NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Prinz Heinrich		26	Kiel KW	1898	22.3.1900	11.3.1902	depot ship 1916

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	8887
Displacement full, t	9806
Length, m	126.5 oa 124.9 wl
Breadth, m	19.6
Draught, m	7.65 mean 8.07 deep load
No of shafts	3
Machinery	3 VTE, 14 Dürr boilers
Power, h. p.	15000
Max speed, kts	20
Fuel, t	coal 1590 + oil 175
Endurance, nm(kts)	4580(10)
Armour, mm	belt: 100 - 80, deck: 40 - 35 with 50mm slopes, main turrets: 150, secondary turrets: 100, casemates: 100, CT: 150
Armament	2 x 1 - 238/37 SK L/40 C/98, 10 x 1 - 149/37 SK L/40 C/97, 10 x 1 - 88/27 SK L/30 C/89, 4 x 1 - 7.9/79, 4 - 450 TT (1 bow, 2 beam, 1 stern)
Complement	567

Standard scale images

Project history

The Prinz Heinrich, specially intended for overseas service, was a more lightly armed but faster version of the Fürst Bismarck. She had thinner armour but it was spread wider to cover the central citadel in which all ten of the 150mm guns were concentrated amidships on two decks. This concentration of the secondary armament was to be a feature of all the German armoured cruisers from here on.

Ship protection

Narrow belt protected all waterline length, was 100mm between main barbettes and 80mm at ship ends and was backed by 100-80mm wood. 40-35mm protective deck was connected with its lower edge by 50mm slopes. Fwd CT had 150m sides and 30mm roof, aft CT had only 12mm plating. Main turrets had 150mm sides and 30mm crowns, 4 15cm guns were placed in the turrets with 100mm sides, others were protected by 100mm casemates with 70mm shields, closed by 100mm bulkheads.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

She was rebuilding in 1914, but there was little place for her in the struggle in the North Sea, so she was disarmed to become a depot ship in 1916.