:::: Naval Vessels - GERMANY - CRUISERS
BISMARCK*
Code - N3338
£1.35
Class - 6
Date - 1878
Description - S.M.S. BISMARCK N3338
German flush decked corvette completed
1878. Sister ships Blücher, Stosch, Moltke,
Gneisenau & Stein.
Displacement 3,332 tons
Dimensions 271’ x 45’ x 20’
Armament 16 x 150mm
Speed 12.5 knots.
Apart from Gneisenau, wrecked in 1900, all
served as training ships, or auxiliary vessels
well into the 20th Century and only Stosch was
broken up before WW1.
