SMS Kaiser (1911)

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Career	Image:Kaiserliche Kriegsflagge.png
Image:SMS Kaiser.jpg
Ordered:
Laid down:	December 1909
Launched:	22 March 1911
Commissioned:	1 August 1912
Fate:	scuttled at Scapa Flow 21 June 1919
General characteristics
Displacement:	24,724 tonnes (designed) 27,000 tonnes (maximum)
Length:	172.4 metres (568.92 feet)
Beam:	29.0 metres (95.7 feet)
Draft:	9.1 metres (30 feet)
Propulsion:	3 shaft Parsons turbines, 31,000 shp; 3 propellers, 3.75 meter diameter
Steering:	2 rudders, side-by-side
Speed and Range:	Maximum Speed 21.0 knots; Range 7,900 nautical miles at 12 knots
Complement:	41 officers and 1043 enlisted men
Armament:	10 x 305mm (12")/50 calibre in 5 dual turrets 14 x 150mm (5.9")/45 caliber in single casement mounts 12 x 88mm (3.5")/45 calibre anti-torpedo-boat/ant-aircraft guns in single mounts 5 x 50cm torpedo tubes (all underwater - one in the bow, two mounted on each side - one just forward of turret "Anton", one aft of turret "Dora")

SMS Kaiser was the name ship of the Kaiser class of battleships of the German Kaiserliche Marine (German Imperial Navy) in World War I.

She was built at Kiel, was launched on 22 March 1911 and commissioned on 1 August 1912. She fought at the Battle of Jutland as part of the Hochseeflotte (High Seas Fleet) and at the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight 1917.

After the end of WWI, she was interned with almost all the remaining ships of the High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow in the Orkneys. On 21 June 1919, her German crew scuttled her -- as did he crews of all the other ships in the fleet. The wreck was subsequently raised and broken up at Rosyth between 1929 and 1937.

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