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SMS ''Pommern'' was one of five pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Kaiserliche Marine between 1904 and 1906. Named after the Prussian province of Pomerania, she was built at the AG Vulcan yard at Stettin, where she was laid down on 22 March 1904 and launched on 2 December 1905. She was commissioned into the navy on 6 August 1907. The ships of her class were already outdated by the time they entered the service, being inferior in size, armor, firepower, and speed to the revolutionary new battleship . After commissioning, ''Pommern'' was assigned to the II Battle Squadron of the High Seas Fleet, where she served throughout her peacetime career and the first two years of World War I. During this period, ''Pommern'' participated in several fruitless sorties into the North Sea in attempts to lure out and destroy a portion of the British Grand Fleet. The ship was present at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1 June 1916. She and her sisters briefly engaged the British battlecruisers commanded by David Beatty; ''Pommern'' was hit once by a shell from the battlecruiser . During the confused night actions in the early hours of 1 June, she was hit by one, or possibly two, torpedoes from the British destroyer , which detonated one of ''Pommern''s gun magazines. The resulting explosion broke the ship in half and killed the entire crew. ''Pommern'' was the only battleship of either side sunk during the battle. == Construction == (詳細はAG Vulcan dockyard in Stettin. She was originally scheduled to be launched on 19 November 1905, but the water level in the harbor was too low. As a result, the ship could not be launched until 2 December. The ''Oberpräsident'' of Pommern, Helmuth von Maltzahn, gave the launching speech. In July 1907 ''Pommern'' was transferred to Kiel where she had her main battery of four 28 cm (11 in) guns installed. She was commissioned for trials on 6 August; during her speed run, she made , which made her the fastest pre-dreadnought battleship in the world. The ship was long and had a beam of , and a draft of . Her full-load displacement was . She was equipped with triple expansion engines that were rated at and a top speed of . Steam was provided by twelve Schulz-Thornycroft boilers. In addition to being the fastest ship of her class, ''Pommern'' was the most fuel efficient. At a cruising speed of , she could steam for . The ship had a peacetime crew of 35 officers and 708 enlisted men, though during military operations, the size of the crew expanded. ''Pommern''s primary armament consisted of four guns in two twin turrets. She was equipped with fourteen guns mounted in casemates and twenty guns in pivot mounts. The ship was also armed with six torpedo tubes, all submerged in the hull. One was in the bow, one in the stern, and four on the broadside. Her armored belt was thick amidships and she had a thick armored deck. The main battery turrets had thick sides. 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 Pommern」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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