Siegfriend-class coastal defence ships
Kaiser-class battleships
An item referred to the magazine Army and Naval record reporting that the two newest German dreadnoughts were to be fitted out with turbines. The Heimdal (1) was to be fitted out with 3 screws and a Curtiss turbines and her sister ship with Parsons turbines, both with the same horsepower.
Note
1. Ordered as “U”, laid down at the Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven with yard number 14 in 1891, launched on 27 July 1892, commissioned on 7 August 1894. De mobilized, crew transferred elsewhere within the navy and barracks ship for submarine crew and coastal defence flotillas on the Ems river since 1915, stricken on 17 June 1919, navy intentions to convert her into a salvage ship cancelled and sold and broken up at Rönnebeck in 1921. Of the Siegfried-class coastal defence consisting of the Siegfried, Beowulf, Frithjof, Heimdall, Hildebrand and Hagen, named after Norse mythological figures. Preceded by the Oldenburg-class and succeeded by the Odin-class. Within short time due the rapid technical evolution was this class outdated and were the Siegfried, Beowulf and Frithjof to be replaced by the Helgoland-class battleships Helgoland, Thüringen and Oldenburg and the Heimdall, Hildebrand and Hagen by the Kaiser (laid down 1909) , Friederich der Grosse (laid down 1910) and Kaiserin (laid down in 1910) of the Kaiser-class battleships. The Kaiser-class was fitted out with turbine machinery.
