Battleships of Germany
Brandenburg class - Pre-Dreadnoughts.
Kaiser Friedrich III class - Pre-Dreadnoughts.
Wittelsbach class - Pre-Dreadnoughts.
Braunschweig class - Pre-Dreadnoughts.
Deutschland class - Serving throughout World War I, Schleswig-Holstein also fired the some of the opening shots of World War II at Danzig.
Nassau class - Germany's first Dreadnoughts, the hexagonal turret arrangement provided redundancy, but wasted fire-power.
Helgoland class - Also using a hexagonal turret arrangement, the Helgoland class were larger to accommodate the heavier 12-inch guns of the main armament.
S.M.S. Von der Tann - Germany's first battle-cruiser was better armoured but more lightly armed than the British Invincible class. She was also Germany's first capital ship fitted with Turbines.
Kaiser class - All survived World War I and all were scuttled at Scapa Flow in 1919.
König class - Like the Kaiser class, all survived World War I and all were scuttled at Scapa Flow in 1919.
Moltke class - During World War I battle-cruiser S.M.S. Moltke fought at Jutland, whilst S.M.S. Goeben served with the Turkish navy.
S.M.S. Seydlitz - A lengthened and improved version of the Moltke class battle-cruisers.
Derfflinger class - Germany's first battle-cruisers to mount a 12-inch main armament. S.M.S. Derfflinger was the first German capital ship fitted with 88mm anti-aircraft guns.
Bayern class - The only 15-inch gunned ships of the High Seas Fleet.
Deutschland class - The famous 'pocket battleships'. They were termed so because of the size of armament shipped on such a small displacement.
Scharnhorst class - Somewhat under-armed for their displacement (partly due to political considerations), plans to up-gun the Scharnhorst class from nine 11-inch to six 15-inch guns were never realised.
Bismarck class - The only 15-inch gunned ships of the Kriegsmarine and the last German battleships.
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