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| Career |  |
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| Builder: | Vulcan AG |
| Laid down: | 26 January 1910 |
| Launched: | 10 June 1911 |
| Commissioned: | 15 October 1912 |
| Fate: | Scuttled 21 June |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 24,724 tonnes (design)/27,000 tonnes (maximum) |
| Length: | 172.4 m (568.92 feet) overall |
| Beam: | 29.0 m (95.7 feet) |
| Draft: | 9.1 m (30.0 feet) |
| Propulsion: | 3 shaft AEG-Curtis turbines, 42,181 shp; three 3-blade propellers, 3.75 m diameter |
| Speed: | 22 knots |
| Range: | 7,900 st. mi. at 12 knots |
| Complement (as designed): | 41 officers, 1043 enlisted men |
| Armament: | 10 × 30.5 cm (12 in)/50 calibre guns in 5 twin turrets 14 × 15 cm (5.9 in)/45 caliber guns in single casement mounts 12 × 8.8 cm (3.5 in)/45 calibre guns in single mounts 5 × 50 cm underwater torpedo tubes |
SMS Friedrich der Große was a Kaiser class battleship built in Germany prior to World War I which served in the High Seas Fleet of the German Imperial Navy during that war.
The second of five ships in her class, she was built by Vulcan AG at
Hamburg, launched on 10 June 1911, and commissioned on 15 October 1912.
Friedrich der Große, named after King Friedrich II of Prussia, commonly
known as Frederick the Great, was assigned to the 3rd Battleship Squadron, along with her sisters, and she served as flagship of
the Hochseeflotte (High Seas Fleet) until 14
March 1917. The ship participated in a number of fleet operations in 1914 and 1915, and in
1916, under Admiral Reinhard Scheer, led the German fleet in the Battle of Jutland. Following Jutland, the German fleet rarely ventured from its ports, so that the
ship's subsequent career was rather uneventful, comprising occasional sorties into the North
Sea, operations in the
Following the armistice at the end of World War I, the
ship, along with the entire rest of the High Seas Fleet, was interned at Scapa Flow, where
she was scuttled by her crew on 21 June
Earlier Namesake
The first German navy vessel to carry the same name was the armored frigate SMS Friedrich der Große, launched in 1874.
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 1912
- List of shipwrecks in 1919
External links
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| Preceded by: Helgoland class - Followed by: König class |
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