SMS Friedrich der Grosse
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| Career | Missing image Kaiserliche_Kriegsflagge.png KLM ensign |
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| Laid down: | January 1910 |
| Launched: | 10 June 1911 |
| Commissioned: | 15 October 1912 |
| Fate: | scuttled |
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| Propulsion: | 3 shaft Parsons/AEG-Curtis/Schichau turbines, 31,000 shp |
| Speed: | 21 kts |
| Complement: | 41 officers and 1043 enlisted men |
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SMS Friedrich der Grosse was a Kaiser-class battleship of the Imperial German Navy.
She was built at Hamburg, launched on 10 June 1911, and commissioned on 15 October 1912. She became the flagship of the Hochseeflotte (High Seas Fleet) until 14 March 1917, participating in the Battle of Jutland. She was scuttled at Scapa Flow in the Orkneys on 21 June 1919, and subsequently broken up for scrap on-site (the other four Kaiser class ships were 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.