HDMS Helgoland
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HDMS Helgoland was a coast defence barbette ironclad bult for the Royal Danish Navy in the late 1870s. The ship was decommissioned in 1907 and subsequently scrapped.
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Kingdom of Denmark | |
Name | Helgoland |
Namesake | Battle of Heligoland |
Builder | Orlogsværftet, Copenhagen |
Laid down | 20 May 1876 |
Launched | 9 May 1878 |
Commissioned | 20 August 1879 |
Decommissioned | 29 June 1907 |
Fate | Scrapped, 1907 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Barbette ironclad |
Displacement | 5,480 t (5,393 long tons) |
Length | 79.17 m (259 ft 9 in) |
Beam | 18.05 m (59 ft 3 in) |
Draft | 5.9 m (19 ft 4 in) |
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Propulsion | 2 shafts, 2 compound-expansion steam engines |
Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
Range | 1,400 nmi (2,600 km; 1,600 mi) at 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) |
Complement | 350 |
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