List of battleships of Germany
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This is a list of battleships of Germany.
Ships launched in the 1891-1908 are pre-dreadnoughts. This type was made obsolescent when HMS Dreadnought was launched in 1906. Later ships are dreadnoughts, which featured a uniform main armament and smaller intermediate guns.
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[edit] Brandenburg class
- Displacement: 10,060 tons
- Armament: 4 × 28 cm (11 inch) guns; 18 × 15 cm guns; 12 × 8.8 cm guns; 12 x machine guns; 6 × 45 cm torpedo tubes
- Armor: 300 mm belt; 230 mm turret; 75 mm deck
- Propulsion: 10,000 hp (17 knots)
- Endurance 4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km) at 10 knots (20 km/h)
- Units: 4: SMS Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm, SMS Brandenburg, SMS Weißenburg, and SMS Wörth
- Commissioned: 1893-94
[edit] Kaiser Friedrich III class
- Displacement: 10,790 tons
- Armament: 4 × 28 cm (11") guns; 18 × 15 cm guns; 12 × 8.8 cm guns; 12 x machine guns; 6 × 45 cm torpedo tubes
- Armor: 300 mm belt; 250 mm turret; 75 mm deck
- Propulsion: 14,000 hp (18 knots)
- Endurance: 4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km) at 10 knots (20 km/h)
- Units: 5: SMS Kaiser Friedrich III, SMS Kaiser Wilhelm II, SMS Kaiser Wilhelm der Große, SMS Kaiser Karl der Große, and SMS Kaiser Barbarossa
- Commissioned: 1898-1902
[edit] Wittelsbach class
- Displacement: 11,800 tons
- Armament: 4 × 28 cm (11") guns; 18 × 15 cm guns; 12 × 8.8 cm guns; 14 x machine guns; 5 × 45 cm torpedo tubes
- Armor: 230 mm belt; 250 mm turret; 75 mm deck
- Propulsion: 15,000 hp (18 knots)
- Endurance: 5,000 nautical miles (9,000 km) at 10 knots (20 km/h)
- Units: 5: SMS Wittelsbach, SMS Wettin, SMS Zähringen, SMS Schwaben, and SMS Mecklenburg
- Commissioned: 1902-04
[edit] Braunschweig class
- Displacement: 13,200 tons
- Armament: 4 × 28 cm (11") guns; 14 × 17 cm guns; 18 × 8.8 cm guns; 4 x machine guns; 6 × 45 cm torpedo tubes
- Armor: 220 mm belt; 250 mm turret; 75 mm deck
- Propulsion: 16,000 hp (18 knots)
- Endurance: 5,200 nautical miles (9,600 km) at 10 knots (20 km/h)
- Units: 5: Braunschweig, SMS Elsaß, SMS Hessen, SMS Preußen, and SMS Lothringen
- Commissioned: 1904-06
[edit] Deutschland class
- Displacement: 13,200 tons
- Armament: 4 × 28 cm (11") guns; 14 × 17 cm guns; 20 × 8.8 cm guns; 4 x machine guns; 6 × 45 cm torpedo tubes
- Armor: 230 mm belt; 280 mm turret; 75 mm deck
- Propulsion: 16,000 hp (18 knots)
- Endurance: 5,500 nautical miles (10,200 km) at 10 knots (20 km/h)
- Units: 5: SMS Deutschland, SMS Hannover, SMS Pommern, SMS Schleswig-Holstein, and SMS Schlesien
- Commissioned: 1906-08
[edit] Nassau class
- Displacement: 18,900 tons
- Armament: 12 × 28 cm (11") guns; 12 × 15 cm guns; 16 × 8.8 cm guns; 6 × 45 cm torpedo tubes
- Armor: 290 mm belt; 280 mm turret; 100 mm deck
- Propulsion: 22,000 hp (19.5 knots)
- Endurance: 9,400 nautical miles (17,400 km) at 10 knots (20 km/h)
- Ships in class: 4: SMS Nassau, SMS Westfalen, SMS Rheinland, and SMS Posen
- Commissioned: 1908
[edit] Helgoland class
- Displacement: 22,800 tons
- Armament: 12 × 30.5 cm (12") guns; 14 × 15 cm guns; 8 × 8.8 cm guns; 6 × 50 cm torpedo tubes
