In the evening, around 18:30, the Grand Fleet at last arrive for a sowdown, deployed to cross Scheer’s “T” from the northeast. We lowered their superstructures, their funnels, lightened their military masts, we removed 4 pieces of 150 mm in barbettes to replace them by 4 pieces of 88 mm, which were all also placed on the superstructure, just as we deposited the TLT of stern.The Wilhelm II was until 1906 the flagship of the Hochseeflotte at Kiel, but in 1914, these ships were in second line. They had been ordered in the law of 1898 instituted by Von Tirpitz then Minister of the Navy. These German battleships formed a squadron, the 1st, commanded by Vice Admiral Von Lanz, with the four units of the Nassau class. In 1890, there was little concern for the German Navy, let alone for German battleships. They arrived long after the completion of HMS Dreadnought, and had a configuration of 6 turrets, including 4 central, still equipped with 28 cm guns. He desperately tried to convince the naval command as well, and ultimately won. This was 8in-5.5in with 3.2in roof, and both ships are shown with all barbettes 1.6in behind the 14in belt, and with the armour deck 2in over some areas amidships.In Sachsen the centre shaft was to be diesel-powered and the two outer steam with 3 oil- and 6 coal-fired boilers and 2 sets of turbines in 4 engine rooms, while in Württemberg there were 3 oil- and 9 coal-fired boilers with 3 sets of turbines in 6 engine rooms.

They were to be followed by the L20 Alpha class (unnamed) in 1917, equipped with massive 42 cm guns. In fact they produced few tangible results and were completely dumb-founded by the arrival of the HMS dreadnought.Writings were on the wall, notably due to Cuniberti’s writings in the widely known Jane’s of 1903, but indeed Fisher’s correspondence was secret and his creation in January 1905 of a “Committee on Designs” too. Two 88 mm AA guns were added, they were lengthened to 86.5 m, re-equipped with new boilers giving them two funnels, the tonnage jumped to 4,158 tons. Divers in the meantime found some attraction there.The Bayern class represented the peak of German WW1 battleships of the Dreadnought type. Range was to be 2000nm at 12kts on diesel alone.This design, dated 2 October 1917, was selected from a number of fast battleship and battlecruiser designs for construction on 11 September 1918, though by this time there was no chance of them ever being built.The 14in belt armour extended from a little forward of the fore barbette to a little abaft the after one, and from 77in above lwl to 14in below. They were completed and accepted for service in 1906-08, when the first Dreadnoughts appeared. The design was selected on 2 October 1917, and construction was to have started 11 September 1918.The two ships were laid down in 1935, launched in late 1936, and commissioned into the German fleet by early 1939. However, in World of Warships that is a minor problem.

The This was not the last class of ww1 German battleships however. In 1914, these eight ageing ships made the VIth Wing of Rear-Admiral Eckermann, Hochseeflotte.In 1915 they were retrograded as local coastguards until 1916 when they were disarmed (their guns were transferred to the front). Until 1917 they remained inactive, removed from the Hochseeflotte, their crews needed elsewhere, and outside Deutschland scrapped in 1920, they formed the heart of the naval force of the interwar Weimar’s Reichsmarine. At 18:55, he made another turn to attack the British fleet, with his famous ‘night cruising order.’ He took the initiative to avoid a night fighting and avoid to be cut off, but this manoeuver put Scheer’s fleet in a precarious position.Nevertheless, Jellicoe turned his fleet south to try to cross Scheer’s “T.” again, followed, by a charge by Hipper’s mauled battlecruisers, which paid dearly. On the ancient side, the oldest post-German unification (1870), so non-Prussian battleships were discarded and were used in menial roles in WW1 (see above).Their dimensions allowed only a modest armament, and they were comparable to the coastal battleships and monitors developed by the Scandinavian navies at the time. BY TYPE. However, contrary to the The designed armament unchanged except that the 38cm mountings were Drh C/1914 with 20° elevation, and TT would certainly have been reduced to 3. They were also heavier and much wider. They did not have any opportunity to fight thereafter until sent to Scapa Flow after the armistice where they were scuttled on June 21, 1919.The 4 German battleships of the König class (King) (König, Grosser Kurfurst, Markgraf, Kronprinz) were an evolution of the previous design but their main innovation laid in the arrangement of their five turrets, one axial and the others superimposed aft and fore, which was done in other navies. Gardiner, Conway’s all the world’s fighting ship 1860-1905, 1906-1921The first date is about coastal battleships of the “Norse” serie, and late date for ships uncompleted like the Sachsen class and projects cancelled at the end of the war, such as the L20 alpha class (project of October 1917, ordered 11 September 1918).