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The list of ships of the Imperial German Navy includes all ships commissioned into service with the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) of Germany, covering the period from 1871, the creation of the German Empire, through to the end of the Empire in 1918. Capital ships. Ironclad warships.
The two Scharnhorst-class battleships were the first capital ships built for the Kriegsmarine after the end of World War I. They marked the beginning of German naval rearmament after the Treaty of Versailles. [76] The class comprised two vessels: Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.
This category is for naval ships designed, built, or operated by Germany during World War I (1914–1918).
The origins of German WW1 battleships like in order fleets went back to the invention of the sea-going Ironclad in 1859. The Prussian Navy before Bismarck’s effort for unification and Franco-Prussian war counted screw corvettes and gunboats, but none was armoured.
This section is dedicated to World War I Warships of all fleets, covering all the belligerents in 1914 and operations during the four years between the assassination of the Archduke of Austria in August 1914 to the Armistice in November 1918.
World War I: torpedo boat German torpedo boats assembled at port during World War I. In August 1914 Great Britain, with 29 capital ships ready and 13 under construction, and Germany, with 18 and nine, were the two great rival sea powers.
The Hochseeflotte, literally “High Seas Fleet”, was the main battle fleet, part of the larger Kaiserliches Marine (lt. “Imperial Navy”), instrument of Kaiser Wilhelm II, well served by Grand Admiral Von Tirpitz, to secure and keep a colonial empire and to defiantly oppose the major traditional naval powers of the time, Britain, France ...
The German Navy of World War 1 held a reign spanning 1871 to the close of The Great War which came in 1918. There are a total of [ 20 ] WW1 German Warships entries in the Military Factory. Entries are listed below in alphanumeric order (1-to-Z).
The Bismarck was a German battleship, the largest and most powerful capital ship in the Kriegsmarine. For all its weaponry and armour, the ship was involved in only one major operation which, after the sinking of the British battlecruiser Hood, ended in the Bismarck 's destruction in the North Atlantic by a large British force on 27 May 1941.
Germany entered the First World War as one of the era’s mightiest military powers. In 1914, Germany’s understanding of war was strongly influenced by four decades of peace and by its geostrategic situation. The army’s and navy’s expectations and operational preparations shared little common ground.