 SMS Hildebrand was the fifth vessel of the six @-@ member Siegfried class of coastal defense ships ( Küstenpanzerschiffe ) built for the German Imperial Navy . Her sister ships were Siegfried , Beowulf , Frithjof , Heimdall , and Hagen . Hildebrand was built by the Kaiserliche Werft Kiel shipyard between 1890 and 1893 , and was armed with a main battery of three 24 @-@ centimeter ( 9 @.@ 4 in ) 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 . Hildebrand was demobilized in 1915 and used as a barracks ship thereafter . She ran aground while en route to the Netherlands for scrapping in 1919 , and was eventually broken up in situ in 1933 . 
