Ship Main guns Displacement Propulsion Service Laid down Commissioned Fate SMS Braunschweig 4 × 28 cm (11 in)[41] 14,394 t (14,167 long tons)[42] 3 screws, triple expansion engines, 18.7 kn (34.6 km/h; 21.5 mph)[42] 1901[42] 15 October 1904[41] Scrapped in 1931[41] SMS Elsass 4 × 28 cm (11 in)[41] 14,394 t (14,167 long tons)[42] 3 screws, triple expansion engines, 18.7 kn (34.6 km/h; 21.5 mph)[42] 1901[42] 29 November 1904[41] Scrapped in 1936[41] SMS Hessen 4 × 28 cm (11 in)[41] 14,394 t (14,167 long tons)[42] 3 screws, triple expansion engines, 18.2 kn (33.7 km/h; 20.9 mph)[42] 1902[42] 19 September 1905[41] Ceded to USSR in 1946[41] SMS Preussen 4 × 28 cm (11 in)[41] 14,394 t (14,167 long tons)[42] 3 screws, triple expansion engines, 18.5 kn (34.3 km/h; 21.3 mph)[42] 1902[42] 12 July 1905[41] Partially scrapped in 1931, sunk by bombers in 1945, raised in 1954 and scrapped[41] SMS Lothringen 4 × 28 cm (11 in)[41] 14,394 t (14,167 long tons)[42] 3 screws, triple expansion engines, 18.7 kn (34.6 km/h; 21.5 mph)[42] 1902[42] 18 May 1906[41] Scrapped in 1931[41]