sms sms protected cruiser victoria class built german_imperial_navy kaiserliche_marine 1890s sister ships laid launched april commissioned navy october ship armed battery guns guns speed knots mph served german fleet initial years career unlike sister ships served abroad foreign stations result led fairly uneventful career fleet modernization school ship cadets outbreak world war mobilized served line duty briefly barracks ship ultimately sold scrapping design ordered contract laid launched april fitting work commenced commissioned german navy october ship meters long overall beam draft forward displaced long tons short tons combat load propulsion system consisted vertical cylinder triple expansion engines powered coal fired belleville boilers engines provided speed mph range approximately nautical miles mph crew officers enlisted men ship armed guns single turrets forward aft guns supplied rounds ammunition range carried guns mounted turrets amidships placed casemates guns range carried guns gun armament rounded machine guns equipped torpedo tubes torpedoes launchers mounted broadside bow waterline service history commissioning served german fleet september joined german home fleet division consisted armored cruiser flagship light cruisers division participated summer fleet maneuvers august september went drydock wilhelmshaven modernization refit built originally modernization funnels refit finished training ship naval cadets served aboard ship cadet went command task force composed world war august represented germany celebrations halifax canada commemorating anniversary opening entering port midnight august inadvertently rammed schooner heavy fog sailors killed accident short career world war outbreak hostilities briefly mobilized tasked training cadets baltic_sea end ships removed service service coastal defense ship withdrawn line duty returned service training ship based served capacity end war command atlantis world war served aboard ship cadet old tender starting july stricken january briefly barracks ship police hamburg ultimately broken scrap
SMS Freya