SMS Friedrich Carl was a German armored cruiser built in the early 1900s for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy). She was the second and final member of the Prinz Adalbert class, which were built to serve as scouts for the German fleet and as station ships in Germany's colonial empire. Friedrich Carl was built by the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg. She was laid down in August 1901, was launched in June 1902, and was commissioned in December 1903. She was armed with a main battery of four 21 cm (8.3 in) guns and was capable of a top speed of 20.4 kn (37.8 km/h; 23.5 mph).
Friedrich Carl served with the scouting forces of the Active Battle Fleet for the first several years of her career, including a stint as the flagship of the reconnaissance squadron. During this period, she went on cruises abroad, including voyages where she escorted Kaiser Wilhelm II on tours in the Mediterranean Sea. She also participated in extensive training exercises in the Baltic and North Seas. In 1909, she was withdrawn from front-line service and used as a torpedo training ship, a role she held until 1914.
After the outbreak of World War I in July 1914, the ship returned to active service for operations in the Baltic Sea against the Imperial Russian Navy. She served as the flagship of the cruiser squadron in the Baltic and participated in patrols in the Gulf of Finland. She was modified to carry a pair of seaplanes. In mid-November, the cruiser squadron was tasked with attacking the Russian base at Libau, but while en route on 17 November, Friedrich Carl struck a pair of naval mines. She remained afloat long enough for most of her crew to be taken off by the light cruiser SMS Augsburg before sinking; seven or eight men were killed in the sinking.
Name Friedrich Carl
Namesake Prince Friedrich Carl
Builder Blohm & Voss, Hamburg
Laid down August 1900
Launched 21 June 1902
Commissioned 12 December 1903
Fate Mined and sunk, 17 November 1914
General characteristics
Class and type Prinz Adalbert-class cruiser
Displacement
Normal: 9,087 metric tons (8,943 long tons)
Full load: 9,875 t (9,719 long tons)
Length 126.5 m (415 ft) o/a
Beam 19.6 m (64 ft 4 in)
Draft 7.43 m (24 ft 5 in)
Installed power
14 × Dürr water-tube boilers
17,000 PS (17,000 ihp)
Propulsion
3 × screw propellers
3 × triple-expansion steam engines
Speed 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Range 5,080 nautical miles (9,410 km; 5,850 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement
35 officers
551 men
Armament
4 × 21 cm (8.3 in)
10 × 15 cm (5.9 in)
12 × 8.8 cm (3.5 in) SK L/35
4 × 45 cm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes
Armor
Belt: 100 mm (3.9 in)
Turrets: 150 mm (5.9 in)
Deck: 40 to 80 mm (1.6 to 3.1 in)
Conning tower: 150 mm
The story of admiral Aleksandr Kolchak who remained faithful to his oath to the Russian Emperor and fought against the Bolshevik rule after the 1917 October Revolution.
Admiral (Russian: Адмиралъ; stylized to resemble pre-revolutionary Russian, modern spelling: Russian: Адмирал) is a 2008 biopic about Alexander Kolchak, a vice admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy and leader of the anti-communist White movement during the Russian Civil War. The film also depicts the love triangle between the Admiral, his wife, and a poetess Anna Timiryova.
An extended version of the movie was made into a 10-part TV mini-series which was shown by Channel One in 2009.[2]
Commander Kolchek wins a shocking victory in the Baltic Sea. When he returns he is celebrated and fatefully meets Anna, the wife of his fellow Officer.
Konstantin Khabensky – Admiral Alexander Kolchak
Sergey Bezrukov – General Vladimir Kappel
Vladislav Vetrov – Captain Sergey Timirov
Elizaveta Boyarskaya – Anna Timiryova
Anna Kovalchuk – Sofia Kolchak
Egor Beroev – Mikhail Smirnov
Richard Bohringer – General Maurice Janin
Viktor Verzhbitsky – Alexander Kerensky
Nikolai Burlyayev – Nicholas II of Russia
Fyodor Bondarchuk – Director Sergei Bondarchuk
Olga Ostroumova
Nikolay Reutov
Igor Savochkin
Mikhail Eliseev
Coletti's Combat Aircraft
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