Historic Navy - pack3 - SMS Prinz Heinrich  1.0.0

SMS Prinz Heinrich

Commissioned 1902 – 8,887 tons – 127m (415 ft) length – speed 20 knots – range 4,580 nautical miles – crew 35 officers, 532 enlisted men – 2x24 cm (9.4 in) guns – 10x 15 cm (5.9 in) guns – 10x 8.8 cm (3.5 in) guns – 4x45 cm (17.7 in) submerged torpedo tubes – armour belt 10 cm (3.9 in) – turret armour 15 cm (5.9 in) – protective armoured deck 5cm (2 in).

Prinz Heinrich was an armoured cruiser – the second one commissioned into the Kaiserliche Marine.  She was also the forerunner of the battlecruiser – and would eventually evolve into a heavy cruiser between the World Wars. She was named in honour of His Royal Highness, Prince Heinrich of Prussia (brother to Kaiser Wilhelm II) – sometimes referred to as the “father” of the Imperial Navy. She was built at the Imperial Dockyard in Kiel to a design modified from her predecessor, SMS Fürst Bismarck. In an effort to reduce building costs and improve upon Bismarck’s performance characteristics, SMS Prinz Heinrich traded a smaller main battery and somewhat thinner armour for higher speed. In their turn, all future Imperial armoured cruisers would be incremental improvements of her design. Prinz Heinrich preformed active duty with the fleet from 1902 to 1906, when she was withdrawn for service as a training ship. She saw some combat in secondary roles between 1914 and 1916 when she was withdrawn from service for the final time (due to a severe shortage of crewmen in the fleet). She was eventually scrapped in 1920. (More information on this ship can be found in the “CJ” – IMPERIAL DOCKYARDS: CUXHAVEN -- Chapter 4.)

How to use

This pack contains .SC4model-files and props as .SC4desc-files. So, by installing this pack nothing will directly appear in your game. You can use the props on your own lots or convert the SC4models into buildings, as you please. Since most props are to be used on water lots and props naturally align with the surface level, they will sink to the sea floor, if you do not stick to the guidelines on how to use props on water lots. Finally you will need to follow the instructions on how to make a lot transparent.

You will find the props in any Lot-Editor under the prefix A_1P_h_

As per request from the community, I have also included a version of the ship without historic flags and crew.

Please visit @Dreadnought's CJ to get detailed descriptions and the historical backgrounds to these prop packs. You will see a wonderful display of the results of our long collaboration there and can get a preview of what might be hidden in the coming prop packs or simply get some inspiration for your own harbour!