pre-dreadnoughts of the German Imperial Navy. She was laid down in November 1904, launched in May 1905, and commissioned into the High Seas Fleet in October 1907. Hannover and her sisters were immediately pressed into guard duties at the mouth of the Elbe River while the rest of the fleet mobilized. She took part in several fleet advances, which culminated in the Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1 June 1916. After the battle, she and her three surviving sisters were removed from active duty with the fleet to serve as guard ships. The ship was brought back to active service in the Reichsmarine, the post-war German
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SMS Hannover was the second of five Deutschland-class pre-dreadnoughts of the German Imperial Navy. She was laid down in November 1904, launched in May 1905, and commissioned into the High Seas Fleet in October 1907. Hannover and her sisters were immediately pressed into guard duties at the mouth of the Elbe River while the rest of the fleet mobilized. She took part in several fleet advances, which culminated in the Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1 June 1916. After the battle, she and her three surviving sisters were removed from active duty with the fleet to serve as guard ships. The ship was brought back to active service in the Reichsmarine, the post-war German navy, from 1921 to 1931, during which time she took parts in several major overseas cruises to Spain and the Mediterranean Sea. In September 1931, the navy planned to convert the ship into a radio-controlled target ship, but this was never carried out and she was instead used in explosive tests. The ships of her class were already outdated by the time they entered service, being inferior in size, armor, firepower, and speed to the revolutionary new British battleship HMS Dreadnought. The Hannover ship was ultimately broken up for scrap between 1944 and 1946 in Bremerhaven. Her bell is preserved at the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr in Dresden.
Her primary armament consisted of four 28 cm SK L40 guns mounted in casemates and eight 8 cm L45 naval guns in pivot mounts. She also was also armed with six 45cm torpedo tubes, all submerged in submerged in the hull. Her main battery had 280mm Krupp cemented armor protected the ship, where it protected her magazines and machinery spaces, and it protected the central portion of the hull from enemy fire. At a cruising speed of 10 knots, she could steam for 4,520 nautical miles. Her secondary battery was fourteen 17 cm 40 guns, mounted in two twin turrets, and fourteen 8-cm L40 naval guns on pivot mounts in the stern. She had a fuel capacity of up to 1,540 metric tons of coal, and a top speed of 18 knots. Her crew numbered 35 officers and 708 enlisted men. She was equipped with triple expansion engines that were rated at 17,524 indicated horsepower and aTop speed of18 knots. Steam was provided by twelve Schulz-Thornycroft boilers; three funnels vented smoke from burning coal in the boilers. The ship had a beam of 22. 2 m, and a draft of 8. 21 m. She displaced 14,218 metric tons at full loading. Her crew numbering 35 officers and 708 enlisted men, her crew numbered 35 officer and 35 enlisted men, her crew numbered 708 men, and the ship was equipped with two heavy military masts.
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