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==Service==
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''Großer Kurfürst'' was commissioned into the fleet on 6 May, 1878, but her career did not last the month, for on 31 May she was rammed by the {{DE-1KonigWilhelm}} in the Dover Straits during a visit by the German fleet to England.  She sank quickly owing to failure to seal her watertight bulkheads, and 269 of her crew were drowned.{{GronerWarships1|p. 6}}
''Großer Kurfürst'' was commissioned into the fleet on 6 May, 1878, but her career did not last the month, for on 31 May she was rammed by the {{DE-KonigWilhelm}} in the Dover Straits during a visit by the German fleet to England.  She sank quickly owing to failure to seal her watertight bulkheads, and 269 of her crew were drowned.{{GronerWarships1|p. 6}}


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S.M.S. Großer Kurfürst (1875)
Builder: Wilhelmshaven Dockyard[1][2]
Yard Number: 2[3]
Laid down: 1868[4]
Launched: 17 Sep, 1875[5]
Commissioned: 6 May, 1878[6]
Lost: 31 May, 1878[7]
Fate: Collision w/König Wilhelm

S.M.S. Großer Kurfürst was an ironclad turret ship completed for the Imperial German Navy in 1878.

Service

Großer Kurfürst was commissioned into the fleet on 6 May, 1878, but her career did not last the month, for on 31 May she was rammed by the König Wilhelm in the Dover Straits during a visit by the German fleet to England. She sank quickly owing to failure to seal her watertight bulkheads, and 269 of her crew were drowned.[8]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 244.
  2. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 5.
  3. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 5.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 244.
  5. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 6.
  6. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 6.
  7. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 6.
  8. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 6.

Bibliography

  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
  • Gröner, Erich (revised and expanded by Dieter Jung and Martin Maass) (1990). German Warships 1815-1945. Volume One: Major Surface Vessels. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.


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