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SMS FÜRST BISMARCK
SMS Furst Bismarck – Commissioned 1900
Displacement 10,690 tons – 127m (416 ft) in length – speed 18.7 knots – range 4,560 nautical miles – crew 36 officer, 585 enlisted men – 4x 24cm (9.4 in) guns – 12x 15cm (5.9 in) guns – 10x 8.8cm (3.1 in) guns – 6x 45cm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes – deck armour 3cm (1.2 in) – turret armour 20cm (7.9 in) – belt armour 20cm (7.9 in) – protective armoured deck 5cm (2 in).
SMS Furst Bismarck was the first armoured cruiser designed and built for the Kaiserliche Marine. As an experimental ship, she represented a “one-ship-class” and had been built largely in response to the French armoured cruiser Dupuy de Lome (the first of her kind). The armoured cruiser was a new and innovative ship type and the French built her as a powerful commerce raider. Furst Bismarck was designed to protect German colonial interests against the French menace. The German design could have been faster – but she mounted a powerful main battery with a superbly designed and unusually strong armour suite. She was, in fact, designed to be a “cruiser killer”. Furst Bismarck spent most of her operational life assigned to the German East Asiatic Squadron. She was a handsome ship – solidly built and heavily armed – and showed her Sovereign’s flag in the far corners of the world with distinction. For complete details on her design, construction, and operational history -- see IMPERIAL DOCKYARDS CUXHAVEN: Chapter 03 -- "The Advent Of The Armored Cruiser
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!
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