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SMS ''Elsass''. was the second of five pre-dreadnought battleships of the in the German Imperial Navy, laid down in 1901 and commissioned 1904. She was named for the German province of Elsass, now the French region of Alsace. Her sister ships were , , and . The ship served in the II Squadron of the German fleet after commissioning, though by the outbreak of World War I, she had been moved to the IV Squadron. ''Elsass'' saw action in the Baltic Sea against the Russian Navy. In August 1915, she participated in the Battle of the Gulf of Riga, during which she engaged the Russian battleship . In 1916, however, she was placed in reserve because of crew shortages, and spent the remainder of the war as a training ship. Under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, she was retained after the end of the war and was modernized in 1923–24. ''Elsass'' served in the Reichsmarine with the surface fleet until 1930, when she was again placed in reserve. She was stricken in 1931 and used for a short time as a hulk in Wilhelmshaven. The out-dated battleship was sold to Norddeutscher Lloyd in late 1935 and was broken up for scrap the following year. == Construction == (詳細はSchichau-Werke in Danzig under construction number 97. The second unit of her class, she was ordered under the contract name "J" as a new unit for the fleet. She cost 24,373,000 marks. ''Elsass'' was launched on 26 May 1903 and commissioned into the fleet on 29 November 1904. The ship was long overall and had a beam of and a draft of forward. The ship was powered by three 3-cylinder vertical triple expansion engines that drove three screws. Steam was provided by eight naval and six cylindrical boilers, all of which burned coal. ''Elsass''s powerplant was rated at , which generated a top speed of . ''Elsass''s armament consisted of a main battery of four 28 cm (11 in) SK L/40 guns in twin gun turrets,, one fore and one aft of the central superstructure. Her secondary armament was composed of fourteen 17 cm (6.7 inch) SK L/40 guns and eighteen 8.8 cm (3.45 in) SK L/35 quick-firing guns. Her armament was further increased by six torpedo tubes, all mounted submerged in the hull. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SMS Elsass」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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