Four 280 mm (2×2) Twelve 150 mm Four 88 mm Four 37 mm (2×2) Three 20 mm cannon Four machine guns
Aircraft:
No
Propulsion:
19,330hp = 19.1 kts
Crew:
743
Schlesien was a German battleship that fought in World War I and World War II. Schlesien was one of five pre-dreadnought, Deutschland class battleships, not to be confused with a class of pocket battleships of the same name. Download high resolution version (740x615, 143 KB)Picture from http://www. ... Jack of the German Kaiserliche Marine and Kriegsmarine. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km (over 11 miles) into the air, August 9, 1945. ... The HMS Illustrious, an example of a pre-dreadnought battleship launched 1896 The term pre-dreadnought refers to a battleship designed and built between about 1890 and the 1906 construction of HMS Dreadnought for the British Royal Navy under the influence of First Sea Lord Fisher in 1906. ...
Schlesien, a 13,191-ton Deutschland class battleship built at Danzig, Germany, was commissioned in May 1908.
Schlesien was one of the old armored warships that Germany was allowed to keep in service during the post-World War I era and was modernized in the early 1930s.
Photographed from the battleship Scharnhorst during gunnery exercises in the western Baltic in late January 1940.
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