Nassau-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Helgoland-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Kaiser-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Torpedo net sketch dated 15 November 1913. Bundesarchiv RM-3-322
Part of Helgoland-class consisting of the Helgoland, Ostfriesland, Oldenburg and Thüringen built between 1908-1912 and in service between 1912-1920 (1921), preceded by Nassau-class succeeded by Kaiser-class.
Deutschland-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Nassau-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Helgoland-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Torpedo net sketches dated 15 November 1913. Bundesarchiv RM-3-322
Nassau-class consisting of the Nassau, Westfalen, Rheinland and Posen built between 1907-1910 and commissioned between 1909-1919, preceded by Deutschland-class succeeded by Helgoland-class.
Helgoland-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Torpedo net sketch dated August 1912. Bundesarchiv RM-3-322
Kaiser-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
König-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Part of Kaiser-class preceded by Helgoland-class succeeded by König-class. Ordered under contract name Ersatz Hildebrand, laid down by Kaiserliche Werft, Kiel, Germany in December 1909, launched on 22 March 1911, commissioned on 1 August 1912, scuttled at Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919, raised in 1929 and broken up in 1930.
SMS Von der Tann. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Torpedo net sketch dated August 1912. Bundesarchiv RM-3-322
SMS Seydlitz. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.co
Molte-class consisted of the Moltke and Goeben preceded by SMS Von der Tann and succceeded by SMS Seydlitz.
SMS Moltke, contract awarded under conaarct name “Cruiser G”on 17 September 1908, laid down by Blohm&Voss, Hamburg, Germany on 23 January 1909, launched on 7 April 1910, commissioned on 30 September 1911, scuttled at Scape Flow on 21 June 1919, raised in 1927 and broken up between 1927-1929.
SMS Goeben, ordered under contract name “H” on 8 April 1909, laid down by Blohm&Voss, Hamburg, Germany on 12 August 1909, launched on 28 March 1911, commissioned on 2 July 1912, transferred to the Ottoman Empire on 16 August 1914, renamed Yavuz Sultan Selim, renamed TCG Yavuz in 1936, decommissioned on 20 December 1950, stricken on 14 November 1954 and broken up between 1973-1976.
SMS Von der Tann. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Torpedo net sketch dated August 1912. Bundesarchiv RM-3-322
Moltke-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Nassau-class battleships. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Preceded by Moltke-class. Kaiser Wilhelm II ordered on 17 May 1906 a design competition for a fast battleship with a minimum of4-28cm/11” guns using the Nassau-class battleships design as basis, laid down at the shipyard of Blohm&Voss, Hamburg, Germany on 21 March 1908, launched on 20 March 1909, commissioned on 1 September 1910, interned after the First World War at Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands, Scotland but scuttled by her own crew to prevent that she fell into British hands on 21 June 1919 and in the 1930s raised and broken up at Rosyth between 1931-1934. Her homeport was Kiel, Germany.
German Scharnhorst-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
German SMS Blücher. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Torpedo net sketch Bundesarchiv RM-3-322
British Invincible-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Preceded by Scharnhorst-class. Designed as an answer to the British battle cruisers of the Invincible-class but in fact no match for the successors of the armoured cruisers. It became just after the building was ordered clear that these British battle cruisers were armed with 8-30,5 cm guns and not as earlier was believed 6/8-23cm guns. Ordered as the ‘E’ after the authorisation by the Reichstag on 26 May 1906 of the needed budget, was she laid down on 21 February 1907 at the Kaiserliche Werft at Kiel, Germany, launched on 11 April 1908 and commissioned on 1 October 1909 and sunk during the battle of Dogger Bank against British naval forces on 24 January 1915.
