SMS Kaiser Super-Dreadnought Battleship (First Turbines!)
TURBINE REVOLUTION - 1912 Finally Superfiring! - 5 ships: SMS KAISER, SMS FRIEDRICH DER GROSSE (Jutland flagship!), SMS Kaiserin, SMS Prinzregent Luitpold, SMS König Albert. FIRST GERMAN TURBINE BATTLESHIPS! (Steam turbines, 46,000 shp, +64% power!). SUPERFIRING TURRETS! (Finally abandoned inefficient hexagonal layout!). 24,724 tons, 23.4 kts (+3 kts, +14% faster!), 10× 30.5cm guns in 5× twin superfiring turrets (1 bow, 2 wing en echelon, 2 stern superfiring!). Learned from Moltke battlecruiser design. Krupp armor (350mm belt, thickest yet!). ALL 5 FOUGHT JUTLAND (III Battle Squadron), FRIEDRICH DER GROSSE was HIGH SEAS FLEET FLAGSHIP (Admiral Scheer commanded from her!). All survived Jutland. ALL 5 SCUTTLED SCAPA FLOW (June 21, 1919, Rear Admiral von Reuter's mass scuttling protest!). REVOLUTIONARY!
Specifications
- Displacement (std)
- 24724 t
- Displacement (full)
- 27400 t
- Length
- 565.6 ft
- Beam
- 95.1 ft
- Crew
- 1084
- Ships built
- 5
- Commissioned
- 1912-1913
- Decommissioned
- 1919 (All scuttled at Scapa Flow!)
Performance
- Top speed
- 21 kn
- Range
- 7900 nm at 12 knots
Armament
- Main guns
- "10× 30.5cm SK L/50 guns" (5× twin turrets - SUPERFIRING!)
- Secondary guns
- 14× 15cm SK L/45 guns
- Torpedoes
- 5× 50cm torpedo tubes
Armor & Systems
- Belt
- 350mm (13.8 inches - THICKEST YET!)
- Deck
- 60mm
- Fire control
- Improved optical rangefinders, centralized fire control
In-Game
- Tier
- T3
- Game power
- 37.81
- Research cost
- 7,486
- Credit cost
- 26,467
Notable
- **FIRST GERMAN TURBINE BATTLESHIPS!** (Steam turbines!)
- **SUPERFIRING TURRETS!** (Finally abandoned hexagonal!)
- TURBINE REVOLUTION! (46,000 shp, +64% power over triple expansion!)
- 23.4 KNOTS! (+14% speed increase, +3 kts over Helgoland!)
- 24,724 tons standard (+8% over Helgoland)
- 5 ships built (Kaiser, Friedrich der Große, Kaiserin, Prinzregent Luitpold, König Albert)
- 10× 30.5cm guns in 5× twin turrets (1 bow + 2 wing + 2 superfiring stern!)
- Learned superfiring from Moltke battlecruiser design
- Turbine space savings enabled superfiring arrangement
- Krupp cemented armor (350mm belt, +17% thicker!)
- Commissioned 1912-1913 (Kaiser first: August 1, 1912)
- Laid down at Imperial Dockyard Kiel (March 1909)
- Launched March 22, 1911
- All 5 fought at Battle of Jutland (III Battle Squadron)
- Friedrich der Große: HIGH SEAS FLEET FLAGSHIP (Admiral Scheer)
- Friedrich der Große led German fleet at Jutland (May 31-June 1, 1916)
- All 5 survived Jutland with minor damage
- All 5 scuttled at Scapa Flow (June 21, 1919)
- Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter ordered mass scuttling
- Protest against Versailles Treaty and British seizure
- Friedrich der Große scuttled in 78 feet of water
- Most salvaged 1930s (Friedrich der Große raised 1937)
- Revolutionary design: turbines + superfiring = German super-dreadnoughts!