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Hansa 1900s  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Victoria Louise		116	Weser, Bremen	1895	29.3.1897	20.2.1899	TS 1908, minelayer / barrack ship 1915, discarded 10.1919
Hertha		233	Vulcan, Stettin	1895	14.4.1897	23.7.1898	TS 1908, barrack ship 1915
Freya			Danzig KW	1895	27.4.1897	20.10.1898	TS 1907, discarded 1.1920
Vineta			Danzig KW	1896	9.12.1897	13.9.1899	test ship 1908, TS 1911, barrack ship 1915
Hansa		235	Vulcan, Stettin	1896	12.3.1898	20.4.1899	TS 1909, barrack ship 1915

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	Victoria Louise, Hertha, Freya: 5660 Vineta, Hansa: 5885
Displacement full, t	Victoria Louise, Hertha, Freya: 6491 Vineta, Hansa: 6705
Length, m	Victoria Louise, Hertha, Freya: 110.6 oa 109.1 wl Vineta, Hansa: 110.5 oa 109.8 wl
Breadth, m	Victoria Louise, Hertha, Freya: 17.4 Vineta, Hansa: 17.6
Draught, m	Victoria Louise: 6.58 mean 6.93 deep load Hertha: 6.58 mean 6.78 deep load Freya: 6.74 mean 6.77 deep load Vineta, Hansa: 7.08 mean 7.34 deep load
No of shafts	3
Machinery	Victoria Louise, Vineta: 3 VTE, 12 Dürr boilers Hertha: 3 VTE, 12 Belleville boilers Freya: 3 VTE, 12 Niclausse boilers Hansa: 3 VTE, 18 Belleville boilers
Power, h. p.	10000
Max speed, kts	Victoria Louise, Hertha, Freya: 19.5 Vineta, Hansa: 18.5
Fuel, t	coal 950
Endurance, nm(kts)	3412(12)
Armour, mm	deck: 40 with 100mm slopes, turrets: 100 - 30, casemates: 100, CT: 150
Armament	2 x 1 - 209/37 SK L/40 C/97, 8 x 1 - 149/37 SK L/40 C/97, 10 x 1 - 88/27 SK L/30 C/89, 10 x 1 - 7.9/79, 3 - 450 TT (1 bow, 2 beam)
Complement	477

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Project history

These protected cruisers show distinct affinities with contemporary German battleship designs, with fewer guns, more speed, and only a 100mm protective deck amidships, and die same protection for the turrets. They also introduced the rather massive appearance and the combined clipper and ram bow which were to mark the classes of German heavy cruiser up to the 1907 Scharnhorst. These ships, and their immediate successors, were rather top-heavy.

Ship protection

Protective deck was 40mm thick amidships and had 100mm slopes. CT had 150mm sides and 30mm roof. 21cm and 15cm turrets had 100m sides and 30mm crowns, casemates were protected by 100mm sides and 70mm bulkheads.

Modernizations

1906, Victoria Louise; 1907, Freya; 1908, Hertha; 1909, Hansa; 1911, Vineta: boilers were replaced by 8 Marine, three funnels were replaced by two, the original tower foremast and fighting top were replaced by an ordinary pole mast; - 2 x 1 - 149/37, 10 x 1 - 7.9/79; + 1 x 1 - 88/27 SK L/30 C/89, 3 x 1 - 88/32 SK L/35 C/01

1916, Freya: was armed with 1 x 1 - 149/37 SK L/40 C/97, 4 x 1 - 105/42 SK L/45 C/11, 14 x 1 - 88/27 (SK L/30 C/89 and 88/32 SK L/35 C/01)

Naval service

In 1916 all the ships were disarmed and used for accommodation, except for Freya, employed as a schoolship, which retained armament. Victoria Louise underwent the unusual transformation in 1920 of conversion to the cargo ship Flora Sommerfeld for a Danzig Firm. She did not last long in her new guise, being broken up in 1923.