Helgoland-Class
Improved Dreadnoughts - Corrected Nassau's wing turret flaw with superfiring arrangement. 12× 30.5cm guns in 6 twin turrets (2 fore, 2 aft superfiring, 2 midships staggered). Still used reciprocating engines (not turbines). All fought at Jutland. SMS Ostfriesland sunk by Billy Mitchell bombers 1921 (proved air power could sink battleships).
Specifications
- Displacement (std)
- 22808 t
- Displacement (full)
- 24700 t
- Length
- 548.6 ft
- Beam
- 93.5 ft
- Crew
- 1113
- Ships built
- 4
- Commissioned
- 1911-1912
- Decommissioned
- 1919 (scuttled Scapa Flow)
Performance
- Top speed
- 20.5 kn
- Range
- 5500 nm at 12 knots
Armament
- Main guns
- 12× 30.5cm (12-inch) SK L/50
- Secondary guns
- 14× 15cm (5.9-inch) SK L/45
- Torpedoes
- 6× 50cm submerged
Armor & Systems
- Belt
- 300mm Krupp cemented
- Deck
- 55-65mm
- Fire control
- Manual optical rangefinders
In-Game
- Tier
- T3
- Game power
- 48.25
- Research cost
- 9,554
- Credit cost
- 33,775
Notable
- Superfiring turret arrangement
- 30.5cm (12-inch) guns matched British standard
- Abandoned Nassau's hexagonal layout