König Class Battleship (1913)

The British inspected some of these ships after the Armistice (officers of Royal Oak were able to inspect a semi-sanitized Markgraf, ditto Royal Sovereign visited Kronprinz Wilhelm). Their reports, obtained from three separate sourcescontained the following information.

Overview of 4 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name	Builder	Laid Down	Launched	Completed	Fate
Großer Kurfürst	Germaniawerft, Kiel	Oct, 1911	5 May, 1913	30 Jul, 1914	Scuttled 21 Jun, 1919
König	Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven	Oct, 1911	1 Mar, 1913	10 Aug, 1914	Scuttled 21 Jun, 1919
Kronprinz	Germaniawerft, Kiel	Nov, 1911	21 Feb, 1914	8 Nov, 1914	Scuttled 21 Jun, 1919
Markgraf	AG Weser, Bremen	Nov, 1911	4 Jun, 1913	1 Oct, 1914	Scuttled 21 Jun, 1919

Turrets

TODO: Plate 6.

The turrets trained electrically and used hydraulics for elevating gear, rammers and breech blocks. A fallback to hand working was available. A pair of 3 cylinder pumps of 6-8 HP supplied hydraulic power. Each gun had two recoil cylinders and a pneumatic cylinder to return the gun to battery.

Elevation was by a single hydraulic cylinder

See Also

• Wikipedia
• 3D Model available for licensing

Bibliography

• Grießmer, Axel (1999). Linienschiffe der Kaiserlichen Marine 1906-1918: Konstructionen zwischen Rüstungskonkurrenz und Flottengesetz. Bonn: Bernard & Graefe Verlag. ISBN 3-7637-5985-9.