Construction
Hannover was intended to fight in the German battle line with the other battleships of the High Seas Fleet. The ship was laid down on 7 November 1904 at the Kaiserliche Werft shipyard in Wilhelmshaven. She was launched on 29 May 1905 and commissioned for trials on 1 October 1907, but the fleet exercises in the Skagerrak in November interrupted the trials. Trials resumed after the maneuvers were completed, and by 13 February 1908 Hannover was ready to join the active fleet. She was assigned to the II Battle Squadron of the High Seas Fleet, joining her sisters Deutschland and Pommern. However, the new British battleship HMS Dreadnought—armed with ten 12-inch (30.5 cm) guns—was commissioned in December 1906, well before Hannover entered service. Dreadnought's revolutionary design rendered obsolete every ship of the German navy, including the brand-new Hannover.
Hannover was 127.6 m (418 ft 8 in) long, had a beam of 22.2 m (72 ft 10 in), and a draft of 8.21 m (26 ft 11 in). She had a full-load displacement of 14,218 metric tons (13,993 long tons). The ship was equipped with triple expansion engines that produced a rated 16,000 indicated horsepower (11,931 kW) and a top speed of 18 kn (33 km/h; 21 mph). At a cruising speed of 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph), she could steam for 4,850 nautical miles (8,980 km; 5,580 mi).
The ship's primary armament consisted of four 28 cm (11 in) SK L/40 guns in two twin turrets. She was also equipped with fourteen 17 cm (6.7 in) guns mounted in casemates and twenty 8.8 cm (3.46 in) guns in pivot mounts. The ship was also armed with six 45 cm (17.72 in) torpedo tubes, all of which were submerged in the hull.
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