SMS Kaiser

Scuttled

Type	Dreadnought battleship
Class	Kaiser
War	First World War
Main guns	10 × 12″ guns

Fought at Jutland and at the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight. Interned at Scapa Flow after the armistice and scuttled there by her crew on 21 June 1919.

For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Linienschiff "SMS Kaiser" Großlinienschiff (Schlachtschiff) "S.M.S. Kaiser" in See. Ansicht der Backbordseite Photo: UnknownUnknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

10 × 30.5 cm (12 in) SK L/50 guns
14 × 15 cm (5.9 in) SK L/45 guns
12 × 8.8 cm (3.5 in) SK L/45 guns
5 × 50 cm (19.7 in) torpedo tubes

Armour

Belt 350 mm (13.8 in)
Conning tower: 400 mm (15.7 in)
Turrets: 300 mm (11.8 in)

Builder	Kaiserliche Werft, Kiel
Laid down	December 1909
Launched	22 March 1911
Commissioned	1 August 1912
Displacement	Normal: 24,724 t (24,334 long tons) Full load: 27,000 t (27,000 long tons)
Length	172.40 m (565 ft 7 in)
Speed	23.4 knots (43.3 km/h; 26.9 mph)

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

22 March 1911

Battle of Jutland

Survived

31 May – 1 June 1916

Second Battle of Heligoland Bight

Survived

17 November 1917

Fate

Scuttled

Scuttled at Scapa Flow, 21 June 1919