- Armor: 300 mm belt; 280 mm turret; 100 mm deck
- Propulsion: 28,000 hp (20 knots)
- Endurance: 5,500 nautical miles (10,200 km) at 10 knots (20 km/h)
- Ships in class: 4: SMS Helgoland, SMS Ostfriesland, SMS Thüringen, and SMS Oldenburg
- Commissioned: 1911
[edit] Kaiser class (1911)
- Displacement: 24,380 tons
- Armament: 10 × 30.5 cm (12") guns; 14 × 15 cm guns; 8 × 8.8 cm guns; 5 × 50 cm torpedo tubes
- Armor: 350 mm belt; 300 mm turret; 75 mm deck
- Propulsion: 31,000 shp (21 knots) although 23+ knots on 50,000+ shp was achieved
- Endurance: 9,500 nautical miles (17,600 km) at 10 knots (or 7,900 nautical miles (14,600 km) at 12 knots)
- Ships in class: 5: SMS Kaiser, SMS Friedrich der Grosse, SMS Kaiserin, SMS König Albert, and SMS Prinzregent Luitpold
- Commissioned: 1912
- Fate: All scuttled at Scapa Flow
[edit] König class
- Displacement: 25,390 tons
- Armament: 10 × 30.5 cm (12") guns; 14 × 15 cm guns; 10 × 8.8 cm guns; 5 × 50 cm torpedo tubes
- Armor: 350 mm belt; 350 mm turret; 100 mm deck
- Propulsion: 31,000 shp (21 knots)
- Endurance: 10,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) at 10 knots (or 8,000 nautical miles (15,000 km) at 12 knots)
- Ships in class: 4: SMS König, SMS Großer Kurfürst, SMS Markgraf, and SMS Kronprinz Wilhelm
- Commissioned: 1914
- Fate: All scuttled at Scapa Flow
[edit] Bayern class
- Displacement: 28,000 tons
- Armament: 8 × 38 cm (15") guns; 16 × 15 cm guns; 2 × 8.8 cm guns; 5 × 60 cm torpedo tubes
- Armor: 350 mm belt; 350 mm turret; 120 mm deck
- Propulsion: 52,000 shp (22 knots)
- Endurance: 9,000 nautical miles (17,000 km) at 10 knots (20 km/h)
- Ships in class: 4: SMS Bayern, SMS Baden, SMS Sachsen, and SMS Württemberg
- Commissioned: Two ships commissioned 1916
- Fate: Two cancelled before completion, one scuttled at Scapa Flow
[edit] Scharnhorst class
- Displacement: 38,900 tons
- Armament: 9 × 28 cm (11") guns; 12 × 15 cm guns; 14 × 10.5 cm guns; 16 × 3.7 cm AA guns; 10 × 2 cm AA guns
- Armor: 350 mm belt; 340 mm turret; 110 mm deck
- Propulsion: 160,000 shp (32 knots)
- Endurance: 8,380 nautical miles (15,520 km) at 15 knots (or 7,100 nautical miles (13,100 km) at 19 knots)
- Ships in class: 2: Gneisenau and Scharnhorst
- Commissioned: 1938
- Fate: Both lost in WWII
[edit] Bismarck class
- Displacement: 41,700 tons
- Armament: 8 × 38 cm (15") guns; 12 × 15 cm guns; 16 × 10.5 cm guns; 16 × 3.7 cm AA guns; 20 × 2 cm AA guns
- Aircraft: 4 × catapult-launched float-planes
- Armor: 320 mm belt; 360 mm turret; 120 mm deck
- Propulsion: 150,170 shp (30 knots)
- Endurance: 9,280 nautical miles (17,190 km) at 16 knots (or 6,640 at 24 knots)
- Ships in class: 2: Bismarck and Tirpitz
- Commissioned: 1940
- Fate: Both lost in WWII
[edit] H class
- Displacement: 52,560 tons
- Armament: 8 × 16 in (406 mm) guns; 12 × 15 cm guns; 16 × 10.5 cm guns; 6 × 21 cm torpedo tubes
- Aircraft: 6 × catapult-launched float-planes
- Armor: 327 mm belt; 390 mm turret; 120 mm deck
- Propulsion: 165,000 shp (30 knots)
- Endurance: 16,000 nautical miles (30,000 km) at 19 knots (35 km/h)
- Ships in class: 2 laid down, plus 4 planned
- Fate: Production cancelled 1941
