The Ships of Brawling Battleships Steel: Germany Battleship Kaiser

Laid down in October, 1909, launched on March 22, 1911 and commissioned on August 1, 1912, Kaiser carried a main armament of ten 12 inch main guns mounted two per turret; one centerline forward, two superfiring centerline aft and one wing turret on each side that could fire to both sides and forward and aft. This was a new gun arrangement for German battleships and allowed for a full broadside using every main gun on the ship. Kaiser was the name ship of a five-ship battleship class that was powered by coal-fired turbine engines that also had oil-fired supplementary burners. "Kaiser" is the German word for "King" and this ship was intended to honor Germany’s monarch. During the war, at the Battle of Jutland on May 31, 1916, she took two serious 12 inch hits from the Agincourt that were repaired by August 1916. After the Armistice, she was interned at Scapa Flow from November 24, 1918. In common with all the ships of her class interned there, Kaiser was scuttled on June 21, 1919. Salvaged during 1929, she was scrapped in 1930.

See other battlships: Friedrich der Grosse, Ostfriesland, Seydlitz