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The German navies—specifically the Kaiserliche Marine and Kriegsmarine of Imperial and Nazi Germany, respectively—built a series of battleships between the 1890s and 1940s. To defend its North and Baltic Sea coasts in wartime, Germany had previously built a series of smaller ironclad warships , including coastal defense ships , and armored ...
This is a list of battleships of the First World War. All displacements are at standard load, in metric tonnes, so as to avoid confusion over their relative displacements. [Note: Not all displacements have been adjusted to match this yet]. Ideally displacements will be as they were at either the end of the war, or when the ship was sunk.
Pages in category "World War I battleships of Germany" The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
As was usual for German battleships of the period, the Kaiser class mounted main guns that were smaller than those of their British rivals: 30.5 cm (12 in), compared to the 34.3 cm (13.5 in) guns of the British Orion class. [1] All five ships saw action in the North Sea during the war; they served together as VI Division of III Battle Squadron.
Naval warfare in World War I was mainly characterised by blockade. The Allied powers, with their larger fleets and surrounding position, largely succeeded in their blockade of Germany and the other Central Powers, whilst the efforts of the Central Powers to break that blockade, or to establish an effective counter blockade with submarines and commerce raiders, were eventually unsuccessful.
This category is for naval ships designed, built, or operated by Germany during World War I (1914–1918). Subcategories This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total.
In the Imperial German Navy, there was no clear distinction between torpedo boats and torpedo boat destroyers, which were all numbered in the same series, the number being preceded by a letter that represented the building contractor. A new numbering series began in 1911; hence years of construction are appended in brackets below, to ...
Pages in category "Naval battles of World War I involving Germany" The following 57 pages are in this category, out of 57 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .