NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Irene		175	Vulcan, Stettin	1886	23.7.1887	25.5.1888	depot ship 2.1914
Prinzess Wilhelm		30	Germaniawerft, Kiel	1886	22.9.1887	13.11.1889	hulk 2.1914

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	4271
Displacement full, t	5027
Length, m	103.7 oa 98.9 wl
Breadth, m	14.2
Draught, m	6.74 mean 7.63 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 HC, 4 cylindrical doubled boilers
Power, h. p.	8000
Max speed, kts	18
Fuel, t	coal 550
Endurance, nm(kts)	2490(9)
Armour, mm	compound; deck: 50 with 75mm slopes, glacis: 120, CT: 50
Armament	4 x 1 - 149/28 RK L/30 C/83, 10 x 1 - 149/20 RK L/22 C/72, 6 x 5 - 37/27 RV L/30, 3 - 350 TT (1 bow, 2 beam)
Complement	365

Standard scale images

Project history

The Irene and her sister were the first German protected cruisers.

Ship protection

They had a compound steel armoured deck (flat amidships consisted of 20mm iron on 30mm steel, slopes had 20mm iron and 55mm steel layers). Engine was protected by 120mm glacis oh 200mm wood backing. CT had 50mm sides and 20mm roof.

Modernizations

1893, both: - 10 x 1 - 149/20, 6 x 5 - 37/17; + 8 x 1 - 105/32 SK L/35 C/91, 6 x 1 - 50/37 SK L/40 C/92

Naval service

They were broken up in 1921 and 1922 respectively.