SMS KAISERIN

Career
Laid down:	July 1910
Launched:	11 November 1911
Commissioned:	14 May 1913
Fate:	Scuttled 21 June 1919
General Characteristics
Builder:	Howaldtswerke, Kiel
Displacement:	27,000 tons
Length:	172.4 m
Beam:	29.0 m
Draft:	9.1 m
Propulsion:	41,533 shp
Speed:	22 knots
Range:	7,900 st. mi. at 12 knots
Complement:	1,084
Armament:	10 × 30.5 cm guns 14 × 15 cm guns 8 × 8.8 cm guns 5 × 50 cm torpedo tubes

'SMS ''Kaiserin''' ("Empress") was a ''Kaiser'' class battleship built in Germany prior to World War I and which served in the High Seas Fleet of the German Imperial Navy during that war.
''Kaiserin'' was the third ship of five which comprised the ''Kaiser'' class and was the only vessel to be given the name SMS ''Kaiserin''. She was built by Howaldtswerke in Kiel
During the war, ''Kaiserin'' was assigned to the 3rd Battleship squadron along with its class-mates. The ship was interned at Scapa Flow until the scuttling of the fleet on 21 June 1919.
The wreck was raised and broken up in 1937.

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See also

★ List of German Imperial Navy ships

★ List of naval ships of Germany

★ List of ship launches in 1911

★ List of ship commissionings in 1913

★ List of shipwrecks in 1919

External links

★ MaritimeQuest image gallery