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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Sachsen		210	Vulcan, Hamburg	7.4.1914	21.11.1916	---	sold incomplete 11.1919
Württemberg		19	Germaniawerft, Kiel	4.1.1915	20.6.1917	---	sold incomplete 11.1919

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	28800
Displacement full, t	32500
Length, m	182.4 oa 181.8 wl
Breadth, m	30.0
Draught, m	8.43 mean 9.40 deep load
No of shafts	3
Machinery	Sachsen: CODAS: 2 Parsons steam turbines, 9 Marine boilers, 1 MAN diesel Württemberg: 3 AEG-Vulcan steam turbines, 12 Marine boilers
Power, h. p.	Sachsen: 42000 + 12000 = 54000 Württemberg: 48000
Max speed, kts	Sachsen: 22.2 Württemberg: 22
Fuel, t	Sachsen: coal 2700 + oil 1300 Württemberg: coal 3100 + oil 900
Endurance, nm(kts)	5000(12)
Armour, mm	belt: 350 - 120, bulkheads: 300 - 140, deck: 100 - 60, turrets: 350 - 100, barbettes: 330 - 25, casemates: 170, CT: 400 - 170
Armament	4 x 2 - 380/42 SK L/45 C/13, 16 x 1 - 149/42 SK L/45 C/09, 8 x 1 - 88/45 FlaK L/45 C/13, 5 - 600 TT (1 bow, 4 beam)
Complement	Sachsen: 1165 Württemberg: 1196

Standard scale images

Project history

These ships were slightly lengthened Bayerns, Sachsen being built under the 1914-15 programme and Württemberg under War Estimates, and would have been similar in appearance except for higher funnels in Sachsen.     The designed armament was unchanged except that the 38cm mountings were Drh LC/14 with 20° elevation, and TT would certainly have been reduced to 3. Armour was also as in Bayern with a few exceptions.     In Sachsen the centre shaft was to be diesel-powered and the two outer steam with 3 oil- and 6 coal-fired boilers and 2 sets of turbines in 4 engine rooms, while in Württemberg there were 3 oil- and 9 coal-fired boilers with3 sets of turbines in 6 engine rooms. Range was to be 2000nm at 12kts on diesel alone.

Ship protection

The main 350mm belt ran from 1.8m above lwl to 0.4m below between end barbettes, tapering to 170mm at the lower edge 1.7m below lwl. Between main and upper decks it was 250mm. Forward the armour was 200-150mm ending 15m from the bows and aft 200-120mm. The barbettes were 350-250mm reduced to 170mm behind the battery armour, 200-75mm behind the 150mm side and 115-25mm behind the 350mm. The turrets had 350mm faces, 250mm sides, 290mm rears and 200-100mm roofs.  The armour deck was 30mm amidships, 60mm forward and 1120-60mm aft while between end barbettes the upper deck was 30mm outside the battery and 25mm as the battery floor and the forecastle deck 30mm over the latter (40mm near the centreline amidships). The torpedo bulkhead was 50mm, and was continued as a 30mm splinter bulkhead to the upper deck. Fwd CT had 400mm sides and 170mm roof, aft CT had 170mm sides and 80mm roof. Sachsen had a structure protecting the top of the diesel engine for about halfway between armour and main decks. This was 200-140mm with 80mm roof, and both ships are shown with all barbettes 40mm behind the 350mm belt, and with the armour deck 50mmm over some areas amidships.