SMS Kaiser

SMS Kaiser was the name-ship of the Kaiser class of battleships of the Imperial German Navy.

She was built at Kiel and was launched on 22 March 1911 and commissioned on 1 August 1912. She fought at the Battle of Jutland as part of the Hochseeflotte (High Seas Fleet). She was scuttled at Scapa Flow in the Orkneys on 21 June 1919, and was subsequently salvaged and broken up at Rosyth between 1929 and 1937).

Specifications

• Displacement: 24,724 tonnes (designed) / 27,000 tonnes (maximum)
• Dimensions (meters): 172.4 (overall length) x 29.0 (beam) x 9.1 (depth)
• Dimensions (feet): 568.92 (overall) x 95.7 x 30.0
• Number of Shafts: 3
• Number of Propeller Blades: 3, 3.75m diameter
• Number of Rudders: 2 (side by side)
• Maximum Speed/Range: 21.0 knots / 7,900 nautical miles at 12 knots
• Main Battery: Ten 305mm (12")/50 calibre in 5 dual turrets
• Secondary Battery: Fourteen 150mm (5.9")/45 caliber in single casement mounts
• Anti-Torpedo Boat / Anti-Aircraft Battery: Twelve 88mm (3.5")/45 calibre in single mounts
• Torpedo Tubes: Five 50cm tubes (all underwater - one in the bow, two mounted on each side - one just forward of turret "Anton", one aft of turret "Dora")
• Complement as designed: 41 officers and 1043 enlisted men.