SMS Hagen SMS " Hagen " was the final vessel of the six - member " Siegfried " class of coastal defense ship s ( " Küstenpanzerschiffe " ) built for the German Imperial Navy . Her sister ships were , , , , and . " Hagen " was built by the Kaiserliche Werft Kiel shipyard between 1891 and 1893 , and was armed with a main battery of three guns . She served in the German fleet throughout the 1890s and was rebuilt in 1900 – 1902 . She served in the VI Battle Squadron after the outbreak of World War I in August 1914 , but saw no action . " Hagen " was demobilized in 1915 and used as a barracks ship thereafter . She was ultimately sold for scrap in 1919 and subsequently dismantled . Design . " Hagen " was long overall and had a beam of and a maximum draft of . She displaced at full combat load . Her propulsion system consisted of two vertical 3 - cylinder triple expansion engines . Steam for the engines was provided by four coal - fired boilers . The ship ' s propulsion system provided a top speed of and a range of approximately at . " Hagen " had a crew of 20 officers and 256 enlisted men . The ship was armed with three 24 cm K L / 35 guns mounted in three single gun turret s . Two were placed side by side forward , and the third was located aft of the main superstructure . They were supplied with a total of 204 rounds of ammunition . The ship was also equipped with eight 8 . 8 cm SK L / 30 guns in single mounts . " Hagen " also carried four torpedo tube s , all in swivel mounts on the deck . One was at the bow , another at the stern , and two amidships . The ship was protected by an armored belt that was amidships , and an armored deck that was thick . The conning tower had thick sides . " Hagen " s armor consisted of new Krupp steel , a more effective type of armor than the compound steel the other members of the class received . Service history . " Hagen " was laid down in 1891 at the Kaiserliche Werft shipyard in Kiel . She was launched on 23 October 1893 , and completed on 2 October 1894 . In July 1895 , " Hagen " , the protected cruiser , and the old corvette s and were sent to Morocco in a naval demonstration following the murder of two German nationals in the country . The German government had demanded 250 , 000 marks as an indemnity , and the naval squadron was sent to secure it . After returning to Germany , " Hagen " served on active duty with the fleet . In 1897 , " Hagen " participated in the annual summer maneuvers in the IV Division , along with and . Her other three sisters were assigned to the III Division . The following year , she was taken into drydock at the Kaiserliche Werft shipyard in Danzig for an extensive reconstruction . The ship was lengthened to , which increased displacement to . Her old boilers were replaced with eight new Thornycroft boiler s , and a second funnel was added . Her secondary battery was increased to ten 8 . 8 cm guns , and the 35 cm torpedo tubes were replaced with three tubes . Work was completed by 1900 . She then returned to service with the fleet , where in 1903 she was in the II Squadron , alongside , " Heimdall " , and . She remained on active service until the outbreak of World War I in August 1914 , when she was mobilized into the VI Battle Squadron for coastal defense , along with her sister ships . On 31 August 1915 , the VI Battle Squadron was demobilized , and " Hagen " s crew was transferred to other warships . She was then used as a barracks ship in Libau , Danzig , and Warnemünde . On 17 June 1919 , she was stricken from the naval register . She was sold for scrapping to Norddeutsche Tiefbaugesellschaft of Berlin and broken for scrap .