The Canon de 194 mm Modèle 1902 was used in sea-going battleships built between the mid- to late 1880s and 1905 before the advent of which ship?
Pre-dreadnought battleship Pre-dreadnought battleships were sea-going battleships built between the mid- to late 1880s and 1905, before the launch of HMS "Dreadnought" . Pre-dreadnoughts replaced the ironclad battleships of the 1870s and 1880s. Built from steel, and protected by hardened steel armour, pre-dreadnought battleships carried a main battery of very heavy guns in barbettes (open or with armoured gunhouses) supported by one or more secondary batteries of lighter weapons. They were powered by coal-fuelled triple-expansion steam engines.
SMS Hannover SMS "Hannover" ("His Majesty's Ship Hannover") was the second of five "Deutschland"-class pre-dreadnoughts of the German Imperial Navy ("Kaiserliche Marine"). "Hannover" and the three subsequently constructed ships differed slightly in both design and construction from the lead ship "Deutschland" in their propulsion systems and slightly thicker armor. "Hannover" was laid down in November 1904 and commissioned into the High Seas Fleet in October 1907; this was ten months after the revolutionary "all-big-gun" HMS "Dreadnought" was commissioned into the Royal Navy. As a result, "Hannover" was obsolete as a capital ship before she was even completed; "Dreadnought"' s more powerful main battery and higher speed would have made it unwise for a ship like "Hannover" to engage her in the line of battle. The ship was named after the Prussian province of Hannover, now in Lower Saxony.