König Class Battleship (1913)
From The Dreadnought Project
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,[1] obtained from three separate sources[2]contained the following information.
| Overview of 4 vessels | |||||
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| 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.[3]
Elevation was by a single hydraulic cylinder
Fire Control
See Also
Footnotes
Bibliography
- Grießmer, Axel (1999). Linienschiffe der Kaiserlichen Marine 1906-1918: Konstructionen zwischen Rüstungskonkurrenz und Flottengesetz. Bonn: Bernard & Graefe Verlag. ISBN 3-7637-5985-9.
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