SMS Schwaben ("His Majesty's Ship Swabia")[a] was the fourth ship of the Wittelsbach class of pre-dreadnought battleships of the German Imperial Navy. Schwaben was built at the Imperial Dockyard in Wilhelmshaven. She was laid down in 1900, and completed in April 1904. Her sister ships were Wittelsbach, Zähringen, Wettin and Mecklenburg; they were the first capital ships built under the Navy Law of 1898, championed by Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz. Schwaben was armed with a main battery of four 24-centimeter (9.4 in) guns and had a top speed of 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph).
Schwaben spent most of her career as a gunnery training ship from 1904 to 1914, though she frequently participated in the large scale fleet exercises during this period. After the start of World War I in August 1914, the ship was mobilized with her sisters as IV Battle Squadron. She saw limited duty in the North Sea as a guard ship and in the Baltic Sea against Russian forces. The threat from British submarines forced the ship to withdraw from the Baltic in 1916. For the remainder of the war, Schwaben served as an engineering training ship for navy cadets. She was retained by the Reichsmarine after the war and reactivated from 1919 until June 1920, serving as a depot ship for F-type minesweepers in the Baltic. The ship was stricken from the navy list in March 1921 and sold for scrapping in that year.
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SMSSchwaben ("His Majesty's Ship Swabia") was the fourth ship of the Wittelsbach class of pre-dreadnought battleships of the German Imperial Navy. Schwaben...
The ships of the class, which included Wittelsbach, Wettin, Zähringen, Schwaben, and Mecklenburg, were the first battleships built under the first Naval...
Reichsmarineamt in Berlin. He next commanded SMS Brandenburg, SMS Braunschweig (1907–08) and SMSSchwaben (1908–10). In autumn 1910 he became Oberwerftdirektor...
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1919. After being released, Maertens was subordinated to the battleship SMSSchwaben for a month as a watch officer. In early 1920, he was posted to Baltiysk...
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completed October 1902. She and her sister ships—Wittelsbach, Zähringen, Schwaben and Mecklenburg—were the first capital ships built under the Navy Law of...
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participated in the Battleship Gunnery Course conducted aboard the battleship Schwaben. On 20 April, Hipper was given command of the light cruiser Leipzig, though...
(reviewed by Christof Paulus)". Zeitschrift des Historischen Vereins für Schwaben. Recensio: 399–400. Retrieved 29 June 2023. Messner, Florian (2014). Maximilian...
zu Parma, zu Piacenza, zu Guastala, zu Auschwitz und Zator, Fürstin zu Schwaben, gefürstete Gräfin zu Habsburg, zu Flandern, zu Tirol, zu Hennegau, zu...
shed on 16 May. The company's fortunes changed with the next ship, LZ 10 Schwaben, which first flew on 26 June 1911 and carried 1,553 passengers in 218 flights...
the path of the returning German fleet. She was sunk by the torpedo boat SMS G41 and her crew taken prisoner. King Stephen's name was notorious to the...
the Ancre Heights – British forces assaulted the German north side of Schwaben Redoubt, a strategically important defensive landmark on the Ancre River...
committed in World War I. During the attack, the Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Viribus Unitis was destroyed by Italian saboteurs, killing between 300 and...
Thiepval Ridge – British forces assaulted Thiepval, France, to capture the Schwaben Redoubt while German defenses were divided between it and the Battle of...
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