| Laid down | 1896 |
| Launched | 25th September 1897 |
| Completed | N/A |
| Commissioned | 1st April 1900 |
| Fate | Scrapped: 1919 - 1920 |
| Builders | Imperial Dockyard, Kiel Germany |
| Complement | 36 + 585 |
| Dimensions | |
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| Displacement | 10690 tons std 11461 tons max |
| Dimensions | 417' x 67' |
| Draught | 27' 9" |
| Armament | |
| Main guns | 4 x 9.4"/40 (2 x 2) 312 rounds |
| Secondary guns | 12 x 5.9"/40 (12 x 1) 1440 rounds |
| Torpedo tubes | 6 x 17.7" 16 rounds |
| Other weapons | 10 x 3.46" (10 x 1) 2500 rounds |
| Countermeasures | None |
| Armour | Deck: 1" - 2" Belt: 4" C.T.: 1" - 4" Turrets: 1.5" - 8" |
| Aircraft Facilities | |
| Aircraft | None |
| Flightdeck | None |
| Hangar | None |
| Catapults | None |
| Arrestor system | None |
| Aviation fuel | None |
| Electronics Fit | |
| Radar | None |
| Sonar | None |
| ECM | None |
| Other | N/A |
| Machinery | |
| Engines | 12 x Thornycroft boilers 3 x 4 cyl. vertical triple expansion |
| Power output | 13622ihp |
| Speed | 18.7kts |
| Shafts | 3 |
| Range | 4560NM @ 10kts 3230NM @ 12kts |
| Fuel | 1400 tons coal |
Furst Bismarck served on foreign stations until 1909. Between 1910 and 1915 she
was refitted at Kiel Dockyard, and from then was used as a coastal defence ship.
In 1916 she was disarmed and converted to a stokers training ship. In 1919 she was used
as an office ship. She was sold to Brand & Son, Audorf and scrapped there.
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