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Uss Ostfriesland | style="text-align: center" colspan="2"| | | tyle="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| Career | style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| KLM ensign USN Jack | | rdered: | | | aid down: | October 1908 | | aunched: | September 1909 | | ommissioned SMS: | May 1911 | | ommissioned USS: | 7 April 1920 | | ecommissioned: | 20 September 1920 | | ate: | sunk as bombing target 21 July 1921 | | tricken: | | | olspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; background: navy;"|General characteristics | | isplacement: | 24,500 tons | | ength: | 546 ft (166 m) | | eam: | 93.3 ft (28.4 m) | | raft: | 29.5 ft (9.0 m) | | ropulsion: | 3 shaft Vertical Triple Expansion, 28,000 ihp (21 MW) | | peed: | 21 knots (39 km/h) | | ange: | | | omplement: | 1150 officers and men | | rmament: | 12 x 12 in (305 mm) guns, 14 x 150 mm (5.9 in) guns, 6 x 500 mm (19.7 in) torpedo tubes | | otto: | Ostfriesland was a Dreadnought-type battleship of the Helgoland-class named for the German province bordering on the Netherlands and the North Sea. Her keel was laid down in 1908 at Wilhelmshaven. She was launched in September 1909, and commissioned as Ostfriesland in the Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial German Navy) in May 1911. She fought at the Battle of Jutland. Ostfriesland was surrendered to the Allies following World War I and commissioned into the United States Navy on April 7, 1920, at Rosyth, Scotland, with Captain J.F. Hellweg in command. Though in need of repairs, the ship managed to sail to New York where she was decommissioned September 20 1920. At the urging of Billy Mitchell who wanted to demonstrate the power of aircraft over ships, Ostfriesland and several other ex-US (including the USS Alabama) and ex-German warships, became targets for the demonstration. Bombed by Army planes from Langley Field in Virginia, she was sunk on July 21 1921, about 60 miles off the Virginia Capes. Ostfriesland Ostfriesland
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